Friday, April 27, 2012

Franklin McMahon


Franklin McMahon
Franklin McMahon born on September 1921 was an artist reporter, that his work took him around the world for more than half a century. His work incorporated on journalism preferences for photographs to make a renowned career of drawing historic scenes in beauty, as well as emphatic lines. He sold a cartoon to Collier’s magazine while he was still in high school, after working for Life at the Till trial, McMahon a freelance artist, covered almost every national political convention from 1960 to 2004. After working for Life at the Till trial, McMahon a freelance artist, covered virtually every national political convention from 1960 to 2004, the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march, the Nixon-Kennedy debates and the Second Vatican Council.
He made a number of films consuming his pictures, and the presenting of one, about Chicago at Christmas, became a tradition in the city. Life magazine hired McMahon to make courtroom sketches of the trial, held in Sumner, assuming most on what you would think he was a print reporter doodling. He later redrew the sketches in his hotel room, and again in his studio. One of the most celebrated of the trial sketches published in Life captured Mose Wright, Emmett’s uncle.






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