Word: photojournalistic
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...missed the irony of Ngor's death: he had survived four years in the slaughterhouse of Khmer Rouge Cambodia during the '70s, only to be struck down in the violence of an American city. In between he won an Oscar for his portrayal of fellow survivor and photojournalist Dith Pran in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Police are looking into whether Ngor, an outspoken benefactor of L.A.'s Cambodian-refugee community, was a victim of robbery or politics...
...20th century image bank consists in good part--some of the best part, you might say--of what was put there by Alfred Eisenstaedt. When he died last week at 96, he left behind one of the great lyric troves of modern photography. An incomparable photojournalist, "Eisie'' helped to make LIFE an indispensable scrapbook of the national memory. And even before that, in the 1920s, when many people still believed cameras could only take dictation, he had figured out their potential for poetry...
DIED. GEORGE RODGER, 87, photojournalist; in Smarden, England. Rodger's photographic diary of World War II for Life magazine climaxed at Bergen-Belsen. Sickened by what he recorded, Rodger vowed never to cover another war. He kept his word...
EXPECTING. PETER PARKER, 33, photojournalist who moonlights as Spiderman, and his red-haired wife MARY JANE PARKER, 29; a child, their first; in New York City...
...thus becomes the first photographer ever to win three of his profession's most coveted awards in a single year. The achievement confirms Nachtwey's place as the pre-eminent photojournalist of his time. His work reflects an iconic intensity that at times seems almost religious-appropriate for a man so moved by suffering that he cannot turn away from the tragedies he records. Nor can anyone else who sees, and is haunted by, his powerful images...