Stefan Lorant
Michael Hallett
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Description for Stefan Lorant
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 942.
Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant's work as a visual and literary editor allowed him to pioneer and develop the genré of picture-based journalism at a period that saw the emergence of modern mass communications. Lorant became a guiding force on an international scale, disseminating his ideas and political knowledge throughout Europe in the late-twenties and thirties by working in Hungary, Germany, and England. His innovative layouts, his "exclusive" interviews and his thirst for knowledge became a familiar part of millions of everyday lives, largely through the pages of his own creations and in particular the legendary Picture Post. Eventually his sphere of ... Read more
Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant's work as a visual and literary editor allowed him to pioneer and develop the genré of picture-based journalism at a period that saw the emergence of modern mass communications. Lorant became a guiding force on an international scale, disseminating his ideas and political knowledge throughout Europe in the late-twenties and thirties by working in Hungary, Germany, and England. His innovative layouts, his "exclusive" interviews and his thirst for knowledge became a familiar part of millions of everyday lives, largely through the pages of his own creations and in particular the legendary Picture Post. Eventually his sphere of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810856820
SKU
V9780810856820
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Ref
99-15
About Michael Hallett
Michael Hallett is a photographic historian, journalist and biographer. He is the author of Bullring: The Heart of Birmingham (2003, with Peter James) and The Real Story of Picture Post (1994, with layout by Stefan Lorant).
Reviews for Stefan Lorant
Stefan Lorant (1901-1997) started out as a filmmaker but later became a magazine editor in England and the US, giving Alfred Eisenstadt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, and Andre Kertesz some of their earliest assignments in that genre. (He also was jailed by Hitler in the 1930s and wrote a memoir of the experience.) Hallett, a photographic historian who is himself a ... Read more