Thoughts & Theory – Page 18 – Visual Journalism

June 2, 2014

How Dependent is Art on the Artist?

We’re going to wander a little outside of the normal realm of visual journalism this morning and look at Richard B. Woodward’s piece in the Wall Street Journal*. It’s a good read, exploring the question of whether prints made by someone other than the photographer (or under their supervision) reflect the artistic vision of the photographer. I’ve never thought of...

Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 30, 2014

Overexposing Leads to Underexposure of Memories

NPR takes a look at the effect of too many photographs on memory development. The piece is aimed at families, more or less, but does it pertain to journalism, too? I think so – the sheer volume of images we are bombarded with every day is devaluing each one of them. As journalists, our goal shouldn’t be so-called “blanket coverage,”...

Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

May 20, 2014

Access Vs. Ownership

This may take some time to move around to journalism in your mind, but the connection is there. Over at Salon.com, Andrew Leonard has a piece up about getting his old hifi system worked on and how it’s indicative of an entire generation of music disappearing. I shall admit last month I dug my turntable out of the attic, revived...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

May 15, 2014

On Simplifying

The legendary David Alan Harvey on simplifying …

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

May 8, 2014

When Does an Image Become a Photograph?

Interesting thought piece by Richard B. Woodward at the Wall Street Journalabout the process of turning a negative into an actual photograph. This is coming up as negatives are being printed (or scanned) for the first time – do these new interpretations, devoid of influence from the photographer, count as their work? At what point does a frame or file...

Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

May 1, 2014

The Photographic Cliché

The morning just disappeared on me, sucked into a string of never-ending links and web searches about … photographic clichés. It started with good intentions then someone opened the darkroom door and ruined everything. That someone, of course, was me … Regardless, this is a roundabout way of getting to this 2011 post by Martin Parr about photographic clichés. Somewhere,...

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 30, 2014

Gear Time Again

As my kids here at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication start turning in their final portfolios and handing back all the gear we’ve loaned them, the tremors start … how am I supposed to live without a way to share my world? The fact that we supply every kid with everything they need is...

At Work/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

April 28, 2014

To Be a Pro, You Must Appear to Be a Pro

So much of this seems like common sense, but it’s not – so here’s a reminder that if you want to be taken seriously, you must be serious about every aspect of your business. We get this gift to be invited into people’s lives, their homes – the last thing we want to do is give them any reason to...

Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

April 25, 2014

The Growth Curve of a Young Photojournalist

Melissa Lyttle has put up a post on hitting the plateau as a photographer, something we all wrestle with.

Advice & Learning/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory