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(P/B) BENDING THE FRAME
The older paradigm for photojournalists was to simply record events, with the hope - and frequently the expectation - that people and their governments would be moved to respond to the injustices pictured, as witnessed by the impact of certain images during the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. Given evolving media and political climates, however, including the billions of images now available online from all kinds of sources, the purpose and effectiveness of media, in particular of visual journalism, has been called into question...
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(P/B) IN OUR OWN IMAGE
In Our Own Image by Fred Ritchin presciently outlined, twenty years ago, before the era of digital cameras, cell phones, Photoshop, and the World Wide Web, many of the ways in which the digital age would transform society. This groundbreaking book was the first to address "the coming revolution in photography" and ask pointed and sometimes chilling questions that are increasingly relevant today, including whether democracy can survive the erosion of media accelerated by facile use of digital means. By the time a second edition was publishe...
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(P/B) SEBASTIAO SALGADO
From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy sacks of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastiao Salgado explores the lives of the world's often-ignored people with a critical eye and a feeling heart. An internationally renowned exemplar of the venerated tradition of 'concerned photography', Sebastiao Salgado has been awarded virtually...
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