History of photojournalism

Based on my knowledge and research photojournalism is defined as a way of us keeping our history and preserving memories and it is also a way of telling story through pictures to provide us with information so we can understand what is going on the other side of the world. photojournalist try to find stories to tell us that is meaningful, and would be interesting to us the reader, viewers. One website http://photography.lovetoknow.com/History_of_Photojournalism.

according to  “Frank Luther Mott, historian and dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism really became familiar after World War II (1939-1945). Germany's photo magazines established the concept, but Hitler's rise to power in 1933 led to suppression and persecution of most of the editors, who generally fled the country. Many came to the United States. and The time was ripe, of course, for the establishment of a similar style of photo reporting in the U.S. Henry Luce, already successful with Time and Fortune magazines, conceived of a new general-interest magazine relying on modern photojournalism. It was called Life, launched Nov. 23, 1936.
 knowing the importance of photojournalism it helps us know our past and present we are able to go back and take a look at our past during the war, great depression, women getting jobs all this makes great history of journalism. all this are what makes photojournalism good we keep our past and present.
https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/walter-cronkite.jpg
 this an image of one of the most famous journalist Walter Cronkite

photo by https://historymartinez.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/great-depression-a.jpg

Here is my time line powerpoint

Can Photographs Change the World?

Yes photojournalism will change the world; we live in an age where everything is being captured on camera whether if it’s through a cell phone or through the lens of a professional camera. We have to report and capture the news as it happens, they also allow us to see and know what is going on around the world.
As we progress through the years and technology also progression photography and photojournalists are going to more needed than ever. Capturing what’s going around the world through the lens and then on print speaks volume.

One of the photography that has had an impact in my life is the shoot death of Trayvon Martin, Looking at the image of him in that hoody that picture capture the innocent of a child. Then I look at my child and think that is this going to happen to my child, his hits close to home for me because I have two young boys that I have to rise  and I often think about this case and the circumstances involving the of this young man. a lot of time we often don't here about such local news coverage, now that people have phones that have cameras things are no longer kept in the dark any more. Photograph and photojournalist going to places and capturing and videoing we are able to know and see what goes on the other side of states or the world.

here is a little information about Trayvon http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/trayvonmartin.html

http://www.unheardvoicesmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/trayvon-martin-300x194.png

One of the first researchers to produce photographic images using silver halide chemistry was Schultze. As early as 1727, he formed metallic silver images by first reacting solutions of silver nitrate and white chalk and then exposing these solutions to light through stencils. Schultze's work was improved upon through the efforts of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre who, in 1837, developed a process for printing images on a silver coated copper plate. This type of printed image, called a daguerreotype in honor of its primary inventor, is made by polishing and cleaning a silver-coated copper plate and then reacting the silver coating with iodine vapors to form light-sensitive silver iodide. The silver iodide coated plate is then exposed to light through the optics of a camera that projects and focuses an image on the plate. In the ensuing reaction, the silver ions are reduced to silver metal. Finally, the plate is treated with mercury to produce an amalgam. In this type of print, the areas of the plate exposed to light appear white and the unexposed areas remain dark. The problem with this method was that it required long exposure times because the intensity of the image depends solely on the strength of the light forming the image.

Read more: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Photograph.html#ixzz4LJwjnTFd