Flash Weekly Newspicture Magazine
Flash Weekly Newspicture Magazine (also written as Flash!) was a photojournalism magazine created by and for African Americans. The magazine ran between 1937 and 1939. Flash was produced weekly by editor Dutton Ferguson and was based in Washington, D.C. and New York.[1][2] The first issue came out on March 6, 1937.[3] The power of photography to depict Black life was central to the mission of Flash magazine.[1] Graphic design and cartoons were also important to the magazine, and a young Georg Olden served as an art director.[4]
Notable contributors included:
References
[edit]- ^ a b Boone, Emilie Chesnutt (November 2024). "Ripples in the Historiography: Harlem Studio Photographer James Van Der Zee and Cecil Beaton's New York, 1938". Art History. 47 (5): 964. doi:10.1093/arthis/ulae051.
- ^ a b Mcneill, Susan P. (2022). "Rooted in DC: Depression-Era Photo Documentarian Robert H. McNeill". Washington History. 34 (1): 10. ISSN 1042-9719 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "New Picture Magazine". The Crisis. 44 (5): 158. May 1937 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Video Veteran". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. 25 (3): 158–159. Summer 1947 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Deborah Willis (2000). Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present. Internet Archive. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-393-04880-3.
- ^ Reid, Tiana (2023-04-28). "Charles "Teenie" Harris's Midcentury Portrait of Black Culture in Pittsburgh". Aperture. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
- ^ Gardullo, Paul; National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.); National Museum of American History (U.S.) (2009). The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington : picturing the promise. Internet Archive. [Washington, D.C.] : National Museum of African American History and Culture : In collaboration with the National Museum of American History. ISBN 978-1-58834-262-1.