Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts: Photographic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century

by Estelle Jussim

Examines the nineteenth-century development of photography and phototechnology as the dominant visual medium in America

384 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1974

About the author

Estelle Jussim is an American teacher and writer. Her work deals with the history and criticism of photography and communication theory and the psychology of popular arts. Among other activities, she serves as a consultant to photographic archives.

Estelle Jussim was born on March 18, 1927 in New York City. She was the daughter of Boris and Manya (Glusker) Jussim.

Jussim studied at Queens College in New York, receiving a BA in 1947, and at Columbia University in New York, where she earned an MS in 1963 and a PhD in 1970. She also earned Doctor of Philosophy in Linköping (Sweden) University in 1990.

In 1972 Jussim assumed her position as professor of visual communication at Simmons College in Boston. From 1969 to 1972 she was assistant professor of communications media at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1965-66 she held the position of executive assistant to the director of educational resources for the Borough of Manhattan; before that she was employed by the Columbia University libraries from 1963 to 1965. She worked as a freelance graphic designer in New York City during 1948-1960. She was on International advisory board of History of Photography in London since 1980.

She died on March 1, 2004 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States.