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photojournalism
Photojournalism uses photography
to to to record significant human and global events What journalists journalists do do with with words photojournalists do do with with images The last couple of years have witnessed a a a a a a renais- sance of photojournalism
What was once the exclusive turf of of professional news photographers has broadened as as regu- lar reporters have begun to use their personal cameras with the the the same intensity with which they have always used their notebooks The Web sites of major newspapers around the country now report using multimedia tools that have been shot edited and made into slide shows by a a a new breed of visual journalists street
Street photography
photography
is a a a a a genre of photography
photography
that fuses a a a a a fine-arts aesthetic with the the observation of daily life Incongruity is is a a a hallmark of street
shooting Although it it is is almost impossible to observe your own neighborhood in the same way a a a a a foreigner would the outsider attitude is what makes street
photography
so special To take street
shots you need a a a a quick eye and the ability to to make fast use of the camera You must be able to to stand back from your subject (no matter how familiar it is) and observe life from a a distance Today’s digital cameras are extremely small and por- table Mobile phones have snapped images that made the front pages of our newspapers You’ve got to be able to move fast Amayzun Carolina Correa
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The best street
photography
brings us moments that are otherwise unseen Yet at its best this genre con- tains formal qualities of composition lighting contrast and other design intangibles Vaibhav K Bundhoo Peter Hastings