Photojournalism

Dorothea Lange's photos told the story of the Great Depression.

Photojournalism is taking photos to tell a story in mass media.^[1]^[2] The first photojournalist was Mathew Brady, who took pictures of the American Civil War. From World War II through the 1970s, many magazines and all the world's major newspapers had their own photographers. There was strong competition to take the best pictures. Later it became difficult to make money as a photojournalist, because the places to publish photos disappeared, and because there were many more photographers. ^[3]

Photojournalism Media

Black-and-white photograph of a National Guardsman looking over the Washington Monument in Washington D.C., on January 21, 2021, the day after the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States
Barricades on rue Saint-Maur (1848), the first photo used to illustrate a newspaper story
The Crawlers, London, 1876–1877, a photograph from John Thomson's Street Life in London photo-documentary
"Geronimo's camp before surrender to General Crook, March 27, 1886: Geronimo and Natches mounted; Geronimo's son (Perico) standing at his side holding baby." By C. S. Fly.
The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung pioneered modern photojournalism and was widely copied. Pictured, the cover of issue of 26 August 1936: a meeting between Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola.
Boy destroying piano at Pant-y-Waen, South Wales, by Philip Jones Griffiths, 1961
Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Photojournalists at the 2016 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool
Roger Fenton's Photographic Van, 1855, formerly a wine merchant's wagon; his assistant is pictured at the front.