Every morning we wake up and read the
newspaper. There is always a picture on the first page which shows the
important news of the day. Such a picture is a result of what we know as
photojournalism.
Once photography grew popular and became
easy to do, it started getting specialised in its use. By this, you must
understand that soon after the discovery of photography people were very
excited and busy getting their photos taken. Soon they started travelling with
the camera, gathering pictures of far off places and showed them to people who
could not get there.
Wars were happening in the world;
photographers went to such places and took pictures. Such photographers were
the first war photojournalists. Still it was not possible to print these
pictures on the newspaper alongside the written news.
Around the 1880s, a technology called half
tone developed by which photographs could be printed in the newspapers.
Photojournalism as we know today is news photography. Photographs that support
the story of a news event fall in this category and photographers who
specialise in this are called photojournalists.
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