This week’s post comes from Caroline Partamian, who has been working as my Archival Assistant for the past few months. I hope you’ll enjoy her thought-provoking post on the identities of Daily Worker Photographers, which in part follows up on my post of last week
While processing the Daily Worker/Daily World Photographs Collection a few months ago, I came across a series of photographs in a folder titled “Floods” showing injured sailors arriving at New York City’s Penn Station from an unspecified “flood area.” I was intrigued by the photos
Long before there was Photoshop, news media used other means to modify photographs to match their message they wanted to convey. Compare the two images of a group of defendants on trial in 1963 under the McCarran Internal Security Act from the Daily Worker/Daily World
It’s been a few months since my last update on the processing of the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection. Since I last posted, we’ve made great progress, completing the processing the Biographical Series. We’ve also already made a significant (archivally sound) dent in
Today’s post comes from Michael Chui, who’s been working with me to process the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection. He’s a student in NYU’s Museum Studies program, and has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology. He’s got an interesting and unique take on the
If you’ve paid any attention to US politics, media, culture, etc., during the last century or so, you’re probably aware that Americans are not fond of communists. Of course, not every American feels this way, but I think it’s safe to say that hatred of
Meet the Daily Worker and the Daily World Photographs Collection, close to 300 linear feet of photographic prints and negatives depicting notable figures and events in progressive political movements and popular culture of the last century. This collection consists of the photograph morgue of the