New York Press Photographers (Images of America) - Softcover

Hermann, Marc A.

9781467133616: New York Press Photographers (Images of America)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467133612 ISBN 13: 9781467133616

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2015

New York City has earned its place as the media capital of the world, and its newspapers have chronicled life, death, triumph, and tragedy. While people like Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell, and Jimmy Breslin are remembered for how they wrote about the news, the people who documented it visually are mostly forgotten. For many decades, photographers who captured iconic images for New York's newspapers did so anonymously--picture credit lines were a rarity. This is the story of the people behind the pictures, a history of the historians. In 1915, a group of lensmen formed a fraternal organization to promote their craft and support one another through hardship. A century later, the New York Press Photographers Association (NYPPA) is regarded as the oldest press association in America, and it still advocates for its members in an ever-changing field. At work or at play, New York's photojournalists are hardly the nameless, faceless bunch history would have us believe them to be.

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Assembled by NYPPA historian and veteran photographer Marc A. Hermann, this collection of images, many from the association's own archives, shows that the cameras were often turned around, giving an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at how the news was covered.

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