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Kiosk: A History of Photojournalism 1839-1973 (Hardcover)

by Robert Lebeck (Author), Bodo von Dewitz (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Steidl; Bilingual edition (25 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 388243791X
  • ISBN-13: 978-3882437911
  • Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 25.4 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"First comes the photo, and then morality", "If your pictures aren't good, you haven't been close enough" - self-conscious and impolite, that's the way press photographers talk about their difficult trade. They are working at the front line not only in times of war, they condense contemporary history's events and everyday life situations, they tell stories in pictures which are meant to state what is essential on just a few pages. Photo journalism exists since 150 years. Even though its artistic ambitions often have to stand back, it is one of the most impressive chapters in the history of photography. What readers throw away after a short while, an observant contemporary has picked up and kept: photo journalist Robert Lebeck owns an important collection of magazines which documents the history of photojournalism. The illustrated broadsheet of famous photo reports extends from new railway stations in the 19th century to legendary photo series on the war in Vietnam, from Roger Fenton to Robert Capa, from the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung to USSR under Construction, from Life and Vu to Stern magazine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pictures on the page, 23 Jan 2003
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Robert Lebeck approaches photojournalism in a different way from other books on the subject, rather than show photos out of page context he has filled his fascinating book with the very spreads and pages that readers saw when they bought the magazines. You can see the pages (a lot smaller than the originals and with the white paper printed as a light sepia) with the headlines, intros, columns of text and of course the photos. The material comes from the author's huge collection of European and American news magazines, eighty-three are featured, starting with The Illustrated London News (I was the Art Editor of this publication in the late Sixties) from 1871 through to the Sunday Times from 1973.

Lebeck has selected hundreds of spreads to show how photojournalism developed but I think he has concentrated too much on various wars during the last hundred years though I will admit that these conflicts do give photographers the chance to show readers, at home, something that they would have no chance (or want) to experience. Amongst all the conflicts there are plenty examples of magnificent photojournalism, Eugene Smith's famous 1951 Spanish Village photo story from 'Life' magazine, here you can see how the ten pages were laid out rather than one or two photos from the seventeen used that most other photo books would use, the 1933 'USSR in Construction' magazine devoted forty pages to the construction of the White Sea Canal with photography by Alexander Rodchenko, twenty-two of these are shown with brilliant layouts also by Rodchenko, as well as filming the 1936 Olympics Leni Riefenstahl took the photos featured on nine pages from the famous French `L'Illusration' magazine.

The book is beautifully printed and laid out, basically in German but each of the nine chapters has the same text in English and all the captions are in both languages (unfortunately the English captions are in grey type which is a bit hard to read) but what is not translated (why not?) are nineteen pages of biographies of various photographers and photo editors. If this sort of book appeals to you have a look at these two, 'Century' by Bruce Bernard, a monumental news-photo collection in over eleven hundred pages. 'Life' magazine, which at its peak was selling eight and a half million copies a week (1968) has plenty of spreads shown in 'Kiosk' and more can be seen in 'Great Photographic Essays from Life' by Maitland Edey, it has twenty-two of the best photo stories and like 'Kiosk' reproduces the actual spreads but here they are the same size as they originally appeared. The Spanish Village is included and also the other famous photo Smith essay, Country Doctor from 1948.

'Kiosk' is a wonderful collection of photo stories and the author hopes to do a second volume covering photo books, like Robert Frank's 1958 'The Americans' or Dorothea Lange's 1939 'An American Exodus', much of what the he might include is shown (nicely as spreads again) in the stunning 'The Book of 101 Books: Seminal photographic books of the twentieth century' by Andrew Roth.

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