Photojournalism

than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate" (Cronkite, 1968). Editorial comments like these soon outnumbered positive comments 2 to 1 (Hallin, 1986) and explicitly highlighted the press’s displeasure. Television and photojournalism had become a dramatic medium that showcased the…

Over the years, media has been a strong element of entertainment. Whether photographs or videos, there is a strong expectation of an aesthetic or humorous appeal. However, in some rare occasions, they provide a powerful emotional appeal. Like Kevin Carter’s The Vulture and the Little Girl where a vulture was waiting to devour a starving five-year-old girl about to die of hunger, Charles Moore’s Life Magazine Birmingham 1963 Protest photo employs different photography elements such as focus,…

Memories and moments can be remembered deep within our mind and shared by word, but these days people choose to remember these things by taking pictures and viewing photos with others. Technology these days makes that so simple. Take out a phone, snap a picture, and post it on a social media website or share it with all your friends via text. Travel back roughly 155 years ago and taking snapshots weren’t even close to that easy. From 1860-1865 American was fighting a Civil War that broke out…

that; the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. One also could argue that there are God-given rights to privacy and the ability to shield certain emotions, like pain, from the public. But as our textbook states, “By its very nature, photojournalism is intrusive and revealing.” Thus giving Jacobson all the right to take the picture and the AP all the right, nay; need to publish the…

Photography has always been very important in our world history,it has in the past and will be in the future.It is an important way of documentation of the human life.It documents our people, events, and feelings by capturing that moment in time forever for anyone else who may come across the photo.”Looking back, documentary photography has made waves of impact as a method of truth-telling in difficult times, a way of exposing disturbing scenes to raise awareness of things like poverty and…

After two escapes from highly guarded prisons, various bank robberies, and several high-speed shooting sprees, John Dillinger met his end in our very own Lincoln Park, bringing great satisfaction to the FBI. The movie Public Enemies focuses on the creation of the modern Federal Bureau of Intelligence and the search for the infamous Chicago gangster as he travels from Indiana to Chicago throughout 1933, trying to dodge his inevitable fate. Most of the United States was deep into the Great…

What makes a journalist? A person writing this would probably jump to an answer that is obvious and played out, for example, someone who reports the news, however there is much more to it than that. A person writing on this prompt would have to consider all the different types of journalism that there is and what they really do. The person would also have to take into account how a journalist gets their stories, the rules they have to follow, as well as the research that does into the job. By…

Capital punishment is a controversial issue all around the world. One focal point of the issue is this question; Does killing really allow the criminals to contemplate on their actions and possibly compensate for their misdemeanors? The Children of Men by P.D. James and the film that is based off of said novel seeks to answer this question by examining what people do and become when all hope is lost. Set in a dystopian future England, The Children of Men explores the theme of hope and faith…

Dorothea Lange is one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Born in May 1895 in the United States her real last name was Nutzhorn. Lange was the maiden name of her mother, which Dorothea adopted as her own. She learned photography was enrolling in the New York school Clarence H. White, an American photographer, teacher and one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession movement, his influences where family and the rural social life of America. She studied there…

Within the world of photojournalism, he is truthfully a legend. Riis was one of the first to expose the ugly parts of the world through non-traditional means of spreading news, while being one of the first people to experiment with flash photography. Through the use of art in the…