The Influence Of Photojournalism

Photojournalism, known as the practice of capturing moments or events to narrate a story. Sometimes it’s a story within a story. It is variously defined as visual telling through pictorial representation. “Photojournalism has as its underpinning a desire to portray accurately a visual scene which people around the world can relate to, respond to, and believe. Believability is the backbone of news imagery” (Harris, 2001). Walter Lippman mentioned in his renowned work, Public Opinion that the things about which people get to know, most of them are not derived from personal experience or direct interaction but through second hand sources most prominently, photojournalism.
In the context of the book, Media Framing of the Muslim World: Conflicts, Crises and Contexts, it has been questioned that why western media associates Muslims as violent oppressors? Through their media and visual framing they emphasized the notion that there are certainly Muslims who commits various human rights violations. This book is illustration of media framing that how media covers and represent the images and how people will perceive it in different parts of the world. As media is considered one of the most powerful tool. In the

She describes the terror of war “blood stained into foreign dust” and “all flesh is grass”. In a detached tone, she relates each developing photographs of disastrous incident as a tale of agony and pain in which the half developed picture of victim is described as “half formed ghost”. It clears the notion that the image is vague and faint. Duffy’s “War photographer” shows both agonies of war terror as well as the apathy of mankind towards it. The poem ends up with a satire upon photojournalism that shows the materialistic attitude towards