TY - BOOK ID - 50193577 TI - Public images : celebrity, photojournalism and the making of the tabloid press PY - 2018 SN - 9781474243964 1474243967 9781003103868 1003103863 9781474243971 9781000212228 100021222X 9781000213119 1000213110 9781000211450 1000211452 9781350171817 1474243975 1474243983 PB - New-York : Bloomsbury Academic, DB - UniCat KW - Photographic reportage KW - Photojournalism KW - Photographie de presse KW - Tabloid newspapers KW - Tabloïds KW - Social aspects KW - Aspect social. KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - Journal KW - Presse KW - Portrait KW - Photographie KW - Photographie de reportage KW - Image KW - Tabloïds UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50193577 AB - The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photojournalism, this book explores the origin of the unauthorised celebrity photograph in the early 20th century, tracing its rise in the 1900s through to the first legal trial concerning the right to privacy from photographers shortly after the Second World War. Packed with case studies from the glamorous to the infamous, the book argues that the candid snap was a tabloid innovation that drew its power from Britain's unique class tensions. Used by papers such as the Daily Mirror and Daily Sketch as a vehicle of mass communication, this new form of image played an important and often overlooked role in constructing the idea of the press photographer as a documentary eyewitness. From Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson to aristocratic debutantes Lady Diana Cooper and Margaret Whigham, the rage of the social elite at being pictured so intimately without permission was matched only by the fascination of working class readers, while the relationship of the British press to social, economic, and poltiical power was changed forever. Initially pioneered in the metropole, tabloid-style photojournalism soon penetrated the journalistic culture of most of the globe. This in-depth account of its social and cultural history is an invaluable source of new research for historians of photography, journalism, visual culture, media, and celebrity studies--back cover. ER -