Claude Cookman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claude Cookman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claude |
| FAMILY NAME | Cookman |
| SIGNATURE | COOKMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
My Lai
Henri Cartier‐Bresson Reinterprets his Career
Between 1952 and 1974, Henri Cartier‐Bresson significantly revised his understanding of himself as a photojournalist. This article analyses that change through close readings of his book, The Decisive Moment (1952), an interview in Le Monde (1974), and other published statements and unpublished letters by Cartier‐Bresson. It draws on interviews and correspondence with his widow Martine Franck, with his friend and representative Helen Wright, and …
Gilles Caron and the May 1968 Rebellion in Paris
This article analyzes the coverage of the May 1968 rebellion in Paris by photojournalist Gilles Caron. Caron photographed the events with thoroughness, recording the student militants and the forces of order during their nightly skirmishes. He documented numerous demonstrations, rallies, political meetings and other major events and portrayed the major student leaders and politicians. Caron produced several images that went beyond daily news phot…
An American Atrocity
Some people think that the Japanese committed atrocities, that the Germans committed atrocities, that the Russians committed atrocities, but that the Americans don't commit atrocities. Well, this just isn't so. American troops are as capable as any other of committing atrocities.1 —Robert Rheault, 1970, former commander of U.S. Special Forces, Vietnam Few military operations have been documented as thoroughly as the My Lai massacre during the Vie…
Edward Steichen's Self-portraits
In 1898, Edward Steichen made a photographic self-portrait in which he presented himself as a modest, unassuming youth (figure 1). Three years later in another self-portrait, he proclaimed himself an artistic genius (figure 2). The changes in style, content and meaning from the first to the second picture resulted not just from Steichen's coming of age as a photographic artist, but also from the objectives of Alfred Stieglitz and the pictorialist…
Margaret Bourke-White and Henri Cartier-Bresson
When news of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi circulated through New Delhi on 30 January 1948, Margaret Bourke-White, one of Life magazine's premier photographers, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, then a comparatively unknown French photojournalist, raced to Birla House, where the event occurred. Both understood the journalistic imperative of photographing Gandhi's body. Because of their different philosophical and technical approaches to photograp…
Henri Cartier-Bresson
My Lai
An American Atrocity
Some people think that the Japanese committed atrocities, that the Germans committed atrocities, that the Russians committed atrocities, but that the Americans don't commit atrocities. Well, this just isn't so. American troops are as capable as any other of committing atrocities.1 —Robert Rheault, 1970, former commander of U.S. Special Forces, Vietnam Few military operations have been documented as thoroughly as the My Lai massacre during the Vie…
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Edward Steichen's Self-portraits
In 1898, Edward Steichen made a photographic self-portrait in which he presented himself as a modest, unassuming youth (figure 1). Three years later in another self-portrait, he proclaimed himself an artistic genius (figure 2). The changes in style, content and meaning from the first to the second picture resulted not just from Steichen's coming of age as a photographic artist, but also from the objectives of Alfred Stieglitz and the pictorialist…
Margaret Bourke-White and Henri Cartier-Bresson
When news of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi circulated through New Delhi on 30 January 1948, Margaret Bourke-White, one of Life magazine's premier photographers, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, then a comparatively unknown French photojournalist, raced to Birla House, where the event occurred. Both understood the journalistic imperative of photographing Gandhi's body. Because of their different philosophical and technical approaches to photograp…
Gilles Caron and the May 1968 Rebellion in Paris
This article analyzes the coverage of the May 1968 rebellion in Paris by photojournalist Gilles Caron. Caron photographed the events with thoroughness, recording the student militants and the forces of order during their nightly skirmishes. He documented numerous demonstrations, rallies, political meetings and other major events and portrayed the major student leaders and politicians. Caron produced several images that went beyond daily news phot…
An American Atrocity
Some people think that the Japanese committed atrocities, that the Germans committed atrocities, that the Russians committed atrocities, but that the Americans don't commit atrocities. Well, this just isn't so. American troops are as capable as any other of committing atrocities.1 —Robert Rheault, 1970, former commander of U.S. Special Forces, Vietnam Few military operations have been documented as thoroughly as the My Lai massacre during the Vie…
Henri Cartier‐Bresson Reinterprets his Career
Between 1952 and 1974, Henri Cartier‐Bresson significantly revised his understanding of himself as a photojournalist. This article analyses that change through close readings of his book, The Decisive Moment (1952), an interview in Le Monde (1974), and other published statements and unpublished letters by Cartier‐Bresson. It draws on interviews and correspondence with his widow Martine Franck, with his friend and representative Helen Wright, and …
My Lai
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