Resources for Photographers
National Press Photographers Association
Updates, scholarship information, photojournalism schools
Kodak eMagazine
This online magazine of photography provides tips of the month as well as guest
editorial and features.
Kodak's Guide to Better Pictures
An illustrated tutorial, includes tips on film speed, grain and sharpness; lighting
and flash; composition; and remedies for problem pictures. Even the glossary
of photographic terms is illustrated.
Digital Learning Center
Organized into five main books (How To, Technology, Courses, Reference and DLC
Plus). DLC Plus provides lessons for teachers to use.
Poynteronline
Poynteronline provides a variety online seminars and information sites pertaining to photojournalism, writing/editing, and tv/radio.
Indiana School of Journalism
Online ethics cases include nine that focus on photography. If you decide to
use "Bringing Death Close: Publishing photographs of human tragedy,"
you may wish to use a New York Times Learning Network online lesson with it.
See "The Impact of Violent Images."
The Impact of Violent Images: Assessing the Role of Photojournalism in Relaying
the News
Do highly graphic photographs help relate a news event involving death and destruction?
Every Picture Tells a Story: How News Photo Decisions Impact a News Story
This lesson plan on the New York Times Learning Network focuses on controversial
photographs of Elian González. Students must act as editors of the Times,
deciding on whether and how to use the photographs.
Photographic
Memories: Creating Stories from Photographs: A Photojournalism Exercise
In this lesson, students explore how photographs can be interpreted as conveying
rich stories to the beholder.
The Brownie Camera
Page
Created in 1900, the Brownie camera is celebrated on this site.
Newseum Photojournalist
of the Month
Begun in 2001 to introduce the public to the people behind the camera and students
to career in journalism possibility.
Capture the Moment: The
Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Part of the Newseum's CyberMuseum collection.
Includes some of the winning images and photographers' bio.
John
H. White: Portrait of Black Chicago
A project of The American Image, National Archives and Records Administration
presents this online portfolio of photographer John H. White. On assignment
for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project, White spent a
year with Chicago's African American community.
Cover Photography:
Journalism vs. Marketing
Where is the line between acceptable improvement and photo manipulation that
changes the truth? Are magazine covers different from news covers?
Photography
Archives of New York Times lessons on photography