摘要：Perhaps no technology has done more to alter the visual landscape of modernity than the appearance of photographs within the mass press. This visual landscape has also come to stand at the center of the formation of what we consider ‘global consciousness.’ As historian of photography Gisèle Freund remarked in 1936, ‘Photography opened a window, as it were. The faces of public personalities became familiar and things that happened all over the world were his to share. As the reader’s outlook expanded, the world began to shrink.’ 1 It is the alchemy of the photographic image combined with the public vision and distribution goals of the press that work to create a global vision. This role has made photojournalism one of the most influential of photo graphic discourses.
