Bain's New York: The City in News Pictures 1900-1925 (New York City) - Hardcover

Carlebach, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0486478580 ISBN 13: 9780486478586

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2012

Synopsis

"A generous sampling of photographs . . . includes wonderful spreads." — Brooklyn Daily Eagle
This original work of photojournalism history features over 100 images from the George Grantham Bain collection in the Library of Congress, a photographic repository of one of the United States' earliest news agencies. Based in New York City, the Bain News Service dealt in a worldwide array of photographs, many of which offer rare glimpses of a vanished era in Gotham history. Michael Carlebach, a leading historian of photojournalism, searched the archives to assemble the most dramatic and revealing images of the metropolis during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
These striking photos retain the immediacy and interest of the breaking news stories they accompanied: scenes of police activity and street life; activities related to immigration, politics, and public health; and portraits of children and celebrities. Topics range from everyday episodes to historic incidents, including the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. An informative Introduction offers background on the Bain News Service, and extensive captions describe the newsworthy events depicted in the photographs.

About this title

About the Author:

Historian and photographer Michael Carlebach was born in New York City and raised and educated in upstate New York. He is the author of several important books and essays on American photojournalism and documentary photography, including The Origins of Photojournalism in America and American Photojournalism Comes of Age (both by the Smithsonian Institution Press), and Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida (University of Florida Presses). A collection of his photographs of south Florida, Sunny Land: Pictures from Paradise, was published in 2010 by Safe Harbor Books. He and his wife, Margot Ammidown, now live in Asheville, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0486478580
• ISBN 13: 9780486478586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224