Histories of the Press I – Picture Post and the Post War Settlement, Journalism and the 60s

#1 Picture Post Magazine

1938-1957 By 1943: 1,950,000 copies a week Stefan Lorant Tom Hopkinson (1940 ff) Edward G Hulton Bert Hardy Grace Robertson

1938-1957

By 1943: 1,950,000 copies a week

Stefan Lorant

Tom Hopkinson (1940 ff)

Edward G Hulton

Bert Hardy

Grace Robertson

Picture magazine Photojournalism The Leica Fast roll film

Picture magazine

Photojournalism

The Leica

Fast roll film

Journalism and photojournalism Wartime Britain The Home Guard ‘ What are we fighting for?’ Postwar Britain ‘ Homes fit for heroes’ The Beveridge Report – ‘Plan for Britain’ ‘ Britain’ Butskillism

Journalism and photojournalism

Wartime Britain

The Home Guard

‘ What are we fighting for?’

Postwar Britain

‘ Homes fit for heroes’

The Beveridge Report – ‘Plan for Britain’

‘ Britain’

Butskillism

Text does not exist outside practices Text/practices do not exist outside ideas Text/practices/ideas do not exist outside of time.

Text does not exist outside practices

Text/practices do not exist outside ideas

Text/practices/ideas do not exist outside of time.

#2 The new journalism

Tom Wolfe Hunter S Thompson Truman Capote Norman Mailer Michael Herr

Tom Wolfe

Hunter S Thompson

Truman Capote

Norman Mailer

Michael Herr

Scenes rather than historical narrative Dialogue in full. Conversation First-person point of view Author as participant Everyday details

Scenes rather than historical narrative

Dialogue in full. Conversation

First-person point of view

Author as participant

Everyday details

What can you find that is ‘new’ in the form and content of a piece of New Journalism?

What can you find that is ‘new’ in the form and content of a piece of New Journalism?

1963-1972 Camelot and JFK Bobby Kennedy Martin Luther King Watergate Black Panthers

1963-1972

Camelot and JFK

Bobby Kennedy

Martin Luther King

Watergate

Black Panthers

Pop Art LSD Stockhausen Earthrise 1968 Mariner 1965 Vietnam

Pop Art

LSD

Stockhausen

Earthrise 1968

Mariner 1965

Vietnam

Mai ’68 Czech Spring Chicago Democratic convention

Mai ’68

Czech Spring

Chicago Democratic convention

New ways of seeing – point of view New powers – the great American Novel, quotes Death of dreams – punctuation, language, accent

New ways of seeing – point of view

New powers – the great American Novel, quotes

Death of dreams – punctuation, language, accent