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Pictures on a page: Photo-journalism, graphics and picture editing Paperback – January 1, 1997

by Harold Evans (Author)

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A collection of news photographs with first-hand accounts of how photography has given shape to important moments in modern history. Many leading photographers were interviewed for the book, which includes an analysis of how photographs are taken, selected and edited for newspapers and magazines.

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332 pages
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English
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Pimlico
Publication date

January 1, 1997
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8.46 x 0.98 x 10.59 inches
ISBN-10

0712673881
ISBN-13

978-0712673884
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pimlico; First Pimlico Printing edition (January 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 332 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0712673881
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0712673884
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.68 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.46 x 0.98 x 10.59 inches

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Harold Evans
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Harold Evans is the author of two critically acclaimed landmark histories of America: the New York Times bestseller "The American Century" and "They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators," selected by Fortune magazine on its own 75th anniversary as one of the best books of the previous 75 years. WGBH television made four documentaries based on Evans's work.
Evans first came to America in 1956 as a Harkness Fellow at the University of Chicago and Stanford University; he traveled through 40 states and reported for The Manchester Guardian his first-hand experiences of the civil rights battles in the Deep South. On his return, he became assistant editor of the sister paper, the Manchester Evening News, then editor of the leading provincial daily, The Northern Echo, where he succeeded in getting a resistant government to establish a life-saving program for the detection of cervical cancer, and won a royal pardon for a man wrongly executed for murder.
Appointed editor of the influential London Sunday Times in 1967 and then of The Times in 1981, Evans was voted by British journalists the greatest all-time editor and also awarded the European gold award for the investigations and campaigns he led: his Insight team exposed the spy Kim Philby, tracked the cause of the crash of a DC-10 airliner near Paris (then the world's most deadly crash), and won justice for the children affected by thalidomide.
Settling in America in 1982, after a famous battle with Rupert Murdoch, he was editorial director of US News & World Report, founding editor of Condé Nast Traveler, and president of Random House from 1990 to 1997. He remains a contributing editor of US News, is editor at large at The Week magazine, and is a frequent broadcaster on American affairs for the BBC.
In 2004 he was knighted for his service to journalism. He is now an American citizen who lives in New York with his wife, Tina Brown, and their son and daughter.
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Azlan

Photojournalist Bible.

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2013

I have owned this book for over 30 years now and it has been my photojournalistic bible.Evans gives great insight into approach,composition and the philosophy behind news subjects.It's filled with historical photos used in newspapers as far back as the 1940's.It has helped my approach 100% as I have been a Newspaper Photographer for the past 20 years. A must read!!

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Mike Russell

interesting book - great photographs

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2011

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I got this because it was on a blog as one of the great photography books of the 20th century, and hard to get. Seeing it on Amazon, I just had to give it a look see.

There are indeed some fantastic images, and the basic theme of the book: create the image with an eye to the image's ultimate use, is a valuable lesson that is seldom touched on. OTOH, most of the descriptive text is no longer as relevant, being aimed at markets, such as magazines, newspapers, and catalogs, that no longer exist, and is not easily.

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A. V. Baik

PUBLISHERS! REPUBLISH THIS BOOK!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2010

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This review doesn't have to be long because this book is the best book ever written about photojournalism. It is the most lucid, most intelligent, most passionate book that has ever been written about the place of pictures in giving an account of events. It is one of a series of books about journalism written nearly 40 years ago by the former editor of The Sunday Times - Sir Harold Evans. It is completely up-to-date and should be required reading for any new journalist or documentary camera-person working today.

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J Garcia-Chiesa

Learn from the masters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2012

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This is THE authoritative source collection of the most famous pictures, including before and after cropping. You never saw what the photographer and the camera had seen, what became famous pictures were artistically - and with editorial purpose - cropped images; learn how and why that was the case.

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Great book and great service

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2022

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Mrs. C. Wilson

Great Book and great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2012

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This book was recommended to me by an picture editor who has worked in the newspaper industry for longer than he would care to mention. Photo journalism at its best.

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jpm

Photojournalism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2013

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Excellent collection of news images with examples of good and bad processing - mainly cropping. Very useful reference book for photo composition and editting

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