Photojournalism

History and WHAT IS IT???

Foundations

• 1880 and 1897.

• Crimean War (1853 to 1856) William Simpson of the Illustrated London News and Roger Fenton

• American Civil War : Mathew Brady.

• On March 4, 1880, The Daily Graphic (New York).

• 1887 Flash powder was invented

• 1927 and 1930 elements in place for a "golden age" of photojournalism.

The Golden Age

• Magazines :::Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith

• Migrant Mother::: Dorothea Lange

• Magazine photographers achieved near-celebrity status.

• Newspaper photographers not successful

Acceptance by the art worldLuc Delahaye, and Chien-Chi Chang are among many who regularly exhibit in galleries.

Ethical and legal considerations

• Objectivity

• What to shoot, how to frame and how to edit are constant considerations.

• The photojournalist often has no control as to how images are ultimately used.

• The emergence of digital photography offers whole new realms of opportunity for the manipulation, reproduction, and transmission of images. It has inevitably complicated many of the ethical issues involved.

• The U.S. National Press Photographers Association

• Ethical Laws

Atlaf Qadri

Eddie Adams

Felice Beato

Timothy Allen

Sources

• www.wikipedia.org

• http://www.photojournal.co.uk/

• http://www.altafqadri.com/gal/index.php

• London, Barbara, and John Upton. Photography. Scott, Foresman and Company,1989.