Claude Cookman | Faculty
Associate Professor, School of Journalism
E-mail:ccookman@indiana.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Princeton University, Art and Archaeology, 1994.
MFA, Princeton University, Art and Archaeology, 1989.
MS, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, 1971.
AB, with high honors, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 1965.
Research Interests
- Visual communications, photojournalism editing, history of photography, graphic communication, computer design, informational graphics and mass communications pedagogy.
Personal Statement
Before joining higher education, Claude Cookman enjoyed a professional career of more than 18 years in journalism, primarily as a photography editor. He earned an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and an MFA in art history and Ph.D. in the history of photography, both from Princeton University. He is the author of books on the history of American photojournalism and the founding of the National News Photographers Association.
Cookman wrote his dissertation on Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who helped invent photographic spontaneity in the early 1930s. His research field is French magazine photojournalists who work in the humanist tradition. Besides Cartier-Bresson, he has published articles on Marc Riboud, Gilles Caron, Janine Niepce and others.
Cookman, who has been at Indiana University Bloomington since 1990, teaches the History of Twentieth Century Photography.
Selected Publications
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American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, in press, 2009.
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“Gilles Caron’s coverage of the crisis in Biafra,” Visual Communication Quarterly, Winter 2008.
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“Henri Cartier-Bresson Reinterprets his Career,” History of Photography, Spring, 2008.
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“Gilles Caron and the Student Rebellion of May 1968,” History of Photography, Autumn 2007
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“The equality they deserve: Janine Niepce’s coverage of French women’s lives and struggle for equal rights,” Visual Communication Quarterly, Fall 2006
