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Within a decade, the professional glow had faded. Television, a latent threat to the press since its first practical demonstration in 1929, had undercut the prosperity of the picture magazines: Look vanished in 1971; LIFE suspended publication in 1972. Tensions erupted between editors -- text oriented, even at picture magazines -- and...
In 1954 Robert Capa was killed by a land mine at Thai Binh, as one Indochina war ended and another began. News photography in the U.S. focused instead on the 1958 Marine landing in Lebanon, Ike's departure, the enthralling arrival of the Kennedys. For the first time, the White...
There are hundreds of unforgettable news pictures. Some record great events, others the small but resonant ones. in our view these ten -- images of war and peace, love and hate, poverty and triumph -- are the ones indelibly pressed upon the mind and heart.
Photojournalists know the future of the form will depend upon their power to make it new, as Ezra Pound used to say, to take full command of new resources and navigate some fishy waters. In the '80s color clinched its victory. The gravity of black-and-white, the hard and...
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...