Photojournalism : The Professionals' Approach

by Kobre

• ISBN13: 9780240804156
• ISBN10: 0240804155
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-04
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Photojournalism blends insightful interviews with professionals, sharp practical experience, and high-impact photographs to create the definitive text on photojournalism. Individual case studies draw upon the experience of leading photojournalists and delve into their reasons for making the decisions they did, showing readers how working professionals handle on-the-job challenges. This revised and reorganized edition features an updated imaging chapter and new material on finding feature pictures, picture editing, ethics, law and wartime censorship, more interviews with professional and a new design to help recreate the impact the photos had in their original context. The result is a stunning and dramatic showcase to the best of photojournalism. Photojournalism includes new interviews with well known photojournalists, such as, Anne Wells story of a Pulitzer Prize Photo, John Gaps III of the Associated Press, David Kennerly of Newsweek, Diana Walker and PF Bently of Time. Features valuable tips from leading practitioners and see the best in U.S. photojournalism images from newspapers nationwide Now includes information on digital imaging Interviews with celebrated photojournalists are accompanied by hundreds of black and white and color photographs

Table of Contents

Dedication	v
Preface	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
Assignment	2	(22)
Spot News	24	(20)
General News	44	(14)
Covering the Issues	58	(26)
Features	84	(14)
Portraits	98	(16)
Sports	114	(22)
The Photo Story	136	(34)
Photo Illustrations	170	(18)
Photo Editing	188	(30)
Cameras & Film	218	(26)
Digital Images	244	(16)
Strobe	260	(22)
The Law	282	(18)
Ethics	300	(29)
History	329	(31)
Selected Bibliography	360	(9)
Index	369