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 | | Picture This!: The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures by Gary Haynes, Walter Cronkite (Contributor) ISBN-10: 9780821257586 ISBN-10: 0-8212-5758-7 ISBN-13: 9780821257586 ISBN-13: 978-0-8212-5758-6 Hardcover 2006-09-05 Bulfinch Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Written and compiled by a veteran United Press International photographer and editor, PICTURE THIS! tells the stories behind the stories--and how some of the most iconic and revealing news pictures of the late 20th century came to be. There are powerful photographs of the Civil Rights struggles, the Vietnam War, and great moments in sports, entertainment, and politics. PICTURE THIS! follows the development of the wire picture services, the storied competition between smaller but scrappier UPI and its far larger competitor, Associated Press, and how UPI's 11.5 million-picture library ended up in a Pennsylvania cave, owned by Bill Gates's Corbis. | ||
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And picture it you can! When a newspaper goes out of business, it's sometimes as if it never existed and everything it did is buried, rarely to be exhumed again unless it is some researcher. Wire service people have labored in obscurity for decades and only in recent decades have credit lines become common for photos in newspapers or other print sources. Even Magazine credits were sometimes astonishingly small. There is a UPI still in business, but it is unrelated to the great wire service that competed with the powerful Associated Press. But the photographs made by UPI photographers and others for UPI will live on in the Corbis library, much of it buried in cold underground storage. What this book has done is to reach down into that vault and pull out some of the more memorable pictures from the UPI days when it covered the world. The names of the photographers may not be familiar except to those in the trade, but they are among the best as these images demonstrate. An excellent book, well-written and well-edited. More please. | ||
A world of pictures If you like pictures - news pictures that tell a story even after 70 years - you'll love "Picture This! The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures." If you like good captions that flesh out the images with background information, you'll love Picture This!. The book of 238 black-and-white photographs, written and compiled by Gary Haynes with a foreword by Walter Cronkite, showcases the work of UPI's band of aggressive, talented and serious photojournalists who chronicled the life of the world in images that resonate even after 70 years. You'll recognize the world-famous photograph of a saluting John-John Kennedy following the funeral of his father and discover the photo of the Dionne quintuplets and the image of George H.W. Bush campaigning in a Chicago suburb. I have no vested interest in whether you buy Picture This! and never met Gary Hayes. But, I was a newsman with United Press International for 18 years in four states and I am, obviously, partial to UPI and have a sense of the toil and trouble UPI photographers encountered in chronicling news events. A word of warning, however. When you try leafing through this book with the intention of spending only a few minutes, you will find yourself stopping to peruse an image, reading a caption and re-discovering, and perhaps discovering, forgotten events. Invariably, you will ask yourself: What was I doing at that moment in time, captured by a UPI photojournalist. Unfortunately, Picture This! does not have the glitz and glitter of a huge table top book. Perhaps, however, that is the charm of a wire service book that underscores the art of black-and-white photographs and the talents of UPI photographers worldwide. These pictures and these photographers never tried to be pretty or charming, only tell a true, accurate story. | ||
An outstanding survey essential for any student of journalism. PICTURE THIS! THE INSIDE STORY AND CLASSIC PHOTOS OF UPI NEWSPICTURES comes from a veteran syndicate editor and photographer who pairs the best of UPI news photos with an insider's account of the stories behind them. But it's more than just a gathering of key photos linked to major news stories: it follows the wire service industry as a whole, providing a history of its development and evolution, competition with other news services, and how its library ended up in a Pennsylvania cave. An outstanding survey essential for any student of journalism. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch | ||
We lived through UPI's ups and downs My husband worked for UPI Newspictures from 1961 to l981 and shared the ups and downs of UPI and Gary Haynes has captured the story of the wonderful photographers and their work who were always out numbered by the AP and were able to compete and win many stories by sheer determination. UPI Newspictures had a great planner,Charley McCarty who out thought the oposition and two fantastic photo editors Ted Majeski and Larry Desantis who could find the best images on the film they edited. This books shows some of the photos they found on the film made by the hardworking photographers who never were willing to let the AP beat them. Thanks to Gary Haynes for putting it all in this book. | ||
All through the eye of a camera! We all take the camera for granted ;but someone having a camera availible at the right time and place;has meant that memorable moments and events have been recorded for posterity.There are many books that have tried to sum up the best photographs of the Century;some are very average,some are very good,and some are excellent;this one is that type. I often wondered which I would choose if I had to pick 3 favorite photographs.It is very difficult;but three that come to mind immediately,and I don't really know why,are; The Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima ,as the best photograph from the Second World War. Oswald being shot in Dallas,probably since iI saw it "live" on TV. and, Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to President Kennedy,again watched "live" on TV. Anyway those are my picks,but with a little more thought,I could think of others just as momentous;such as the collasping of the World Trade Center on 9/11;which I watched being built;when I worked in the next block at the corner of Broadway Ave. & Nassau St. UPI published many of the great photographs of the Century and if you've wondered what happened to all their 11.5 million photographs;they ended up in a cave in Pennsylvania,owned by Bill Gates's Corbus. Gary Haynes has put together this wonderful collection from these archives ,along with comments on the photographs,circumstances and photographers. In this large book of 256 pages and 238 B&W photographs, Haynes will enthrall you and bring back many memories. You'll remember seeing many of them,you may have even watched sone take place (live or on TV);and others will be new to you.But one thing is for sure,you'll enjoy this remarkable collection. Here are some of what is included; The Hindenbury exploding in 1937. Barrels of wine being dumped in the gutter in Los Angeles,in the 1920's. The KKK parade in Long Branch,NJ,on July 4,1924. Truman holding up the Chicago Times announcing "Dewey Defeats Truman" November 3,1948. People viewing John Dillinger on a slab,July,1934. Rare photograph of JFK in a hat;and not the top hat at the Inaugural. Hermann Goering ,accustomed to ostentatious luxury,eating from a tin plate during a break in his Neurenberg tria. JFK and Sinatra as best of pals. President Truman playing a tune with Lauren Bacall draped across the piano. Louis Armstrong serenading his wife Lillian in front of the Sphinx. and even some humor ,such as; Lee Travino ,emerging from a rough ,holding a large snake on the end of his club.Though it was a prank rubber snake,it always startled the bystanders. What a wonderful collection of photographs and many thanks to both Haynes for putting them together and least, but not all,to the photographers who took them. | ||