all classes could view the entire world from the pages of newspapers and magazines. The birthplace of photojournalism was in Germany with the advancement of technology, manufacturers started to look into producing better quality lenses. Germany already had the most sophisticated printing technology and this was absolutely necessary to mass-produce thousands of prints for weekly magazines. They researched designs on new types of glass. In 1914 Oscar Barnack was a designer working for Leitz a German company which made microscopes. He designed a camera for his own personnel use which used a 35mm wide film made for movie cameras and within the next ten years Leitz developed the model and put it on the market under the name Leica. This was the
             true beginning of photojournalism, armed with a compact and reliable camera photographers could take amazing photographs without any hassle.
             background is a 1960's model of the
             It was not until the 1930's-1940's
             Photographers became spontaneous with the new Leica 35mm cameras. Gone were the days of studio photography and posing, instead photographers could go out into the streets and take photographs of everyday situations. 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. This was revolutionary. You could see how the reporter felt by the way he composed his photograph and by what the actual subject was.
             The 1925 Ermanox was a 6 x 9-cm plate and had a max aperture of f1.8. This camera was popular as used with sensitive plates it would give almost instant exposures using indoor light; there was no need for burning flashpowder. This camera used glass plates that had to be removed after each exposure. Therefore people began to take 'candid' photographs and this improved many newspapers and magazines during the 1930's. During the 1920's a large number of mass-media ma...