Book Introduction: Photojournalism
In my opinion photojournalism is when people use pictures to be direct and show what they want to show. They want to that people understand what the picture is showing, they do not want to create more than one meaning in one picture, they want to be simple and direct.
The history of photojournalism and the history of photography go hand in hand. The practice of broadcasting images in the media began early in 1880, through the Daily newspaper in New York.
The term “photojournalism”, however, was coined only in the early decades of the twentieth century. Its first place of application was the illustrated magazines, which mixed the usual texts with photos. This media peaked in Germany in the 1930's.
Maybe one of the most famous applications of photojournalism is the record of military and civil strife. This action, which I call madness, of covering wars began in 1854, with the registration of the Crimean War (1854 - 1855) by British photographer Roger Fenton.
At the time, still with much present censorship and influences from other media (such as painting), the photos of wars still used a more artistic language of the realist. The images mostly depicted soldiers in heroic poses or empty battlefields.
The record of post-Crimean War conflicts, however, already bore the characteristics of photojournalism: images recording actions and events as they were.
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