Dead or Alive? The State of Photojournalism | David Campbell

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Dead or alive? The state of photojournalism – David Campbell

Photography has always been associated with death. The French painter Paul Delaroche is supposed to have proclaimed, “From today, painting is dead” after he saw his first daguerreotype. Whatever the provenance of that quote, miniature portrait painting wa

via David Campbell: http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/10/05/dead-or-alive-the-state-of-photojournalism/

That fact that as a practice, as a mode of information, photojournalism and documentary photography is very much alive is because over the last fifty years it has not tied its entire future to modes of distribution that are now undergoing revolutionary changes. That future has many challenges, but it is a future that has already moved well beyond the fortunes of newspapers and magazines.