News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive
by: Burns, Stanley B.

Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop abd reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities.