Episode notes
Photography as a media invention emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century, over sixty years before that cluster of other communications technologies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, including cinema, audio recording and replay, television and radio. We still have the first photographic images as we still have the first cinematic sequences.War played a key role in boosting the evolution of photojournalism & documentary photography, as it did later with the strengthening of aviation during the first world war.
The American civil war and the Crimean war were clear examples of that.
Newspapers themselves gradually drew upon photography more and more as a visual staple. Wire photos and later colour printing on newsprint amplified its potency in news and journalism.
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