Assessing the State of Photojournalism via the NYT’s Year in Pictures

Assessing the State of Photojournalism via the NYT’s Year in Pictures – PhotoShelter Blog

The end of the year brings about the annual deluge of “Pictures of the Year” packages. Teams of picture editors scour through thousands of photos to assemble jumbo-sized galleries filled with images that are supposedly representative – or at least eye-cat

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2017/12/assessing-state-photojournalism-nyts-year-pictures/

Each image and the galleries as a whole can be viewed for content and historical context. But for this exercise, we’ll look at the look-and-feel of the images to see how aesthetics, taste and technology have shifted what photojournalism looks like to the consumer.