Photojournalists Are Getting Artsier -- But Is That What Audiences Want? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dennis Dunleavy
Monday, 04 February 2008
ImageWalter Benjamin once suggested that there is no single, absolute, or correct interpretation of a picture, since every viewer brings something unique to the process. At the same time, photojournalistic conventions often constrain how a viewer responds emotionally and intellectually to pictures.