Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

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"You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0252084837

ISBN13:9780252084836

Release Date:March 2020

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:292 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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