Credibility

Apresentação da síntese final do artigo The ‘Greatest Of War Photograhers’ de Thierry Gervais. O artigo tem como figura central o fotógrafo Jimmy Hare, e levanta algumas questões fulcrais sobre a natureza da fotografia na sua relação com a imprensa no virar do século XIX. Partilha iniciada em Halftone.

“But photojournalism is more than a practice that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century and underwent a massive expansion in the 1930s; it must also be seen as a new phase in the search for credibility of news publications in general. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, news publications consistently adopted new forms of coverage which were heralded as being more faithful to the events themselves.”