Rivoli's images may help buttress the argument that Rockwell's illustrations helped to give rise to feature photojournalism in the 1950s and 1960s.
“Rockwell really taught photographers to see those common everyday moments, which he defined through his covers for the Saturday Evening Post,” said Andrew Mendelson, chairman of the journalism department at Temple University.
“The era of illustrators is really over, and in my argument that era has been replaced by photojournalism,” said Mendelson, who has written about Rockwell's impact for publications like Journalism History.
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