Examples of Photography Manipulation--how can those influence audiences?

Editing in Photojournalism

            In Kenneth Kobré’s, Photo Journalism: The Professionals’ Approach, there is an enormous amount of focus on the different types of photographs and how those individual photographs may affect audiences. While Kobré’s book is not focused on the idea of picture editing, there is still a great amount of insight in natural pictures and focus on how that naturalness can still be very appealing to an audience’s pathos. Kobré uses picture examples from simple portraits to devastating news pieces that expose raw human emotion. Kobré’s examples cover quite a wide range and have quite a lot to do with the history of photography and the future that may be to come. By covering this range of photos, Kobré spreads the focus from just controversial photos to everyday portraits or candid shots. While the focus is not on editing, there is still an entire section in the back of the book on the ethics of photojournalism and the guidelines that ought to be followed when thinking of publishing certain photographs while posing questions about how much picture editing should be allowed with photographic examples of edited pictures.

Works Cited

Kobré, Kenneth. Photo Journalism: A Professionals’ Approach. Boston: Focal Press,         2000. Print.