Author Description

"In this book, the birth and growth of photojournalism is brilliantly chronicled by a man who was a pioneer in the field when this new medium of mass communication was becoming established in Germany. The 135 illustrations include numerous reproductions from the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and Münchner Illustrierte Presse, and the work of such masters of photoreportage as Walter Bosshard, Erich Salomon, Wolfgang Weber, Martin Munkacsi, Willi Ruge, Alfred Eisenstaedt, André Kertesz, Umbo, and Harald Lechenperg."--Page 4 de la couverture.