Photojournalism
Subtitle: a social semiotic approach
By: Helen Caple, University of New South Wales, Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780230301009
Subjects: Photojournalism; Photography; Social aspects; Semiotics and the arts; Journalism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Description: "Photojournalism provides an analysis of press photography from a social semiotic perspective. It explores the role of photography in the news and how meanings are made in news photographs. It also investigates the meanings that are made at the intersection of words and images in the news story context. This is becoming increasingly important for multimodal news reporting in the twenty-first century.The book brings together the author's experiences as a professional photographer, lecturer and researcher to provide readers with a comprehensive tool kit for analyzing images and text-image relations. It explores a wide range of case studies and will appeal to scholars in Social Semiotics, Linguistics, Communications Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis and Media/Journalism Studies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introducing the Multisemiotic News Story; title: 2. News Values and the Multisemiotic News Story; title: 3. The Multiple Functionality of News Images; title: 4. Composition and Aesthetic Value in Press Photography; title: 5. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 1: Image as Nucleus; title: 6. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 2: Image as Satellite; title: 7. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 3: Sequences of Images; title: 8. Evolving Practices.