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Dates: during 1980-1989
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150 Years of Photojournalism is a first for TIME: a single-topic, single- advertiser issue that is being sent free of charge to all 4.3 million subscribers. (The issue will also be on sale at retail locations for the next month.) The topic is one that TIME has helped shape...
Think of time as a small stream scattered with flowers and flowing relentlessly past. Pick up a petal. Examine it, savor it, press it away between the pages of private memory. That's photography. Its birth was announced in 1839, when the French Academy made public Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre...
The pictures have been piling up for 150 years. Battlefields, floods, summit conferences, auto accidents, congratulatory handshakes, game-winning touchdowns. Most scenes vanish quickly into the newspaper morgue. A few, however, linger in the mind's eye. Of the billions of metal sheets, glass plates, celluloid spools and other light...
No sooner had the camera been invented than it was turned toward the major events of the day: war, economic growth and global expansion.
At the same time, there were critics and photographers asking whether the power of pictures dwindled as their numbers rose -- whether, as the practice of concerned photography wore on, its impact wore off, so that only the most sensational images registered on the brain. Now that every kind of grief...