Photojournalism

Photojournalism reports news and events through photographs, often paired with captions or written accounts. Its images document events and shape how the public understands them.

Visual storytelling: Communication that conveys events or ideas through images and their arrangement. Photojournalism uses image sequences and composition to report events visually.
Daguerreotype: An early photographic process that produced a unique image on a silver-coated plate. This process enabled early photographic records of people and events.
Robert Capa: A Hungarian-American war photographer who co-founded Magnum Photos. Capa's combat photographs helped define the modern image of the frontline correspondent.
The Falling Soldier: A photograph attributed to Robert Capa that appears to show a Spanish Republican soldier being shot. Its authenticity debate illustrates how a photograph's circumstances can become contested.
Public opinion: The distribution of views held by members of a population on public matters. Widely circulated news photographs can influence how people judge events and policy.
Photo caption: Text accompanying a photograph that identifies or explains its subject and context. Captions establish who, where, and when a news photograph depicts.
Crimean War photography: Photographic documentation of the Crimean War by Roger Fenton and other photographers. Fenton's 1855 photographs became an early, influential record of war for the public.
Dorothea Lange: An American documentary photographer known for images of Depression-era poverty and migration. Lange's government-sponsored work showed how photographs could make social hardship visible.
Migrant Mother: A 1936 photograph by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson and her children. The image became an enduring symbol of hardship during the Great Depression.
Collective memory: Shared representations of the past held by a group or society. Iconic photographs help societies remember events through a small set of images.

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