The function of press photography – an analysis on the example of the title page of “Gazeta Wyborcza”
Joanna Szylko-Kwas
Pełny tekst artykułuPress photography is a journalistic genre that should have features of information and opinion journalism messages. Similarly to other genres, also photography evolves according to current media changes and user needs. The article is an attempt at answering the question if press photography has not lost its basic information function during the ongoing media transformation. The answer is based on the observation of one hundred editions of the daily “Gazeta Wyborcza” from the twenty-five years of its existence. Only the title page and the photograph published there were analyzed.
KEYWORDS
press photography, journalistic photography, “Gazeta Wyborcza”, function of press photography, photojournalist