Slice-of-Life Moments as Visual “Truth”

Abstract

To photojournalists, the purpose of feature photographs is to reveal something enduring or timeless in the human spirit, and such images require their creators to find deeper meaning in the everyday. Before (and alongside) the emergence of feature photography, such work was also the province of the artists whose illustrations filled the pages of popular magazines. This article connects the magazine artwork of the most successful of these illustrators, Norman Rockwell, who was particularly famous for his Saturday Evening Post covers, with modern news feature photography and examines the cultural themes underlying pictorial journalism for the past century. Through an analysis of contemporary, award-winning feature photographs, it is evident that Rockwell's aesthetic, created more than eighty years ago, is continuously (re)created as photographers document the “real-life” of their communities.

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