photo-journalism

Application
Photo-journalism is used to capture a moment in time for example an explosion during the world wars and then used for publication. The idea of truth in photo-journalism originally was a trustworthy theory but as technology has evolved we have found it easier in which to edit or manipulate the final image, therefore making the image a fake or untrustworthy product.

The time period in which this was first engineered and used was during the first world war but was discovered in the 1930's by Henri Cartier Bresson. The photos taken using this type of photography can and sometime will be used to represent the whole event and can change the views of the general public for example the execution picture in vietnam completely changed the minds of the American people in which it ended the vietnamese war.


Context
the pictures taken for this particular genre of photgraphy are usually used for publishing in magazine, papers, internet and posters. television is also used as a medium for the photo-journalist world for example some news companies may ask the viewers if they have any pictures of a certain event and send them in, in which we the viewers become the photo-jounalist.

Technology;
this has greatly improved since this method began with photography evolving to the use of digital cameras but when desicive moment was discovered the leica camera was a pinacle point in which it was the first instant capture camera that was fully portable this greatly improved the chances of capturing images at that exact point than previous technology at that time. Potability greatly changed the photographic world as it made events not normally accesable for photography accessable as they didt take alot of time to take a picture or to set up it was literally just a click of the button and the picture was taken.