THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOJOURALISM IN AMERICA ...
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THE ORIGINS OF PHOTOJOURALISM IN AMERICA by Michael L. Carlebach (Smithsonian Institution Press: $29.95; 194 pp . , paperback original). Carlebach argues that journalists in the United States began employing visuals to supplement their reportage decades before photographs could be published, through the use of engravings based on daguerreotypes. He supports his thesis with striking images of the Civil War, 19th-Century presidential elections and the settlement of the West. Meticulously documented but never pedantic, “The Origins of Photojournalism” will delight history and photography buffs.
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