On Jan 29, 2011, at 12:07 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Photojournalists are not less relevant; in fact, I think they are needed more > than ever these days.
Agreed. > I think digital photography helps keep photojournalism alive--no film > processing and quality of cameras has greatly improved. Today, we have some > amazing news images on the net and in the newspapers. True, but it's also one of the reasons serious photojournalism is in jeopardy: Everybody has a camera, at least a phone camera. Images direct from the scene of events abound. And they're free. > It's unfortunate that younger generations didn't have the opportunity to grow > up with magazines like Life et al. The library at school has the complete > set of Life magazine, and I've been recently sneaking in time to go through > all the issues. The 1st issue was 11/23/1936. I've gotten as far as the > 12/14/1936 issue. Fascinating. I hope to write some short reflections of my > experience on my blog. That would be cool. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
