Photojournalism up to the 1970's

Photography couldnt be processed until the 1980's so "Woodcut" (a form of engraving) was used to show the image.

Example of "Woodcut"

In the 1900's Roger Fenton would photography The Crimean War and produce photos of soldiers in the war, they would be used as propagander and photojournalism. The pupil would be able to see photos from the War and want more. Therefore, there was a popular demand for news worhty events and printed media became more popular.

Back then to take the photography of the "The Valley of the Shadow of Death" Fenton would have seven techniqutions to take one image and his equipment would have to be wheeled about.

The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

Photos were used in the media as use of evidence.

Below are some photographers well known in that era for there photos.

William Carrick (People photography, 1859)

Timothy O'Sullivan (1986)

T.G Dugdale 1867 (Piebrown girl)
Seen more in galleries, the originals were kept in Musuems such as London, Paris, Berlin etc..
The woodcut would be more in the media. Photography was being used for evidence of society.

Willoughby Hooper
Captain in the British Army, know for his work "Loss of the hurd"

John Thompson
Limited edition book called "The street Crawlers of Victorian London" He was foreign to a particular culture (not easy to take images of people on the streets)

Jacob Reece (New York)
Experienced of imigrants go to New York and trying to find work (New York know for being the "Land of Dreams") He went there to capture how the other half live. So the people with no work and no home.

O'Hoscar Anschutz
He made his images with a half tone print effect. Fom then technology developed upto the 1900's such as detail photos

BIG MOMENT

Artitifical lighting and flash powder was invented in the late 1800's

Lewis Hine

Humphrey Spender

Helen Levitt

Margaret Bourke White

Aurther Rothstein

Walker Evans

Gorgan Parks

Dorothea Lang

Ben Shahn

Wegee

Hugene Smith

Robert Cappa

Elliot Periwt

John Bulmur

Terrance Donovan