Photography has evolved a lot over the years. I knew shooting a photo used to take a long time to set up, since I have taken photography classes before. However, it must have been incredibly inconvenient for those photojournalists to document the news efficiently.
These days we can literally document the news in a flash, but there were true inefficiencies back then. For example, it was tedious to re-load the flash bulbs. I found the section about the flash especially interesting. It reminded me of Jimmy Stewart’s character in Rear Window, where he had to continually put in new flash bulbs into his flash. It makes me appreciate the electronic flash now.
The main point that I got from the history chapter in Photojournalism: The Professional’s Approach, though, is that photojournalism took a lot more work and effort back then. It is clear that technology is a true gift for us. It not only speeds up the process, but it increases the rate at which we can spread and receive information.
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