A brief history of the development of news photography

1842 from may 5 to 8, a fire broke out in Hamburg, Germany. Biou and Stelzner, two Germans, photographed the fire ruins by silver plate photography, which is called the beginning of news photography. Early news photography, with heavy equipment and complicated technical operation, can only record static portraits and scenes. In order to be published in newspapers and periodicals, it must be changed from line drawing by painters to woodcut. Engaged in photography, is a photographer in the studio.

1On March 4th, 880, new york Daily Pictorial published the photo "Scenery of Shanty Towns" with the technique of S.H. Hogan's photographic copperplate. 1904 65438+1October 7, the British Daily Mirror was published, all with photo illustrations, and published photos of murder, crime and juggling.

In the 1920s, due to the improvement of fax machine, photographic plate-making and paper, especially the appearance of small cameras, news photography had the material and technical conditions for development.

During the period of 1928, German E. salomon used small cameras, indoor light and non-interference methods to capture news shots, which laid the aesthetic and technical foundation of news photography in the modern sense. Known as "the father of news photography".

1935 ~ 1955 is the "golden age of pictorial", and news photography provides a large number of photos for pictorial and pictorial.

In 1950s, after the popularization of television, the role and position of news photography in newspaper layout were paid attention to, and the research on news photography began. News photography has become an important news genre and an organic part of newspaper layout.