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NEWS. What is news photography?. Photojournalism, the industrial strength version of photography, is an untidy collision of art, reportage and commercial publishing. Eyewitness edited by Richard Lacayo and George Russell

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  1. NEWS

  2. What is news photography? • Photojournalism, the industrial strength version of photography, is an untidy collision of art, reportage and commercial publishing. Eyewitness edited by Richard Lacayo and George Russell • Newspaper studies show that the eye goes first to the photograph, then to the headline and finally to the word story. Photographs, however, do more than just attract attention for word stories. When planned, executed, and played well, photographs are capable of telling rich, emotional and informative stories of their own. • Visuals don't have to repeat the information presented in a word story.."a visual image is no different than a carefully crafted story. A visual image should be scrutinised for it's visual content and it's perceived message” quotes by Loup Langton Photojournalism and today's news Wiley Blackwell 2009

  3. Why do we remember images? • Nonstop imagery (television, streaming video, movies) is our surround, but when it comes to remembering, the photograph has the deeper bite. Memory freeze-frames; it’s basic unit is the single image. In an era of information overload, the photograph provides a quick way of apprehending something and a compact for memorizing it. Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others 2003

  4. Is photojournalism “the frontline of history”? • “It is the photographer that writes history these days” Colliers Weekly Magazine 1913 • Every journalist knows that the most effective way to influence opinion is by the selection and arrangement of appropriate facts. • No document can tell us more than what the author of the document thought had happened. E H Carr What is History • This process is known as MEDIATION

  5. The addresser of a text is the position it constructs as its source. The addressee of a text is the position it constructs as it’s destination. Though these may seem fine distinctions, they are crucial. They suggest that we may be able to talk about what happens in texts in specifically textual ways, without having recourse to hypotheses about what their sender may have intended to mean, or without having to guess about what their effects on a single given receiver might be. Tony Thwaites et al. Introducing Cultural and Media Studies: A Semiotic Approach 2002

  6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPfMqQkBLiY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6xZFODXgw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUmcgLmHdg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdurP2fLvAQ&feature=related

  7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/basetrack/ http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2025638/marines-pull-plug-photojournalism-experiment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aGhPaqSso&noredirect=1

  8. Additional Reading • Photography: A Critical Introduction edited by Liz Wells: Routledge 1998 Chapter 2 Surveyors and Surveyed by Derrick Price • The First Casualty by Philip Knightley : Quartet 1978

  9. News Research Task Choose a recent News story and find two different types of coverage for that story. Prepare a statement that discusses the two different approaches to the same story. Who is the addresser in each story, who is the addressee?

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