Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 5:00pm

Rainey Auditorium
Penn Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Picturing the News, in Color

Vanessa Schwartz (History and Art History, University of Southern California)

For decades, journalistic objectivity was associated with black and white images.  In this fascinating history of photojournalism since the 1950s, visual studies scholar Vanessa Schwartz tracks the transition to the now-ubiquitous color news picture, with particular attention to the career of Magnum.