Press photography past and present | Art of photography | lecture

A well-made photograph can tell more than a million words. Often it is a single photograph depicting a particular moment in history that comes to mind when we recall from memory events that are important to us. How has press photography changed over the years? What caught the attention of press photographers in the past, and how does it look today?

For more than 150 years, history has been happening before our eyes. Even if we do not witness these events, we participate in them through press photography. Photos from the front, documents of social life, accounts of important events – the area of interest is wide. Press photography informs, but also shapes the image of reality, so it has also been used for propaganda purposes or to manipulate public opinion. Today’s global electronic media have almost completely displaced paper newspapers. This makes press photography change as well. Today, it is primarily photographs that operate with the universal language of image, appealing to emotions, shared on portals and social media, often getting another life in the form of memes or alterations.

On Wednesday, March 5 at 17:00 during the next meeting of the Art of Photography series, Stanislaw Jasinski will outline the history of press photography in the context of social, political and technological changes since the end of the 19th century. Among other things, you will hear about the most important figures of press photography and various currents of the genre. Admission is free!

Stanislaw Jasinski – photographer, member of ZPAF, researcher of the history of photography and collector of antique cameras and photographic equipment from various eras.