Reporters hate photographers. Reporters painstakingly gather the facts, write gripping articles and bold headlines. They bring people the news. They should be the stars of a newspaper. But then someone with a camera takes a picture - suddenly nobody is interested in reading anymore.
"A picture tells a thousand words." Rarely has a saying been more accurate or more used.
Witness the photo here: 'Migrant Mother' taken in America during the 1930s depression.
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) sent out a team of photographers to document rural poverty and the attempts to solve it.
"A picture tells a thousand words." Rarely has a saying been more accurate or more used.
Witness the photo here: 'Migrant Mother' taken in America during the 1930s depression.
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) sent out a team of photographers to document rural poverty and the attempts to solve it.
Documentary photography was never the same again. Dorothea Lange's photo, here, was the beginning of a more compassionate style. One which took a humanitarian view and attempted to influence world opinion.
Some argue that photographers of this style are too biased, forcing their own beliefs onto the situation. But isn't a photo always subjective to some extent? Covering human stories needs a degree of human feeling.
Perhaps this is what infuriates reporters. How can their words ever capture the raw emotion expressed in a brilliant snapshot?
Sources:
Excellent blog post by BBC photo editor Phil Coomes
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