Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, Fourth Edition

Photojournalism blends insightful interviews with professionals, sharp practical experience, and high-impact photographs to create the definitive text on photojournalism. Individual case studies draw upon the experience of leading photojournalists and delve into their reasons for making the decisions they did, showing readers how working professionals handle on-the-job challenges.

This revised and reorganized edition features an updated imaging chapter and new material on finding feature pictures, picture editing, ethics, law and wartime censorship, more interviews with professional and a new design to help recreate the impact the photos had in their original context. The result is a stunning and dramatic showcase to the best of photojournalism.

Photojournalism includes new interviews with well known photojournalists, such as, Anne Wells story of a Pulitzer Prize Photo, John Gaps III of the Associated Press, David Kennerly of Newsweek, Diana Walker and PF Bently of Time.

Professor Ken Kobré directs the photojournalism sequence at San Francisco State University, California. His photographs have appeared in Newsweek, Time, Business Week, San Francisco Examiner, and numerous other publications. Kobre also is the producer of the hour-long documentary "Deadline Every Second: On Assignment with 12 Associated Press Photojournalists.” Please "friend” Ken on Facebook, www.facebook.com/kenkobre, and then "like” the page for "Deadline Every Second,” where you can view the trailer.