PHOTOJOURNALISM. Press Photography: Minnesota Since 1930, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1977. Softcover, 11 x 8 ½ inches, 68 pages, 88 halftone illustrations (some in color), with ephemera. Signed.
The catalog for a show of press photographs drawn from the morgues of about ten Minnesota newspapers. The pictures, arranged by topics such as people, sports, family, and the arts, cover the 1930s to seventies. Among the likely subjects are the politicians Eugene McCarthy and Hubert H. Humphrey; among the unlikely photographers is Weegee the Famous, who in 1950 talked his way into the women's dressing room of a downtown Minneapolis nightclub. Thomas F. Arndt was the Walker's staff photographer at the time and helped with the show. The essays are by newspaper editor Charles Bailey, photographer Mike Zerby, and Carroll T. Hartwell, curator of photography at the neighboring Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The catalog designer cleverly had a page of newsprint bound in, printed with the mastheads of Minnesota newspapers such as the Duluth Herald and St. Paul Pioneer Press. Laid in is a flyer for events that occurred during the show. This copy signed by Hartwell. Fine condition.

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