DOI Heft:
No. 64 (June, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Jenkins, Will: Illustration of the daily press in America, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22773#0283
A merican Press Illustrators
artists who have made it possible for the daily
press to become a field of pictorial expression; and
substituting insipid and misleading terms of photo-
graphy in place of really artistic work.
If the users of photographs base their claims on
their journalistic or news value, their argument will
not stand comparison with the results shown by the
artist journalist, who, with his facility in sketching,
can grasp more clearly, and set down his story
with more convincing force, than is possible to any
photographer. Moreover, he possesses that most
Valuable power, the elimination of unimportant
detail and of adding emphasis to the essential facts,
such as only the practised journalistic eye could
select and set down, with the clearness so necessary
to any newspaper statement.
The whole subject is one to be judged
from the journalistic standpoint. Tame and
Unsatisfying, indeed, would be the text matter
°f a paper having no discerning writers to
11 enliven ” the presentation of its facts in news.
This, then, is exactly what the camera cannot do,
but the artist can do so with taste and style. May
it be more fully appreciated before this vast public,
greedy for pictorial things, shall have lost their
keen interest in good drawing, so nobly fought for
by artist and publisher in the past fifteen years !
The accompanying examples have been selected
to show, as far as possible, the wide range of sub-
jects which “staff” men are called upon to
illustrate.
The Germanic in dry-dock is drawn in a style
both effective and admirably suited to the limita-
tions of rapid printing; bulk, form, and textures
are forcibly expressed, and with power of selec-
tion. L. A. Shafer is at home with a great
variety of subjects, but is best known for his
knowledge of ships of the U.S. Navy and of
racing yachts. Much of his work, both as artist
and writer, has been devoted to the International
Cup races.
The Realist is drawn in a manner characteristic
of a clever group of American draughtsmen who
aim at directness of methods, and the use of such
BY E. T. VAN HOVE
26l
f°Rtrait of the artist
(See article on E. T. Van Hove)
artists who have made it possible for the daily
press to become a field of pictorial expression; and
substituting insipid and misleading terms of photo-
graphy in place of really artistic work.
If the users of photographs base their claims on
their journalistic or news value, their argument will
not stand comparison with the results shown by the
artist journalist, who, with his facility in sketching,
can grasp more clearly, and set down his story
with more convincing force, than is possible to any
photographer. Moreover, he possesses that most
Valuable power, the elimination of unimportant
detail and of adding emphasis to the essential facts,
such as only the practised journalistic eye could
select and set down, with the clearness so necessary
to any newspaper statement.
The whole subject is one to be judged
from the journalistic standpoint. Tame and
Unsatisfying, indeed, would be the text matter
°f a paper having no discerning writers to
11 enliven ” the presentation of its facts in news.
This, then, is exactly what the camera cannot do,
but the artist can do so with taste and style. May
it be more fully appreciated before this vast public,
greedy for pictorial things, shall have lost their
keen interest in good drawing, so nobly fought for
by artist and publisher in the past fifteen years !
The accompanying examples have been selected
to show, as far as possible, the wide range of sub-
jects which “staff” men are called upon to
illustrate.
The Germanic in dry-dock is drawn in a style
both effective and admirably suited to the limita-
tions of rapid printing; bulk, form, and textures
are forcibly expressed, and with power of selec-
tion. L. A. Shafer is at home with a great
variety of subjects, but is best known for his
knowledge of ships of the U.S. Navy and of
racing yachts. Much of his work, both as artist
and writer, has been devoted to the International
Cup races.
The Realist is drawn in a manner characteristic
of a clever group of American draughtsmen who
aim at directness of methods, and the use of such
BY E. T. VAN HOVE
26l
f°Rtrait of the artist
(See article on E. T. Van Hove)