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Photojournalism Photography's ability to
record events “seemingly” as they happen is one of its great
strengths…and questionable weaknesses. Short History:
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Center of Photography
Today photojournalists cover the
world, with modern communications bringing photographs of important events to
the public within hours of their occurrence. Some of the best
photojournalists have joined into groups such as Magnum and Black Star for
marketing their images and have had great influence on the style of
photojournalism. Consider what is included and
what is excluded via cropping, framing, lighting, composition, color,
texture, balance, perspective, motion and proportion (The basic elements from
the See also Photojournalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photojournalism War Photographers: From
Robert Capa's 1936 photograph "Falling Soldier" Robert Capa, Death of a Loyalist Soldier, 1936
to Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Marines raising the flag
on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima Joe Rosenthal,
Raising the Flag over Iwo Jima there is a deep fascination with capturing
the emotional, physical and psychological essence of war. Robert Capa: Bio and most famous photographs http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/capa/ Falling soldier controversy http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html Joe
Rosenthal: http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm http://www.newseum.org/warstories/interviews/mov/journalists/bio.asp?ID=32 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_at_Ground_Zero Gilles Peress: http://www.artsmia.org/get-the-picture/peress/ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/eusb/hob_1998.180.1.htm James Nachtwey American Photojournalist http://www.americanphotojournalist.com/story.php?storyid=66 Photographers of the Civil War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_Photographers_of_the_American_Civil_War http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/v?ammem/cwar:0001-0014:T1 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html Sam Shere,
Bruning of the Hindenburg, Lakehurst, N.J. May 6, 1937 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Joseph
Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Chief, 1933 Bob Jackson, Jack
Ruby Shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas, Nov. 24, 1963 War Stories http://www.newseum.org/warstories/exhibitinfo/artifacts.htm War Pornographers Social Landscape Photography Since the birth of photography,
photographers have been documenting the social landscape - the people, events,
and artifacts that present a cultural and social picture for the times. Most
photographers recording the social landscape were concerned with a kind of
truth that they felt the photographic process gave and for that reason did
not manipulate the images in printing. War photographers, photojournalist,
social documentary photographers - all contributed to their vast body of
work. Some of this work was done with specific agendas such as work done for
the Farm Securities
Administration, although it was performed in a way that attempted to be
objective. Walker Evans
in His Own Words (4:38) Dorothea Lange Migrant Farm Families http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html In the 1950's Swiss photographer Robert Frank used straight
photography techniques in a new way to show the social landscape from a
distinctly personal and idiosyncratic viewpoint. His photographs of In the 1960's Diane
Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Danny Lyon used social
landscape to show images of the fringes of society - those considered to be
aberrants or freaks. |
