...It was an attempt to approach the inner truth of a subject through a combination of multiple photographs and captions rather than through visual commentary. The establishment of awareness of the new method of the "photo essay" was already indicated by the editor's commentary on Eisenstaedt's 1937 series "Wasser Women's College" as "the camera as essayist." Many masterpieces were produced mainly in the 1950s, such as Leonard McComb's "The Private Life of Gwynedd Fielding" (1948), which follows the daily life of a woman who comes to New York from the countryside to work and dream of becoming a fashion model, Eugene Smith's "Spanish Village" (1951), which depicts the people of a remote village living a traditional life under the Franco regime, and Dorothea Lange's "Irish Country People" (1955), which depicts Irish immigrants in America. With these photographs, LIFE conveyed to its readers the "hidden truth of the everyday world" that could not be found in so-called news photographs, and it can be said that it established a new form of photojournalism. *Some of the terminology that refers to "Irish Country People" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…それは複数の写真の組合せとキャプションとにより,視覚的な解説以上にテーマの内面的な真実へと迫ろうとする試みであった。〈フォト・エッセー〉という新しい方法への意識の確立は,すでに1937年のアイゼンシュテットによる《ワッサー女子大学》という組写真に対する,編集者の〈エッセイストとしてのカメラ〉という解説にも示されており,のちレナード・マッコムの,地方からニューヨークへ来て働きながらファッション・モデルになることを夢みる一人の女性の日常を追った《グウィンド・フィリングの私生活》(1948),フランコ政権下で昔ながらの伝統的な生活をする寒村の人々を描いたユージン・スミスの《スペインの村》(1951),アメリカのアイルランド系移民たちの姿を撮ったドロシア・ラングの《アイリッシュ・カントリー・ピープル》(1955)など,50年代を中心にして数多くの傑作が生まれた。《ライフ》はこれらの写真によって,いわゆるニュース写真では知ることのできない〈日常的な世界の中の隠された真実〉を読者に伝え,フォト・ジャーナリズムの新しいあり方を打ち立てたということができよう。… ※「《アイリッシュ・カントリー・ピープル》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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