Photojournalism

responsibility to the public, photojournalism is also guided by ethics. Responsible photojournalism means adherence to a standard of ethics. “Ethics is concerned with a person’s duty toward moral obligations to humankind” (Fulton as cited in McDaniel, 2006). Bersak (2006) says that, “there is no sole arbiter of what is ethical, and even if there were, the line isn’t always black and white.” He says that, “ethics is an inherently subjective field.” As Kobre (2008) discusses, “photojournalism has…

TV news coverage generally conspired against a more focused context; discouraged its natural offspring, serious debate; and in contradiction of the media’s higher aims, harmed rather than helped the cause of democracy (99). The works of war photojournalism are frequently filtered with the state. This creates a more difficult process for the production of unique media. The usage of handpicked journalist during operations in Afghanistan and in the US-led invasion of Iraq is the latest among other…

Morality and Quality There is certain controversy between quality and morality. At least, it seems to be the case in photojournalism in the modern media. With advanced technology, photographers have the ability to produce better pictures which fulfill the professional standards perfectly. However, these pictures are not necessarily humane or ethical, especially when these photos touch death. Stanley Forman captured a breathtaking picture of a woman who was falling to her death in the Boston…

World War II really helped to popularize photojournalism because the public wanted to see what was happening, they wished to be informed and photojournalism provided a way to share that information. So with this magazines like Time, Fortune, and Life were published. They provided insight for the public to see and experience what was happening around them. During WW2, Life was the most influential photojournalism magazine of the era and the world. And for the first time, people knew the horrors…

the history of photojournalism. This image had taken by Kevin Karter in March 1993, while he was on a trip in Sudan. When the photography was published in the New York Times, on March 26, 1993, a lot of people started to contact with the newspaper to ask about the child. The newspaper published and special editor’s note saying that they didn’t know her ultimate fate. Thanks to this image, Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, the most coveted prize for photojournalism. Carter…

Hine’s was a photojournalistic artist. He used photojournalism to tell his stories. Photojournalism is the art or practice of communication news through newspapers, magazines, and more. He used photojournalism while trying to get the message that child labor was negative across. Hine’s amazing work that was produced by his talent was the face of the National Child Labor Committee and what they stood for as a community. Lewis Hine’s work was able to get the NAtional Child Labor Committee’s point…

I aim to do discuss the difference between McCurry’s visual storytelling versus photojournalism. In order to understand how to read a photograph, this essay will unpack the meaning of visual literacy. Visual literacy is defined in three-folds: first the process of sending and receiving messages using images; the ability to construct meaning…

Street photography is like the fine-art version of photojournalism. Much like photojournalism, street photography captures the everyday moments of regular people in ways that fascinate the viewer. Famous street photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson conceived the idea of the “Decisive Moment” in photography. This term essentially…

that should be taken while manipulating photos. On one hand, some researchers argue that if photojournalists are not attentive and aware of using the digital imaging manipulation techniques and crossed its ethical boundaries, the credibility of photojournalism will be destroyed (Irby, 1996, cited in Gosen, 2000). "Should the day ever come when photographs in mainstream newspapers or magazines are greeted with doubt as to their very content or origin, something terrible will have happened to our…

breathtaking pictures of something that happened. That they disturb readers is exactly as it should be; that’s why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism”. She believes that the photos taken were great and breathtaking pictures of something that happened. Her real argument is the pictures of something that happened is what’s important here. She also explains why photojournalism is important because her photos made her audience disturbed because…