Photo: A History from Behind the Lens: 1x10

Press Usage

The alliance of signature photography and mainstream press led photography to become the popular image of the 20th century. The magazines that started appearing in the 1920s – such as BIZ in Germany, Vu in France, the Weekly Illustrated and Picture Post in England, and Life in the United States – broke away from the routine of the first illustrated magazines that used photography merely as an accompaniment for text. With these new magazines, photographs became primary vehicles of information.