Title: Horace Bristol : an American view /
Authors: Conner, Ken, 1952-; Heimerdinger, Debra.; Bristol, Horace.
Publisher: Chronicle Books,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Bristol, Horace.; Photojournalists United States Biography; Photojournalism United States Biography.
Abstract: In the tradition of the great photographic populists Alfred Eisenstaedt and Dorothea Lange, Horace Bristol used his camera to record the human, intimate movements in the grand sweep of history. Bristol's American view included the best and the worst of this century, from poignant images of the urban poor and migrant farm workers during the Depression to the battle scenes of World War II and compelling portraits of post-war Japan and Southeast Asia. One of the first staff photographers for Life magazine, Bristol was tireless in his pursuit of the revelatory image. Wildly prolific in the thirties and forties, he later gave up photography, and his work languished in obscurity for nearly thirty years. Recently rediscovered, Bristol has come to be recognized as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century.