Photography In The 1800s

Photography has been around since 1800’s and stories have been around forever, so putting them together Photojournalism becomes possible. Putting stories and pictures together have shaped magazines, newspapers even lives. Action is captured by camera lens and told by writers that share stories needing to be heard. With the increasing technology process Photography has become known to all and becoming more common. The digital world is taking over Photography and will keep getting better as the future and technology progress.
The word Photography is derived from the Greek language, “photo” meaning “light” and “Graphein” that means, “to draw”(Bellis 1). Photography is “ a method of recording images by the action of light or related radiation
Then came Life magazine created by Henry Luce who created two other magazines called “Time and Fortune”. “Life debuted in November of 1936” and was a photo magazine it would incorporate photos that told stories and “relied on photojournalism” (Collins 4). There were many other look-a-like magazines that followed “Life like Look, See, Photo etc. but none of them were as successful as Life became to be” (Collins 5). In the late 1970’s Photojournalism became well known “exhibitions and retrospectives at museums and galleries” they were popping up all over the country (Westbrook 6). A man named “Frank Luther Mott historian and dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he came up with the term Photojournalism”(Collins 3). “Photojournalism is the use of photographs in conjunction with the reporting of the news: newspapers, magazines, television news and Internet reporting”(Westbrook 1The main principles for being a journalist are “timeliness, accuracy, fair representation of facts and events and accountability”(Westbrook 2). Journalists have to be “concerned with producing accurate news for the public”(Westbrook 2). “Photojournalists are visual reporters, public places trust in its reporters to tell the truth, the same trust is extended to Photojournalists as visual reporters”(Hancock 5). A Photojournalist takes the best of the
“Over the years, the assignments that a photojournalist shoots remains pretty constant, but the technology has changed and a photo that took five hours on wired service now takes a mere five seconds”(Lent 3). The “photos quality have gotten remarkably better as the years go on as well”(Lent 3). Within this modern society digital and wireless have become key words in photojournalists words now. Having the ability to take a million photos on one camera and send then thousands of miles away in a click of a button. Digital photography “has opened up new doors for photojournalists. It increases the market and an accelerated pace for the transmission of news through photographic images.”(Westbrook 7) Also with digital photographers “are not limited to film, the can have a thousand plus images on one camera. Now with “wireless internet photojournalists can send images from the field to the editor within seconds of their capture.”(Westbrook 7) With all this new technology meant more money being spent, with new equipment such as DSLR’s and computers that can keep up in software and with being in the field you are looking at 6,000 bucks (Lent 6). But what that 6,000 bucks can get you is images that are magnificent and having the ability to sent it to the editor in a blink of an