Need an argumentative essay on Picture Stories, Documentary Essays, Non-Mainstream Media Stories Photographers/Photography. Needs to be 6 pages. Please no plagiarism.Download file to see previous page

Need an argumentative essay on Picture Stories, Documentary Essays, Non-Mainstream Media Stories Photographers/Photography. Needs to be 6 pages. Please no plagiarism.

It highlights how picture stories began and gives examples of picture essays and their effect in raising societal awareness on issues afflicting them. It also gives examples of two photographers and their styles to evaluate picture composition and its effects. It further gives an appreciation for this topic showing its relevance to the modern society in resolving disputes and championing universal freedom and protection of human rights. Thesis statement Picture stories, picture essays and photojournalism have led to and still contributing to societal change due to the emotional responses they evoke among the audience. In analysing this thesis statement, we take a look at great photographers whose work has contributed to a global awakening because of how they capture the audience. From the medieval times, the world has been faced with many challenges including wars, hunger and social unrests. Religious and ethnic segregation is still being practised in some nations that have not entrenched freedom for every citizen in their constitutions. Photojournalist like Bruce Davidson has used pictures to highlight the evolvement of Brooklyn gangs and civil rights movements in America. Picture stories Use of picture stories began in early 20th century with increasing global wars and related catastrophes going on at the time. A photographer could make an arrangement of pictures in a continuous and logical order that can easily be followed by the audience. this is to make them interpret the message being passed. During this period, there were also family issues cropping up due to factors such as increasing drug abuse and alcohol uptake during the ‘rock and roll’ age. This led to domestic violence and related consequences that destroyed family units and social fabric. There were freelance photographers who documented these times driven by the need to influence citizens’ and decision makers’ emotions for the society to be restored to its former peaceful self. This was coupled with improvements in the field of photography which led to development of smaller cameras with good picture quality in terms of texture and other picture elements. The need for in-depth observation of particular topics was as a result of the frequencies with which these societal issues came up. It is only through agenda setting, by any form of media, that awareness is created which eventually results to enactment of legislations to protect other potential victims. The most compelling photo essay of this century is the Japanese Tsunami shots taken by The Getty Images photographer, Yomiuri Shimbun and others. These were photos showing the destruction and power on the catastrophe. One picture has a boat on the roof of a storey building. this depicts the magnitude of the tsunami (Shimbun, p. 41). These pictures caused emotional responses among the global community with many countries contributing towards rebuilding Japan to restore its affected citizens to normalcy. I was also moved by these pictures as I saw a number of cities drowned within the Japanese Eastern coastline. Picture essays As earlier established, picture essays are centred on a single theme that the photojournalist wants to pass across. These pictures by Todd Drake depict Muslims as people who want to live with other faiths in harmony and every member of the community, including women, contribute to overall development.