Stringers, Syndicates and the Press-Photo Business

Weegee on the police scanner, Black Star’s picture packages, the FSA’s government camera men, Eisenstaedt and W. Eugene Smith — how the supply of press photos actually worked at its 1950 peak.

Playlist by @picture_agency_birth

13 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Spotlight on Stories from the Picture Press — The Image Centre
2. The Making of an Exhibition: Stories from the Picture Press — The Image Centre
3. Audrey Leblanc: Métiers de femmes’: The example of the Black Star Collection, 1960x-1980c — Fast Forward: Women in Photography
4. “ WEE GEE’S CAMERA MAGIC ” 1960 PHOTOGRAPHY INSTRUCTIONAL FILM w/ ARTHUR FELLIG XD60104b — PeriscopeFilm
5. Weegee — The Art of Photography
6. Eddie Muller on the Art and Legacy of Crime Photographer Weegee — Contemporary Jewish Museum
7. Remaking a Murder: How Weegee Photographed a Mob Killing — Vulture
8. Weegee: Two Truths & A Lie — Jason Tannen
9. Life Magazine's Greatest Photographers Share Their Photographic Stories — David Hoffman
10. Magnum's MOST Influential Photojournalist EVER // W. Eugene Smith — Developing Tank
11. Power of Photojournalism 2/2 — Reynolds Journalism Institute
12. Dorothea Lange - An American Odyssey — Depression Era Photographers
13. 16 Documentary Photography the FSA Years — Tom Patton