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THE CHRONOLOGICAL STAGES OF PHOTOJOURNALISMThe origins of photojournalism can be seen in documentary photography as early as the 1870's. People were interested as to what far away countries looked like and what famous people looked like but never had the chance to see them. Photographers such as Roger Fenton went out and took photographs of the English troops in the Crimea. Over the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Matthew Brady brought together many photographers including Tim O' Sullivan to cover the American Civil War (1861-1865). Tim O' Sullivan went on to document Nevada and the Rockies. All used collodion plates. Documentary photography then progressed and went on to show the lives of the poor. Dr. Bernado hired professional photographers to take photographs of the boys who were brought in to the homes and then these photographs were mounted onto card and sold to raise money for the homes. John Thomson in 1877 published a book, Street Life in London; it contained photographs of the poor people in London.There are many elements that contributed to the beginnings of photojournalism, the 35mm camera was the main breakthrough and avid new photo reporters were eager to go out and take photographs. Editors of ne
This was something completely different form all the other photographs of the Second World War, as it was not actually soldiers but innocent people who had been made to look like the enemy of the Nazi regime. This camera used glass plates that had to be removed after each exposure. Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White allowed people to see the true horror of the Nazi regime. Germany already had the most sophisticated printing technology and this was absolutely necessary to mass-produce thousands of prints for weekly magazines. The photograph below shows the enormous size of the rockets used to propel the spacecraft into the endless darkness of space. Using a 2 ¼" Rolleiflex camera he would mix in with crowds and take candid photographs. Mydans began his career as a photographer for a New York newspaper. They researched designs on new types of glass. He was a brave man who made very clear that photography was his main passion in life. As there was not any more waiting for the long exposures people went out and if they saw something which was good they could point and shoot. Rumours could be made about wars and who was winning, what the conditions were like, but nobody had proof. In 1948 he covered the fighting in Palestine and finally in 1954 he covered the French Indochina War for Life magazine, and while walking onto a field he stepped onto a landmine which almost instantly killed him. Eugene Smith was part of a pictorial essay of Spain. Gone were the days of studio photography and posing, instead photographers could go out into the streets and take photographs of everyday situations.
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