Photojournalism

What is Photojournalism?

It is telling a story with photographs

Provides information and entertainment

It is a story-telling medium Combines images and writing on a

more thorough given subject.

Why is photojournalism important?

Photos make or break a paper We depend on photojournalists

every day It is an integral part of our

lives

What is photography?

It is derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw")

The word was first used by scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839

* It is a method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material.

 

Camera Obscura (Dark room): It was a dark box or room with a hole on one end.

-If the hole was small enough, an inverted image would be seen on the opposite wall.

Types of Cameras

Camera obscura c. 18th century

Sliding box camera (1850s)

Talbot’s mousetrap (1839)

Voigtländer / Petzval lens (1841)

The Tourograph (1897)

Sanderson Regular (1903-1920)

Sanderson Regular

Stereo Weno (1902-1903)

 

The Kodak (1888-1889)

Kodak replica 1988

Kodak pocket (1895-1900)

No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak (1903-1915)

British copy of the American Speed Graphic. (1940)

Hasselblad 1600F (1948-1952)

 

Transition designs of cameras

1934

1935

1963

1971

1976

Minolta Pocket Instamatic

Olympus twin lens reflex