On the Line: Crossing Institutional Boundaries between Photojournalism and Photographic Art.

The author observes the fact that ""increasingly, art institutions have exhibited work done by photojournalists... and (likewise) photojournalists have come to embrace the art world''. The main questions posed by the author: ""What rationale enables art world members to open assiduously maintained boundaries to incorporate mass media images?'' and ""When photojournalism is reframed by the art world, what repercussions are felt within photojournalism?''. The rhetoric of several museum curators regarding these questions are examined, including Beaumont Newhall's chapter on photojournalism in his 1982 ""The History of Photography''; John Szarkowski's account in his ""From the Picture Press'', 1973; Adam Weinberg's ""On the Line: The New Color Photojournalism''; and William Manchester and Fred Ritchin for their big Magnum exhibition ""In Our Time'', 1989. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.


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