Picture This!: The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures [Hardcover]

Gary Haynes (Author), Walter Cronkite (Contributor)

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Publication Date: September 5, 2006

Haynes provides an insider's look at the remarkable photographs and stories of UPI's news photographers, providing a unique window on the second half of the 20th century.

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Gary Haynes joined United Press International as a photographer in Detroit in 1958. By 1969 he was UPI's assistant managing editor of photography in New York, and later that year was made a national picture editor for The New York Times. From inside UPI, as a shooter and a manager, Haynes saw nearly every UPI picture to move on the network for close to eleven years.

Walter Cronkite was a correspondent for UPI during World War II and then served as an evening news anchor on CBS for nearly 20 years, during which he became known as "the most trusted man in America."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Bulfinch (September 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821257587
• ISBN-13: 978-0821257586
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,434,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Gary Haynes
Oregon IL 61061

February 2011

Graduated K-State University with BJ degree. Joined Salina, (Ks.) Journal as staff photographer; US Army, retired a Captain, Adjutant General's Corps. Joined UPI as photographer in Detroit (1958); Picture bureau manager in Philadelphia (1959-61), Atlanta (1961-63), Special Projects Photographer in New York ('63), and bureau manager in Los Angeles (1964-67); Division Picture Manager in Chicago (l967-68), Assistant Managing Editor/Photos in New York (1969). National Photo Editor of the New York Times (1969-73); moved to San Francisco (1972), commuting weekly during a final year. Photo Editor of the San Francisco Examiner (Only six months in 1973); San Francisco freelance photographer (3 months); Graphic Arts Director, Philadelphia Inquirer (1974), Assistant Managing Editor, 1975. Listings: Marquis "Who's Who In America" and "Who's Who In The World," 2008

While AME at the Philadelphia Inquirer, hired more than a dozen staff photographers. Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for local and foreign photography and the staff shared a third; "Best Reporting from Abroad," Overseas Press Club; and other major photographic honors. POY Special Mention, "Best Use of Pictures in a Newspaper" (1985) and POY, "Best Use of Pictures in a Newspaper Zoned Edition," (1987).

Experience: As a photographer and editor, covered Meredith enrollment riots at the University of Mississippi and civil rights activities throughout the South (1960-64). UPI photographer in International Picture Pool at summer Olympics, Tokyo (1964) and UPI editor/photographer at summer Olympics, Mexico City (1968). Photographer and editor for World Series (1961-71), national political nominating conventions, campaigns, and inaugurals of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. NASA Mercury and Apollo programs, national and foreign trips of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon; the four days following the assassination of JFK, the U.S.Marine deployment to the Dominican Republic (1964).

Contributing photographer to "Four Days," American Heritage/UPI, (Kennedy assassination); assigned and edited photos for "Assignment America," New York Times. As a photographer, awards include Pictures of the Year first in spot, feature, and general news; White House News Photographers, "Best of Show;" World Press Photo, first and third-general news; first place in Look Mag sports photo contest. Sweepstakes Award, Atlanta Press Assn. Silver Medal:Magazine Special Section, Society of. Newspaper Design,. As an editor, Best Use of Pictures in a Newspaper, NPPA special award, 1978; Contributing photographer (book) 'A Week At Kansas State;" Photo editor, "A Day In The Life of California;" Judge, W.R. Hearst photojournalism competition, San Francisco, 1986-1988. Author, "Picture This! = the untold story and classic photos of UPI Newspictures" Bulfinch, 2006

Syndicated photo column, Knight (later Knight-Ridder) newspapers, 1976-1987; Lecturer on photography and photo editing, American Press Institute, Reston, Va. (1987-1991); The New School, New York (1991); International Center of Photography, New York (1990); USA-USSR Photo Summit, Moscow, 1992, University of the Arts, Philadelphia (l989-91), Temple University, Philadelphia (1992).Kansas State University, Manhattan (1989-2004)
Photo/Graphics resident consultant, New York Times, 1996-1997.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular, September 4, 2006

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This review is from: Picture This!: The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures (Hardcover)

Everyone who picks up a newspaper is used to seeing photos credited to the Associated Press (AP). Not so long ago, United Press International (UPI) photographers worked the trenches "shoulder to shoulder" with their AP rivals.

UPI's rise and fall has been chronicled by other journalists, but this is the first tribute to its incredible wealth of photographic history. Although underpaid and overworked, UPI photographers and photo editors churned out remarkable visuals.

In Picture This, Haynes has assembled an amazing collection of black-and-white photos that is a mere representation of the more than 11-million photos contained in archives preserved by Bill Gates' Corbis group. Like history itself, the mood of the photos range from humorous to somber to devastating to profound. This is not a volume for the faint of heart, as some of the photos stem from intense tragedy; but these images should never be forgotten.

Words cannot describe what UPI--and AP--photographers have endured to record history as it happens. To that, the rest of the world owes them an everlasting debt of gratitude.

Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
9/4/2006

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We lived through UPI's ups and downs, November 16, 2006

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This review is from: Picture This!: The Inside Story and Classic Photos of UPI Newspictures (Hardcover)

My husband worked for UPI Newspictures from 1961 to l981 and shared the ups and downs of UPI and Gary Haynes has captured the story of the wonderful photographers and their work who were always out numbered by the AP and were able to compete and win many stories by sheer determination. UPI Newspictures had a great planner,Charley McCarty who out thought the oposition and two fantastic photo editors Ted Majeski and Larry Desantis who could find the best images on the film they edited. This books shows some of the photos they found on the film made by the hardworking photographers who never were willing to let the AP beat them. Thanks to Gary Haynes for putting it all in this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Delicious Book!, October 9, 2006

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The Pooka (Culleoka, TN) - See all my reviews

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Gary Haynes' book, Picture This, is as wonderful as dicovering the Mobius Strip. One carefully explores the wonderfully detailed black and white photographs and ends up (without even thinking about it) at the beginning again. Teachers of history should have this book available because it shows just what humanity found to be visually riveting. The pictures range from shots of terrible, horrific destruction to the delightfully ridiculous.