what exactly is Photojournalism?

Question

thats sounds like something id like to do. im trying to find out what i want to do after i graduate

Answer 1

hi!

The invention of the term photojournalism is often attributed to Cliff Edom (1907–1991), who taught at the University of Missouri School of Journalism for 29 years. Edom established the first photojournalism program there, and created the Missouri Photographic Workshop in 1946.

Edom said, during the judging of the 1989 Pictures of the Year Contest (which he also founded), that the then-Dean of the School of Journalism, Frank L. Mott actually coined the word.

The practice of illustrating news stories with photographs was made possible by printing and photography innovations that occurred between 1880 and 1897.

While newsworthy events were photographed as early as the 1850s, printing presses could only publish from engravings until the 1880s. Early news photographs required that photos be re-interpreted by an engraver before they could be published.

The pioneering battlefield photographs from the Crimean War (1853 to 1856) by British press reporters such as William Simpson of the Illustrated London News and Roger Fenton were published as engravings.

Similarly, the American Civil War photographs of Mathew Brady were engraved before publication in Harper's Weekly. Because the public craved more realistic representations of news stories, it was common for newsworthy photographs to be exhibited in galleries or to be copied photographically in limited numbers.

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, and in some cases to video used in broadcast journalism.

Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by the qualities of:

* Timeliness — the images have meaning in the context of a published chronological record of events.

* Objectivity — the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict.

* Narrative — the images combine with other news elements, to inform and give insight to the viewer or reader.


Photojournalists must make decisions instantly and carry photographic equipment, often while exposed to the same risks (war, rioting, etc.) that are faced by text-only journalists. The fact that they rarely have the option to stand back or wait until the dangerous parts of an event are over means they may take even more risks.

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Answer 2

Photojournalists are journalist who also take photographs along with their stories. The term is to differentiate from a journalist who only does the story or a news photographer who only takes the photos. In some countries it is against trade union rules for a person to be a photojournalist.
A TV news cameraman may use a film movie camera or a video camera, and only takes the vision.

Answer 3

Many years ago, before video cameras, journalists who were good at photography would take pictures that made the people at home , in their local newspaper or on tv understand what was going , in a war or at a president's funeral or landing on iwa jima.

Pictures can and do say more than words on some occasions.

Videographers travel with reporters now when they travel overseas, although the picture cell phone may eradicate videographers eventually. It can be a tricky business especially if you're covering a war or uprising in a foreign country. People used to understand that it would be the journalist and photographer who would tell their story to the world but after Perle was assassinated terrorists seem to like taking journalists hostage , sometimes letting em go , sometimes torturing them , sometimes killing them. It's a risky move if you want the world to really understand what you want them to know.

Answer 4

photos is in basic terms as reliable because it ever became. Now there are 2 mediums to pander to, it in basic terms demands extra advantageous photos interior the digital format, which various of people are unable to or did no longer evaluate in the previous. various of people wander off interior the "artwork" of photos and then attempt to get a genuine, useful activity in that industry. It would not artwork like that throughout any respect. Secondly, the industry is so ******* saturated with retarded hipsters who spend all of their parents income college and then while they get their degree they never found out something, and then bypass directly to get some form of administration activity and do the occasional "wedding ceremony" it is an particularly saturated industry.

Answer 5

Basically, a news photographer (that includes working with still cameras, video cameras, etc).