In these days, Informations are flooded through mass-media. But, readers are so busy to get all the information. Therefore readers seek to get the truth by looking a piece of photograph rather than reading a long article. So Photojournalism, stands fi...
In these days, Informations are flooded through mass-media. But, readers are so busy to get all the information. Therefore readers seek to get the truth by looking a piece of photograph rather than reading a long article. So Photojournalism, stands firmly in society. And we can't imagine newspapers and magizines without photographs and the squares of photograph are becoming larger from day to day. The newspaper photographs opened up it's own territory from "Reading news" to "Watching news" - that conveys and shows exact appearences and backgrounds of the things or occurences that are difficult to be explained only by articles. Therefore, it could be, changed from "reading newspaper" to "watching newspaper" as a necessary change of today's newpaper. Newspapers is more improtant than any other days for the development of the local community after the implementation of antonmic system. Then the role of local newspapers news photo is also growing larger. The scope of this study is limited from the first page's photo that can be a face of newspaper And this study examine what is the role and function of news photo, and which changes have happened on it. The first page is called "the face of newspaper" and has the most important article and photo of the day's news. Also it is called "the general face" which is inclined to politic articles and photos. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to look into the process of the transition from "reading newpaper" to "watching newspaper" and to explore ways the future newspaper photographs to be fllowed, Among 42 local newspapers, I choose the first pages of Kyung-Nam Newspaper, where I am working for, as my studying on photograph.