Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re cropping dilema
From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:06:40 -0600

> Hi BD,
>
>        When HCB started photographing with the early Leica, the
> word 'photojournalist' was unknown.  I think the term was first
> used in the '50s.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rich Lahrson

I don't have my OED here, but Webster's first included the term
"photojournalism" in 1938 - which means it would have been in common use
some time before that. I've also recently read some early writings by Walker
Evan's from the 1930's which, as I recall, referred to photojournalism.

tim

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