Photojournalism

Photos are an extremely important part of the media today, and has been important for a very long time. Not only can you take pictures to keep track of your family and friends, one main use of photos is the use of photos to show news in something called photojournalism. It started as soon as the printing press was invented, however printing presses could only publish from engravings till about 1880. The first photojournalist was Carol Szathmari who had photos engraved and published during and about the Crimean War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the time of the 1850's. In today's culture photos can turn a common news story into a bone chilling message. Some of these photos are examples of that.