"Without photographies, photojournalism would be only it, journalism."
I am studying the second year of journalism and media and I love taking photos. So I am going to tell you a little bit about photojournalism.
Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a real story.
The most important features of photojournalism are:
- Timeliness: to have meaning in the context of a recently event
- Objectivity: the photography is a representation of the real event
- Narrative: it should be understandable
Now I am going to show you the more popular historical photographs.
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| Here we can see eleven workers having lunch in a 69th floor of a skyscraper under construction in New york in 1932. The photo was taken by Charles Ebbets. |
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| This photograph was taken in the 72nd birthday of Albert Einstein. That day he smiled for photographers many times, so he decided to stick out his tongue instead. |
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| Huynh Cong ''Nick'' took this photograph in 1972 during the Vietnam War. The girl appears is Kim Phuc, who now works in the Kim Phuc Organitation helping victim war children. |
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| This photograph was taken on 11th September in 2001, in United Estates, by Richard Drew during the attack on the Twin Towers. We can see a man falling from one of these towers. |
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| At least three photographers took this picture about an unknown man standing in front of four tanks during the 1989 People's Pepublic of China. |
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| Mike Wells took this photograph in 1980 in Karamoja, Uganda. A child dies of hunger and a missionary takes his hand. |
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| Martin Luther King made his famous speech ''I have a dream'' in 1963, in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. |
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| In this famous picture we can see an east german soldier helping a child to cross the new Berlin Wall to go with his family in 1961. |
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| Here we can see two friends helping a soldier to kiss his girlfriend outside the train in 1950 in California. |


















