News Photography Tutorial (Second Edition) (21st Century Journalism and Communication Series Textbooks)

Author: Sheng Xigui
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: In the 21st century, China's news communication industry and journalism education will experience significant development. The publication of this series of textbooks will contribute to the growth and prosperity of the news communication industry and journalism education, as well as the cultivation of news communication talents in the new century. This is a shared hope of both the publishers and all the authors.
This textbook covers two disciplines—journalism and communication—as well as three majors—journalism, broadcasting and television, and advertising. It reviews the history of news photography from the perspective of the development of human visual communication, along with the major factors that have influenced its evolution. The key points include: the achievements of theoretical research on news photography in China during the 1920s and 1930s; the development of news photography both domestically and internationally; significant events that occurred during the flourishing period of world news photography from the 1930s to the 1960s; the current state of news photography in China; and the accomplishments achieved through the reform of news photography since the mid-1980s.