My View On Photojournalism

How did photojournalists do their jobs without portable cameras, changeable lenses, and digital film? No one really thinks about this question because people are so invested in what we currently have rather than appreciate the process and evolution it took to get here. Nevertheless, photojournalism has been important f or centuries and consistently continues to be important. In the article on Gordon Parks, it read, “I saw that the camera could be used as a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of wrongs, I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” Although it has always been important, that does not mean it has always been as easy as it is now. In pre vious videos, Prof essor Nordell states that people used to wait in lines to see pictures because not everyone had access to them. In his most recent video “Before Pixels Part 1, Professor Nordell says that photojournalists used to have to make their subjects sit completely still for up to 8 minutes just so that a...

The answer to this question will forever be contemplated as long as pictures exist. There will never be one correct answer, but in my opinion, there is only one logical answer and that is yes. Pictures have the ability to talk to people in a special way that words can’t. Pictures tell stories, share perspectives, teach, and provide evidence and reason. Truthfully, without pictures, everyone would be living in their own bubble and can only imagine what life is like for the rest of the world. They have the ability to show us things that we cannot experience in our immediate life. So to answer the big question of “Can Photos Change the World?” the answer is yes. In his video, Jonathan Klein  says, “Images provoke reactions from people and those reactions cause change to happen.” Throughout the span of this course, I always took photos for granted. I never realized their truth worth until I understood the views of the people that were behind the camera capturing the pictures. In ...

Photojournalism is consistently overlooked by society. It can be something as violent as war, or something as peaceful as animals in nature. Photojournalists are involved in documenting anything and everything that we see in magazines, newspapers, journals, and articles. They have sense that something great is going to happen and they capture the moment. However, there is a method to their madness. They know what the important stories are during that time so that people will be more drawn to reading and looking at their art. Photojournalism is an art that people forget about, it is a moment in time that a person is able to capture using their intuition and having the ability to present it in a way that people will want to view it. Knowing the history of photojournalism is important because it has changed the way society views current news. Can you imagine reading an excerpt explaining a picture without the picture being there? You can imagine what it looks like, but what you ima...

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