Synopses & Reviews
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
Review
'Every press photographer should own this book, newcomer or old hand. Apart from being a manual for the profession, it's a wonderful source of ideas. Highly recommended.' - Professional Photographer
About the Author
Professor Ken Kobré directs the photojournalism sequence at San Francisco State University. He freelances extensively, and his photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, San Francisco Business, and The San Francisco Examiner.
Table of Contents
Assignment; Spot News; General News; Covering the Issues; Features; Portraits; Sports; The Photo Story; Photo Illustrations; Photo Editing; Cameras and Film; Digital Images; Strobe; The Law; Ethics; History