Written and compiled by a UPI photographer and editor, Picture This! tells the story behind the story--how some of the most iconic and telling news pictures of the late 20th C. came about-while also chronicling the major events of the period, from the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam to great moments in sports, entertainment and politics. The book is an insider's look at the development of the wire services, the competition between the small and scrappy UPI and its far larger competitor, Associated Press. Haynes has delved deep into the files, unearthing pictures that changed the world and many that resonate more today than when they were taken. He has contacted former UPI photographers, who contribute their "photo tales" describing the derring-do behind the fierce competition between UPI and AP. He has also tried to identify and credit pictures that originally ran with a simple UPI tagline. Picture This! puts a human face on the extraordinary underdog news service and its photographers who, working against the AP and the clock, took remarkable photos that helped shape a generation's view of American life.
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'Evans is not only a cracking storyteller, he has the rare ability to tell his tale with great vividness and simplicity, and descriptions of such neck-grabbing power that you feel you are sitting through a Hollywood blockbuster ... the reader is swept along by the sheer vigour of the narrative' Daily Mail ** 'A rich, imaginative, tragic and heroic tale, told unashamedly straight from the heart' Sunday Express ** 'His storytelling powers are some of the most compelling in print' Glamour
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Höhe: 220 mm
Breite: 254 mm
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978-0-8212-5758-6 (9780821257586)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Gary Haynes joined UPI in Detroit in 1958. By 1969 he was ass. managing editor of photography in New York and later that year was made a national picture editor for The NY Times. From inside UPI Haynes saw nearly every UPI picture to move on the network for close to 11 years.
