Crowd at the laying of the United Nations cornerstone, New York City

Dan Weiner focused on the rise of news media and how it affected an understanding of world events.

According to Weiner: “Those of us who matured in the 1930s felt the full impact of the newly developed visual media: the picture magazine and newspaper, the newsreel, the documentary still photograph, and film … The breadlines, the dust bowls, the rise of Hitler became sharp realities for me, more through the photograph than the printed word … This has produced a generation of photographers like myself whose restless lens keeps probing at the central issues of our day and who have pushed the photographic horizons farther and deeper into the shape of the world and men’s relation to one another ... ”