Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. — 340 p. This groundbreaking book explores our political leaders and campaigns, crime, war and censorship, international events, disasters and trauma, sport, celebrity, gender, race and migration. It maps the technological evolution in the industry from the dark room to digital, from picturegram machines to iPhones, and from the death...
Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. — 340 p. This groundbreaking book explores our political leaders and campaigns, crime, war and censorship, international events, disasters and trauma, sport, celebrity, gender, race and migration. It maps the technological evolution in the industry from the dark room to digital, from picturegram machines to iPhones, and from the death...
Harry N Abrams, 1998. — 208 p. The Associated Press is the world's foremost news organization; it, more than any other source, shapes the news that Americans - indeed the world - see, hear and read every day. Here, more than 150 of the AP's greatest photographs, including many Pulitzer Prize winners, have been brought together in a moving and historic record of some of the...
Black Star Publishing Co., 2012. — 57 p. There’s an old saying that there are no atheists in foxholes. When threatened or under fire, people inevitably cling to something certain to guide them through uncertain times. In life and death situations, this something is often a Bible. Today, the profession of photojournalism as we know it is threatened by technological...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 254 p. Photojournalism provides an analysis of press photography from a social semiotic perspective. It explores the role of photography in the news and how meanings are made in news photographs. It also investigates the meanings that are made at the intersection of words and images in the news story context. This is becoming increasingly important...
Lippincott & Crowell, 1980. — 180 p. Press photography is, today, a very fashionable profession. It has regained a respectability that it once held in its infant days. I am not, of course, referring to the modern Paparazzi type of photographer who uses more brawn than brain. It is the hard-working press photographer I refer to, whose work fills the pages of newspapers and...
J.B. Lippincott, 1949. — 200 p. While securing material for my many books, it has been my privilege to interview scores of men whose dangerous occupations were on land, on sea, in the air, under ground and under water. Although most of them had been face to face with death many times, not one would admit that his job was perilous; indeed they insisted that, compared with...
Viking, 2015. — 224 p. A profoundly moving collection of unforgettable photographs from conflict zones around the worldPaul Grabhorn’s stunning four-color photographs tell an amazing, essential story — one of hope in the face of violence and deplorable conditions, of dignity in the midst of degradation, of light in the darkness of war and suffering. Taken on his travels with...
Viking, 2015. — 224 p. A profoundly moving collection of unforgettable photographs from conflict zones around the world Paul Grabhorn’s stunning four-color photographs tell an amazing, essential story — one of hope in the face of violence and deplorable conditions, of dignity in the midst of degradation, of light in the darkness of war and suffering. Taken on his travels with...
Allyn and Bacon, 2002. — 380 p. Discusses important topics in the growing visual communication field. It is the first book to combine all of the information necessary to start anyone on a successful visual communication career. This book examines the historical context of visual journalism while providing insights into modern-day applications of media processes critical to the...
O'Relly Verlag, 2011. — 196 s. Language: German Im Lokaljournalismus wird es immer üblicher, dass die schreibenden Journalisten neben Notizbuch und Stift auch eine Kamera in die Hand nehmen, um "mal eben" ein Bild für Ihre Zeitung zu schießen. All jenen Journalisten, denen Kamera und Bildgestaltung als ein nur schwer zu durchdringendes Geheimnis erscheint, möchte der Autor mit...
Bloomsbury, 2015. — 321 p. The current decline of print journalism, the rise of the Internet and the advent of digital photography provides the perfect point in time from which to reflect on the ubiquity of the news picture. Powerful and controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have...
Rotovision, 2002. — 148 p. — (Black and White Photography). Documenting human life and events has long preoccupied photographers, and given them wonderfully varied and challenging subject matter. This book brings together a striking collection of black and white images from a leading selection of international photographers and through them Terry Hope explores the techniques...
2nd Edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2000. — 228 p. Written by noted AP photographer and photoeditor Brian Horton, this is an insider’s manual to one of the most glamorous and exciting media professions. Emphasizing the creative process behind the photojournalist’s art, Brian Horton draws upon his three decades of experience, as well as the experiences of other award-winning...
Associated Press, 1989. — 164 p. Picture usage in American newspapers is changing - and changing dramatically. The role of photography in recent years has become more Significant. It all boils down to photography. And that's what this book. "The Picture," is all about. It is a companion volume to AP's "The Word," a book about good writing. Together they delve into the mysteries...
Amphoto, 1965. — 168 p. "I believe you are correct in your assumption that there is no single book which would meet the needs as a text for a class in magazine photojournalism." So begins a letter to Lou Jacobs, Jr. by Cliff Edom, Director of Photojournalism at the University of Missouri. Free-Lance Magazine Photography fulfills that need. It shows everyone — high schooler,...
Collins Design, 2001. — 148 p. On September 11, 2001, with the terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City, the United States entered one of the greatest trials in its history. There were thousands of deaths in the wake of that tragedy -- and thousands of heroes. Led by Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik and Fire Commissioner Thomas Von...
4th Edition. — Focal Press, 2000. — 388 p. Photojournalism blends insightful interviews with professionals, sharp practical experience, and high-impact photographs to create the definitive text on photojournalism. Individual case studies draw upon the experience of leading photojournalists and delve into their reasons for making the decisions they did, showing readers how...
Curtin & London, 1980. — 356 p. Photojournalism: A Professionals' Approach blends insightful interviews with professionals, practical experience, current equipment and camera technology, and high-impact photographs to create the definitive book on photojournalism. The DVD features footage of working professionals handling on-the-job challenges. This revised edition features...
University of Minnesota Press, 2014. — 280 p. In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict photography and other forms of...
WCB, 1991. — 364 p. This book is intended for first- and second-semester courses in photojournalism. It is organized into four sections, the first being an introduction to the medium. The introduction attempts a definition of photojournalism and explains the differences between pictures made for publication and those made for personal purposes. Part II is for those who are...
2nd Edition. — WCB, 1995. — 370 p. This book is intended for first and second-semester courses in photojournalism. Because each instructor organizes his or her course differently, it is impossible to create a text that everyone can follow straight through from beginning to end. I jump around in every textbook I use, and this one is no exception. I have, however, tried to group...
Life, 2003. — 180 p. More great pictures about the 2003 War in Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein. As in the Time book about the same campaign, there are some great pictures in this book. On the writing side, there is little meat in this book and for one to better understand this conflict, they need to read elsewhere. However the pictures are great and one will get a general...
Smithsonian Books, 2010. - 280 p. Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-nine of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing how the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change. The second edition includes a new section of interviews on documentary photography in the...
Pluto Press, 2016. — 321 p. In 2005, a group of photographers took a stand alongside the people of the small town of Bil’in, and documented their fight to stop the Israeli government building the infamous West Bank Barrier. Inspired by what they had seen in Bil’in, the group went on to form Activestills, a collective whose work has become vital in documenting the struggle...
Amphoto, 1967. — 136 p. Photojournalism is universally acknowledged as the most exciting area of professional photography, and the area to which most amateurs aspire. Despite the trend toward consolidation among large metropolitan newspapers, photojournalist Lee Payne points out, there are 10,000 newspapers in t h e United States, and the number of community-minded and locally-...
Peachpit Press, 2013. — 264 p. In this comprehensive, practical guide, award-winning photojournalist Stacy Pearsall offers the techniques, guidance, and inspiration needed to succeed in the dynamic and exciting field of photojournalism. Starting with an overview of photojournalism and her experience as both a combat and domestic photographer, Stacy covers the basics of...
Routledge, 2013. — 384 p. Journalism of Ideas is a comprehensive field guide for brainstorming, discovering, reporting, digitizing, and pitching news, opinion, and feature stories within journalism 2.0. With on-the-job advice from professional journalists, activities to sharpen your multimedia reporting skills, and dozens of story ideas ripe for adaptation, Dan Reimold helps...
4th Edition. — Amphoto, 1979. — 232 p. Photojournalism requires a constant evaluation. For the photographer in this exciting field of visual communication, technical proficiency is not enough. It takes effort to keep up with the changes in photographic technology, such as new films and equipment, but this is a relatively easy task compared with the problem of maintaining high...
Cricket Books, 2003. — 144 p. Flip Schulke has photographed Elvis Presley, Mohammed Ali, Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, and the early astronauts of the American space program. He has shot film underwater with Jacques Cousteau, and in the path of racecars. During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Schulke's images stunned American magazine readers,...
Allworth Press, 2000. — 260 p. Market savvy, expert research, and first-rate resources combine to make this book the tutor that can take experienced photojournalists to new heights of success — while showing aspiring photojournalists how to begin their climb in a stimulating and rewarding field. Step-by-step instructions tell how to establish a business, implement the latest...
Amphoto, 1982. — 200 p. Tony Spina (1914-1995) was the chief photographer of the Detroit Free Press. During his 44 years at the paper, Spina received more than 450 state, national and international awards for his photography including a Pulitzer Prize. In On Assignment, Spina describes how an experienced news photographer thinks and works. He details the photojournalism...
Focal Press, 1998. — 196 p. Editorial, press and PR photographers need to be able to take a range of interesting and informative photographs - from celebrity portraits to magazine covers, news events, promotional pictures and fashion assignments. Success in these areas requires not just individual flair and skill, but an ability to market those talents in order to win space in...
2nd Edition. — Ebook, 2016. — 84 p. We are consumers. Every day, we consume food, drink, products, and we even consume pictures. Lots of pictures. We see them in newspapers, magazines, digital print and, as consumers, we don’t think twice about what we consume. So let’s think twice: after you weed out the garbage, the meat of what we consume is art; art in the form of...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 428 p. Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events-terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations–its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the...
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