Chapter 2

The speed graphic camera was first introduce in 1912 in Rochester, New York by Graflex. It is called the famous press camera. It has been the most used camera from 1930s until the 1950s. The word speed came its capability to have a maximum speed of 1/1000 sec. that could be achieve with the focal plane shutter. The speed graphic camera was engineer for commercial photography such as documentaries, landscape photography, and weddings.

Photo By: David Burnett

http://petapixel.com/2013/02/08/david-burnetts-speed-graphic-photos-of-the-london-2012-olympics/

There haven’t a camera similar to the speed graphic cameras. “The Speed Graphic has not been manufactured since 1973 and most photographers today are unable to make a direct comparison”. It introduces photographer to the new two shutters, focal plane and in lens. Nothing in the graphic was automatic, everything was manual which took a longer process to take a photo. Photographer started from black and white to color which brighten up the world. According to Professor Nordell, "The term photography is derived from two Greek words, meaning light, phos, and writing graphic."

A speed graphic camera compares to a mostly use Canon 5d Mark III camera can be challenging. According to Burnett “Speed Graphic is challenging in and of itself. Focus is always an issue. Loading the film in a timely manner and getting yourself where you need to be, while schlepping around two different systems is a constant challenge”. Its easily for today photography to not have to carry around much equipment as in the 1930s.

Auther Weegee is the most famous speed graphic camera user. His famous quote “f/8 and Be There” has been a philosophy for street photographer. He came from a time where photographer is nothing like today. Aperture and priority shutter didn’t exist in the 1930s, “Calculations needed to be done in your head and even the best photographers would need at least a few seconds to figure out the correct exposure”.

Chapter 1: Can Photography change the World

I believe that photojournalism can help change a small part of the world but not too much. A photo of a man standing in front of tanks, shows his bravery to stand for what he is protesting for. We as people will see that and some will say he had lost his mind for not moving but others will state that we should start fighting and standing for what we believe in and make the change that need to happen. According to Jonathan Klein of Getty Images “images themselves do not change the world, images have provoked reactions inpeople and those reactions have caused change to happen.”

Photo By: Unknown

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Photography is a source of media and can reach out the across the world. People use the media to cover news and entertainment. You can take a photo that is worth a thousand words and show it to the world but the government or media companies can also have a say on the photo if they want it to be publish or not. As you might not know, there are restriction on what people can publish as a photo. Six companies control 90% of the media in the world. Frugal says it "the illusionof choice,". 

Alexander Zemlianichenko took a photo of Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert which shown the Russians public that he was healthful and ready to serve his country as president again in the 1996 elections. According to the first video “It had a major hand in tipping the election in Yeltsin favor”.

In theGuardian post “Antonio French, an alderman in nearby St Louis, spent days posting to Twitter pictures and a series of videos of the demonstrationsand police actions that he captured on his mobile phone – and was reportedlyarrested and then released on Wednesday evening. He is a citizen journalist ofthe best kind: a credible witness who has helped inform the wider public abouta critical matter. Can anyone plausibly doubt that he and the two professionaljournalists who were briefly taken into custody after police demanded they stoprecording were targeted because they were documenting law enforcement actions?” There are always two parts in a story report. The part you want people to comment on and the story you don’t want anybody to know about.  As in the Ferguson case, the police department didn’t want the wrong doing of the cops to be broadcast but with the uproar of the public criticizing the incident. It was a major event that took place and needed change.  

Professor Nordell states “in Egypt the uprising there,a lot ofthe information got out through twitter and five years ago that revolution wouldn’thad happen without using the internet as a source of media”.  

Eros Hoagland is a war photojournalist. He doesn’t believe that his photos can change the world. "My pictures and the pictures of mycolleagues, they don't really change anything. So let's not pretend like theydo. You want to help people? Become a doctor and work in some poor neighborhoodwhere people can't afford health care. That's how you help people."  Sometimes it takes more than photos to make a change. You have to go out in the world and make that change.  

Photo By: Eros Hoagland
http://www.emptykingdom.com/featured/eros-hoagland/

PhotoJournalism History

Photojournalism transform from printing images, to stretching, till the first photo being taken. People travel around the world to take photos of all sort of different things such as unique places and things that catches the eye. Photojournalism give us more of a realistic touch to object then actually reading a article.  As Professor Nordell stated, “If you break up the word photojournalism into two words, photo and journalism, it means photographs created to be published in journals”

It is interesting how we as people believe the news that broadcasts or publications tell us without photo or video proof. Photojournalism is a way of telling the news without having to use as many words because an image, moving or still, was involved. As the quote says a picture is worth a thousands words and a video should be worth a million. With this particular form of journalism, it has many different divisions which makes it dimensional. Ranging from celebrity photography to street photography, to documentary photography and more the images of the event that photojournalist present have to be recent, display accurate representation and be relatable to readers or viewers. 

With journalism overall being the work and allocation of reports through interaction of people, events, ideas or facts to inform those who watch, read or listen, actually being able to reporting those thing may become challenging at times. Accurate news through picture seems as if it could present many hurtles because of public access, weather, or even physical danger but when you're a photojournalist sometimes you have to have to get some cuts and scrapes to get an image or video for your story.

 Robert Capa stated “if your pictures aren’t good enough, your not close enough”. Robert suffer a serious injury which causes his death by standing by his quote and risking his life for a photo.

It is important to understand the history of Photojournalism and where did it come from and start. Alost of people tend to find history very boring and pointless.  According to Ken Burns “People tend to forget the word “history” contains the word “Story.”  Gaining of knowledge of the past is the key to be successful in the future. Learning from our ancestors can help us evolve to become better as humans. Professor Nordell explained, “Actually it started with Mathew Brady’s photographs of the civil war, considered by many to be the beginning of photojournalism..”.

Zoriah states that “It’s an old war photographer saying that everybody wants to get an image that will stop war.”

Photo By: Thomas E. Franklin

http://imagedeconstructed.com/post/spotlight-on-thomas-franklin

Photo By: Robert Capa

http://121clicks.com/inspirations/robert-capa-inspiration-from-masters-of-photography