Nieman Reports
Summer 1998
Photojournalism Dead? It's Just Changing With the Times

In the next 50 pages Nieman Reports take stock of photojournalism today. While problems are noted, the report is positive. The articles and the photo essays by 10 Nieman Fellows demonstrate the special value of pictures to news. As noted photographer Edward Steichen summed it up at the dinner celebrating his 90th birthday in 1969: “The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. And that is no mean function.”
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- Bill Kovach
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- Robert H. Phelps
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- Lois Fiore
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- Molly Marsh
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- Lewis Clapp
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- Deborah Smiley
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- Susan Goldstein
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- A photographers’ poker game, circa 1950. Clockwise from left: Gjon Mili, Dmitri Kessel, Robert Capa, Pepi Martis, Philippe Halsman and Cornell Capa. © Yvonne Halsman