Skip to Main Content

Hours & Login Menu

  • Hours
  • Login
    • Library Search Login
    • Interlibrary Loan
Dartmouth Libraries Dartmouth Libraries

Global dropdown menu

    • Borrow and Request
      • Who Can Borrow
      • What Can You Borrow
      • Loan Periods and Renewals
      • Borrow from Other Libraries
      • Request Materials
      • All Borrow and Request
    • Collections
      • Digital Collections
      • Media Collections
      • Oral Histories
      • Collections Care
      • All Collections
    • Course Reserves
      • Find Course Reserves
      • Create or Add Course Reserves
      • All Course Reserves
    • Off-Campus Access
    • Records Management
      • Retention and Disposition
      • Confidential Monthly Destruction
      • Electronic Records
      • Physical Records
      • Retention Schedules
      • All Records Management
    • Search and Browse
      • Library Search
      • Databases
      • Journals
      • Research Guides
      • Maps and Atlases
      • Newspapers
      • Dartmouth Digital Commons
      • Music Scores
      • BorrowDirect
      • Archives and Manuscripts
      • All Search and Browse
    • Design and Produce
      • Audio and Video
      • Book Arts
      • Design and Digital Art
      • Equipment and Hardware
      • Software
      • All Design and Produce
    • Data Services
      • Research Data Management
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Data Repositories
      • Data Workshops
      • Datasets at Dartmouth
      • All Data Services
    • Digital Scholarship
    • Publishing and Copyright
      • Copyright
      • Open Access
      • Publisher Agreements
      • Publishing for Faculty
      • Publishing for Students
      • All Publishing and Copyright
    • Research Help
    • Teaching and Workshops
    • Print, Copy, Scan
    • Locations
      • Baker-Berry Library
      • Book Arts Workshop
      • Evans Map Room
      • Feldberg Business and Engineering Library
      • Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries
      • Jones Media Center
      • Library Collections and Services Facility
      • Rauner Special Collections Library
      • Sherman Art Library
      • All Locations
    • Accessibility
    • Events
    • Exhibits
    • Hours
    • Study Spaces
    • About Dartmouth Libraries
      • Council on the Libraries
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Friends of the Libraries
      • Library Departments
      • Strategic Framework
      • Staff Directory
      • All About Dartmouth Libraries
    • Employment
      • Staff and Professional Positions
      • Student Positions
      • Fellowships
      • All Employment
    • News and Highlights
    • Policies
    • Programs and Awards
      • Alumni Memorial Book Fund Program
      • MAD Research Video Contest
      • Staff Awards
      • All Programs and Awards
    • Contact Us
    • We're Here to Help
      • Students
      • Faculty
      • Alums
      • Staff
      • Visiting Researchers and Community
      • All We're Here to Help
    • Find a Specialist
      • Subject Librarians
      • Audio and Video Production
      • Preservation and Emergency Preparedness
      • Publishing and Copyright
      • Records Management
      • Research Data Services
      • Systematic Review
      • All Find a Specialist
    • Ask Us
  • Hours
    • Library Search Login
    • Interlibrary Loan

Global dropdown menu

    • Borrow and Request
      • Who Can Borrow
      • What Can You Borrow
      • Loan Periods and Renewals
      • Borrow from Other Libraries
      • Request Materials
    • Collections
      • Digital Collections
      • Media Collections
      • Oral Histories
      • Collections Care
    • Course Reserves
      • Find Course Reserves
      • Create or Add Course Reserves
    • Off-Campus Access
    • Records Management
      • Retention and Disposition
      • Confidential Monthly Destruction
      • Electronic Records
      • Physical Records
      • Retention Schedules
    • Search and Browse
      • Library Search
      • Databases
      • Journals
      • Research Guides
      • Maps and Atlases
      • Newspapers
      • Dartmouth Digital Commons
      • Music Scores
      • BorrowDirect
      • Archives and Manuscripts
    • Design and Produce
      • Audio and Video
      • Book Arts
      • Design and Digital Art
      • Equipment and Hardware
      • Software
    • Data Services
      • Research Data Management
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Data Repositories
      • Data Workshops
      • Datasets at Dartmouth
    • Digital Scholarship
    • Publishing and Copyright
      • Copyright
      • Open Access
      • Publisher Agreements
      • Publishing for Faculty
      • Publishing for Students
    • Research Help
    • Teaching and Workshops
    • Print, Copy, Scan
    • Locations
      • Baker-Berry Library
      • Book Arts Workshop
      • Evans Map Room
      • Feldberg Business and Engineering Library
      • Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries
      • Jones Media Center
      • Library Collections and Services Facility
      • Rauner Special Collections Library
      • Sherman Art Library
    • Accessibility
    • Events
    • Exhibits
    • Hours
    • Study Spaces
    • About Dartmouth Libraries
      • Council on the Libraries
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Friends of the Libraries
      • Library Departments
      • Strategic Framework
      • Staff Directory
    • Employment
      • Staff and Professional Positions
      • Student Positions
      • Fellowships
    • News and Highlights
    • Policies
    • Programs and Awards
      • Alumni Memorial Book Fund Program
      • MAD Research Video Contest
      • Staff Awards
    • Contact Us
    • We're Here to Help
      • Students
      • Faculty
      • Alums
      • Staff
      • Visiting Researchers and Community
    • Find a Specialist
      • Subject Librarians
      • Audio and Video Production
      • Preservation and Emergency Preparedness
      • Publishing and Copyright
      • Records Management
      • Research Data Services
      • Systematic Review
    • Ask Us
  • Hours
    • Library Search Login
    • Interlibrary Loan
  1. Dartmouth Libraries
  2. Research Guides
  3. Dartmouth Libraries Guides
  4. Journalism
  5. Photojournalism

Journalism

This is a research guide for Journalism, Television News, Women in Journalism, War Journalism, Fake news and Alternative Media.
  • Introduction
  • Books
  • Finding articles & journal titles
  • Fake news
    • Media literacy
  • Types of journalism
    • Investigative journalism
    • Photojournalism
    • Sports journalism
    • Warfare and journalism
  • Newsreels
  • How mass media sees Journalists/Journalism
  • Television news
  • Censorship
  • Ethnicity and journalism
  • Women and journalism
  • Alternative media
  • Future of Media
  • Internet resources
  • Managing citations
  • Scholarly communication This link opens in a new window

Internet resource(s)

  • The History of Photojournalism. How Photography Changed the Way We Receive News.
    • Link
    A story on photojournalism from the Modern Museum of Art.
  • Photojournalism 101
    • Link
    Described in simple terms, photojournalism is a branch of photography that uses photos or images to tell a story. ...
  • Photojournalism from the Tate Museum
    • Link
    This page defines the term "photojournalis," gives some examples of that type of work and showcases some photojournalists.
  • Atlantic logo
    Photojournalism in the Age of New Media
    • Link
    Social media have given photojournalists a million extra eyes in conflict zones. But if a picture can say a thousand words, the trick is finding the right one. ... (J. Keller, 4/4/2011)
  • What is Photojournalism and How to Become a Photojournalist?
    • Link
    A photojournalist is similar to a reporter, but uses a camera rather than the written word to tell news stories. He or she will often travel to places of particular note, or may live in a certain area in order to catch events as they unfold. ...
    more...less...
    10 Things to Know Before Getting Into Photojournalism ...

Keeping up with Communications journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for all facets of Communication? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's, you can download and read the articles you want from the journals for which we have subscriptions.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's also available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

An introduction and short definition

A photographic genre characterized by the intention to communicate information about a topical event and by the immediacy of its images. It has generated many ‘iconic’ photographs. See also decisive moment.

Chandler, D., & Munday, R. (2020). Photojournalism. In A Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 Oct. 2020

In the library's collections

  • photojournalism
  • video journalism
  • journalism, pictorial

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover ArtAmerican photojournalism comes of age by Michael L. Carlebach
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library TR 820 .C356 1997
    ISBN: 9781560987864
    In American Photojournalism Comes of Age, Michael L. Carlebach discusses the ways in which photojournalists redefined the boundaries of publicity and privacy, fact and fabrication during the formative decades of the profession. He explains how photographers and editors took advantage not only of more streamlined technologies but also of the public's faith in the camera's occuracy to revolutionize and dramatically increase the presentation of visual news. ...
  • Cover artJournalism workbook: a manual of tasks, projects and resources by Brendan Hennessy; F. W. Hodgson
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781136024573
    Using practical assignments, the authors take each area of journalism, and demonstrate the world which awaits journalists in the early years of their careers. Each of the assignments spins off a number of tasks which are presented to the reader in the form of briefings, and can be used as a basis for further study. ...
  • Cover ArtThe making of visual news: a history of photography in the press by Thierry Gervais; Gaëlle Morel
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4834 .G4713 2017
    ISBN: 9781474295192
    The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use ever since. ...
  • Cover ArtPhotojournalism,1855 to the present: editor's choice by Reuel Golden, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library TR 820 .P54435 2006
    ISBN: 9780789208958
    Ever since Roger Fenton inaugurated the genre by photographing the Crimean War in 1855, the world's great photojournalists have used a variety of approaches to bear witness to their times. At one end of the photojournalistic spectrum are war photographers like Robert Capa and Larry Burrows, who capture the most extreme events of human existence as they happen; at the other are social documentarians like Lewis Hine and Sebastião Salgado, who step back from the single dramatic incident to cover in depth such economic and cultural issues as labor and migration. ...
  • Cover ArtStorytelling for photojournalists: reportage and documentary photography techniques by Enzo dal Verme
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry TR 820 .V48 2016
    ISBN: 9781682030004
    Learn what it takes to shoot reportage--photojournalistic images--from developing an idea, to making travel plans, to gathering the requisite information about the subject/scene and locale, to packing the appropriate gear and nailing the technical aspects of the shoot. Success in photojournalism is predicated on having a firm understanding of the business. ...
  • Cover ArtVisual journalism by David Machin; Lydia Polzer
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry TR 820 .M225 2015
    ISBN: 9780230360211
    The digital age has revolutionised the look of journalism, be it online or in print. The subsequent shift to multi-media and multi-platform publishing arguably makes visual appearance and branding more important than ever. Yet visual journalism remains a relatively under-theorised and under-researched field. Visual Journalism presents a unique, critical investigation into this area. Combining theory and practice, the chapters integrate the experiences of practitioners working in photography, visual design and set design, including insights into how they work and the changing environments they find themselves in, with an innovative theory of visual communication - multimodality - that enables the text to break down and analyse the key elements and patterns of visual design. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover ArtBending the frame: photojournalism, documentary, and the citizen by Fred Ritchin
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library TR 820 .R558 2013
    ISBN: 9781597111201
    In Bending the Frame, Fred Ritchin examines the complex relations between social justice and photojournalism in today's over-saturated political and media climates. Is visual journalism even effective at all, given the ease with which so many of us can simply record events? ...
  • Cover ArtEuropean illustrated press and the emergence of a transnational visual culture of the news, 1842-1870 by Thomas Smits
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4784 .P5 S65 2020
    ISBN: 9780367247867
    This book looks at the roots of a global visual news culture: the trade in illustrations of the news between European illustrated newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century. In the age of nationalism, we might suspect these publications to be filled with nationally produced content, supporting a national imagined community. However, the large-scale transnational trade in illustrations, which this book uncovers, points out that nineteenth-century news consumers already looked at the same world. By exchanging images, European illustrated newspapers provided them with a shared, transnational, experience.
  • Cover artGraphic news: how sensational images transformed nineteenth-century journalism by Amanda Frisken
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780252042980
    "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups. Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events--obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence--changed the public's consumption of the news. ...
  • Cover artPublic images: celebrity, photojournalism and the making of the tabloid press by Ryan Linkof
    • Book
    Call Number: Sherman Art Library TR 820 .L5435 2018
    ISBN: 9781474243964
    The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photojournalism, this book explores the origin of the unauthorised celebrity photograph in the early 20th century, tracing its rise in the 1900s through to the first legal trial concerning the right to privacy from photographers shortly after the Second World War. ...

Other library resource(s)

  • AP images
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Features state, regional and national photos from North America, as well as the best of the international photo report. A second database features the regional European and Asian daily picture reports, along with a selection of their historical photos.
  • Resource logoPhotojournalism from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Communication by David Staton, Julianne H. Newton
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199756841
    The story of photojournalism is inextricably linked with humankind’s desire to understand the meaning of life itself. Photojournalism means visual reporting. At first read, that definition seems clear. When coined in the mid-20th century, photojournalism referred primarily to news photography: still photographs of significant or interesting events and people published in newspapers and magazines along with verbal reports or brief explanatory captions. As journalistic media expanded to include video and audio, first in analog form and then in digital form, such word combinations as visual journalism, visual reportage, and multimedia journalism gained popularity as inclusive concepts to describe the different forms visual reporting might take. ...

Finding scholarly articles and journal title(s)

  • Resource logoArt full text by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Offers full text plus abstracts of articles published from 1984-present. Coverage includes all aspects of the Visual Arts & Art History. Indexing includes images and advertisments.
  • Resource logoCommunication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Ebsco
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
  • << Previous: Investigative journalism
  • Next: Sports journalism >>
  • Last Updated: May 7, 2025 4:54 PM
  • URL: https://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/journalism
  • Print Page
Login to LibApps
Report a problem
Tags: fake news, film.046, humanities, journalism, media literacy, newsreels, photojournalism, sports journalism, television news, tv news, women in journalism

Dartmouth Libraries

  • Baker-Berry Library
    • Book Arts Workshop
    • Evans Map Room
    • Jones Media Center
  • Health Sciences and Biomedical Libraries
  • Feldberg Business & Engineering Library
  • Rauner Special Collections Library
  • Records Management
  • Sherman Art Library

About Us

  • Staff Directory
  • Subject Librarians
  • Library Departments
  • Policies
  • Employment
  • Accessibility
  • Federal Depository Library

Contact Us

  • 25 North Main Street
    Hanover, NH, USA 03755
  • Phone: 603-646-2567
  • Contact Us

Give Us Feedback

Dartmouth Libraries

Footer copyright

  • Dartmouth College
  • Copyright © 2025 Trustees of Dartmouth College
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Privacy Policy