Photojournalism is a form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It comes from the branch of photography because of the quality’s it has: Timeliness — the images have meaning in published record of events.
Objectivity — images is a fair and accurate representation of the events that are depict
Narrative — the images are combine with the news elements to make the facts relatable to the viewer.
The practicing of photojournalism began in the 1880’s. The first photojournalist Carol Szathmari a Rumanian painter, lithographer and photographer) he took pictures of the Crimean War. Only a few of the pictures survived and were sent to European royals houses where his pictures were published as engravings. On March 4, 1880, The Daily Graphic of New York published its first halftone reproduction of a news photograph. In 1887, How the Other Half Lives was able to come about because a flash powder was invented that enabling journalists such as Jacob Riis and others to photograph informal subjects indoors.
The golden age of photojournalism came about because of the 35mm Leica camera in 1925 followed by the flash bulbs. In the golden age magazines such as Picture Post (London), Paris Match (Paris), Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (Berlin), Berliner Illustrate Zeitung (Berlin), Life (USA), Look (USA), Sports Illustrated (USA)) and newspapers (The Daily Mirror (London), The New York Daily News (New York) built there readers up because of their photographs. Some of the well-known photojournalist at the time was:Robert Capa,
Alfred Eisenstaedt,
Margaret Bourke-White
W. Eugene Smith
And Henri Cartier-Bresson who was known as the father of modern photojournalism.
The decline of the photo magazine in the 60’s also caused a decline of the photo. Viewers started to watch more new prod cast on TV then read about them in their home. Photojournalism still excites today even though its day has based and people will still at times stop to pick up a newspaper of magazine because of its photo.
Video of a Photojournalist today
Video of a Photojournalist today
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