DOI Heft:
No. 110 (May, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Jenkins, Will: Illustration of the daily press in America
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0276
A merican Press Illustrators
artists who have made it possible for the daily but the artist can do so with taste and style. May
press to become a field of pictorial expression; and it be more fully appreciated before this vast public,
substituting insipid and misleading terms of photo- greedy for pictorial things, shall have lost their
graphy in place of really artistic work. keen interest in good drawing, so nobly fought for
If the users of photographs base their claims on by artist and publisher in the past fifteen years !
their journalistic or news value, their argument will The accompanying examples have been selected
not stand comparison with the results shown by the to show, as far as possible, the wide range of sub-
artist journalist, who, with his facility in sketching, jects which "staff" men are called upon to
can grasp more clearly, and set down his story illustrate.
with more convincing force, than is possible to any The Germanic in dry-dock is drawn in a style
photographer. Moreover, he possesses that most both effective and admirably suited to the limita-
valuable power, the elimination of unimportant tions of rapid printing; bulk, form, and textures
detail and of adding emphasis to the essential facts, are forcibly expressed, and with power of selec-
such as only the practised journalistic eye could tion. L. A. Shafer is at home with a great
select and set down, with the clearness so necessary variety of subjects, but is best known for his
to any newspaper statement. knowledge of ships of the U.S. Navy and of
The whole subject is one to be judged racing yachts. Much of his work, both as artist
from the journalistic standpoint. Tame and and writer, has been devoted to the International
unsatisfying, indeed, would be the text matter Cup races.
of a paper having no discerning writers to The Realist is drawn in a manner characteristic
" enliven" the presentation ot its facts in news. of a clever group of American draughtsmen who
This, then, is exactly what the camera cannot do, aim at directness of methods, and the use of such
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
(See article on E. T. Van Hove)
BY E. T. VAN HOVE
26l
artists who have made it possible for the daily but the artist can do so with taste and style. May
press to become a field of pictorial expression; and it be more fully appreciated before this vast public,
substituting insipid and misleading terms of photo- greedy for pictorial things, shall have lost their
graphy in place of really artistic work. keen interest in good drawing, so nobly fought for
If the users of photographs base their claims on by artist and publisher in the past fifteen years !
their journalistic or news value, their argument will The accompanying examples have been selected
not stand comparison with the results shown by the to show, as far as possible, the wide range of sub-
artist journalist, who, with his facility in sketching, jects which "staff" men are called upon to
can grasp more clearly, and set down his story illustrate.
with more convincing force, than is possible to any The Germanic in dry-dock is drawn in a style
photographer. Moreover, he possesses that most both effective and admirably suited to the limita-
valuable power, the elimination of unimportant tions of rapid printing; bulk, form, and textures
detail and of adding emphasis to the essential facts, are forcibly expressed, and with power of selec-
such as only the practised journalistic eye could tion. L. A. Shafer is at home with a great
select and set down, with the clearness so necessary variety of subjects, but is best known for his
to any newspaper statement. knowledge of ships of the U.S. Navy and of
The whole subject is one to be judged racing yachts. Much of his work, both as artist
from the journalistic standpoint. Tame and and writer, has been devoted to the International
unsatisfying, indeed, would be the text matter Cup races.
of a paper having no discerning writers to The Realist is drawn in a manner characteristic
" enliven" the presentation ot its facts in news. of a clever group of American draughtsmen who
This, then, is exactly what the camera cannot do, aim at directness of methods, and the use of such
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
(See article on E. T. Van Hove)
BY E. T. VAN HOVE
26l