Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the officer placed his hat over the photographer's lens, the Crimson editor asked if he was familiar with the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, a law which bars anyone from intimidating people in an effort to keep them from exercising their rights under the Constitution or other laws.
That the camera could achieve a distinctly poetic justice would be proved a few years later by Lewis Hine, a onetime photography teacher who worked with a reformer's sense of mission and an artist's eye. Riis' pictures were raw; Hine's were frank but tender, with none of...
In a brief time of peace, photojournalism waged war against privacy. A decisive weapon appeared in 1924: the Ermanox, a miniature glass-plate camera with a wide-aperture lens. The camera could operate in dim light and without great intrusion. Erich Salomon, a German with a talent for discretion, stalked...
Now think of time as a raging torrent, swollen with the trophies of war, disaster, luck and adventure. Pluck from the current some unidentified floating object. Pass it around. Put it on display. Argue about what it means. That's photojournalism. No one knows exactly when it was born, but...
Photojournalism's future depends upon access too. During the past decade, places long closed to the lens have opened up. Some American courtrooms admitted cameras for the first time. So did a few long-sealed precincts of life in the Soviet Union. But there were other spots where, at various...