Words and Pictures

Wilson Hicks, who was the executive editor of Life during its most innovative period, uses this magazine as the model in his study of photojournalism. Written at the time when the methods of the “photojournalist” were dominant in the approach to photography, the author perceptively defines the attitudes toward words and pictures which have differentiated the field of magazine journalism from that of newspapers. The book is divided into four “What Is Photojournalism?,” “The Editor,” “The Photographer,” and “The Photograph.” The work of such photographers as Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Salomon, Atget, and Eliot Elisofan is discussed and reproduced.