Photojournalism
is a word to define how a photo can describe whets happening in society. Each
photo that a person comes across has a different meaning to it, a person can
think something about a photo and someone else can think something different of
it. When thinking of photojournalism you can also break it into two parts photos
and journalism. To make photojournalism into one word also is having journalists
that has a passion for photos. These photojournalists know when to take the
pictures, the idea of this also is to engage their viewers into their work. When
taking these photos you want to make sure the photo has a saying to it and that
it’s a beautiful picture where someone else may not be able to capture. Also as
professor Nordell stated in his video photojournalism are not nouns, “photojournaliststhey photograph verbs people doing things.”
Knowing the history
of photojournalism is very important. A video created by Holli history containsthe word story. “No boundaries” is history. History tells the past of certain
things and without photos you wouldn’t know the history of life. When I think
of history for photojournalism it can come down to plenty of things. One thing
is it challenges peoples mind to think outside, you can solve mystery with
photos, and appreciate different things of life. There is a huge range ofstyles and approaches that photojournalists take.
A photo that
captures my mind is a photo by Horst Faas called the Katangese Youth movement
in 1961 in Elisabethville, Congo. It
captured my attention because one it is African American kids that are standing
up for their rights. What also captured my eye is their clothing back in the
day African Americans did not live the greatest. They were poor and had to fend
for themselves. They had to do everything by hand. Now in the picture the
children have homemade wooden riffles , which I thought was cool because to me
it shows how creative African Americans could be and how they were hard
workers.
Photo by: Horst Faas
One last photo that shows history is a photo by W. Eugene smith of a wounded soldier. The photo took place in Okinawa in 1945. When I looked at this photo I thought of wars that I learned about in my recent school years. How soldiers fought for their lives and some did not make it home.
Photo by: W, Eugene Smith
Image Source: http://spartacus-educational.com/USAPsmithE.htm
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