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    Atlanta Scenes: Photojournalism in the Atlanta History Center Collection
    Atlanta Scenes: Photojournalism in the Atlanta History Center Collection
    Atlanta Scenes: Photojournalism in the Atlanta History Center Collection
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    Atlanta Scenes: Photojournalism in the Atlanta History Center Collection

    By Kimberly S. Blass, Michael Rose and Atlanta History Center

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    Atlanta, the thriving capital of the New South, has a rich and fascinating history. In Atlanta Scenes, authors Kimberly S. Blass and Michael Rose draw from the works of some of the city s earliest and finest photojournalists Francis Price, Marion Johnson, Bill Wilson, and Kenneth Rogers to bring that history to life. Atlanta Scenes documents some of the city s noteworthy events, personalities, and landmarks, many of which will be readily identifiable. The images range from the everyday (baseball games at Ponce de Leon Ballpark, boys on bicycles, and Humane Society dog rescues) to the eventful (the Gone with the Wind premiere, the deadly Winecoff Hotel fire, and the infamous Leo Frank trial). Many scenes reflect the iconography of the Old South, while others provide insight into the harsh realities of twentieth-century life. In this volume, well-crafted, artistic images blend with on-the-spot action shots.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateAug 18, 2003
    ISBN9781439612439
    Atlanta Scenes: Photojournalism in the Atlanta History Center Collection
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    Kimberly S. Blass

    Spanning a 60-year period from the turn of the century, the photographs presented here are the images captured on film by Atlanta�s photo-journalists, covering stories that touched Atlanta life. Whether one is a newcomer to the area or a longtime resident, Atlanta Scenes has something for everyone.

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      Atlanta Scenes - Kimberly S. Blass

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      One

      FRANCIS PRICE

      On December 12, 1909, the Atlanta Constitution carried a nondescript photograph of sightseeing cars passing through Atlanta to Florida; its credit line reads, Francis E. Price. The next day’s paper proudly proclaimed the addition of Price as staff photographer, splendidly equipped for his position by his many years in the studio business. A photo of a cross-country auto trip was an apt introduction for Price, whose personal exploits—motoring around the state, flying over Atlanta, and hanging from wrecking balls—added an element of risk to his work.

      Price was the first full-time staff photographer of an Atlanta newspaper. With the Atlanta Journal’s Winn and the Atlanta Georgian’s Lane Brothers, he helped to develop the relatively new profession of photojournalism. Over time the photographs provided by Price and other photojournalists helped to sell papers, and room was increasingly devoted to their images.

      Born in Anniston, Alabama, in 1886, Price was considered one of the foremost newspaper photographers in the South, evidenced by his groundbreaking work as an aerial photographer and his coverage of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917. Beleaguered by financial problems and depressed over the death of his father, Price died of an apparent suicide in February 1928.

      While much of his work was tragically destroyed in a fire at the Constitution’s building, a number of images remain, and his pioneering work left a heritage for his profession.

      Photographer Francis Price is shown at his roll-top desk in his Atlanta Constitution office.

      Early newspaper photography centered on portraits of political, business, and social personalities. William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic presidential candidate and President Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of state, posed for this picture during a visit to Atlanta.

      In October 1910, former president Theodore Roosevelt visited Martha Berry at the Berry Schools (now Berry College) near Rome, Georgia. Colonel Roosevelt and Miss Berry stand beside the carriage and mule team, Nip and Tuck, with which he was shown around the grounds of the school.

      Francis Price photographs an African-American woman on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol, c. 1915. Price uses a Graflex camera, the standard professional photojournalist’s camera during the first 20 years of the century. Price looks through a leather funnel into the viewfinder to focus on his subject. This Graflex used glass-plate

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