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Newspapers, Magazines, Annuals
- News photographer (National Press Photographers Association (U.S.))
(Current issue)
This monthly periodical is an excellent source for news photographs and "NewsViews", "Pictures of the Month", "Common Cents", and "Ethnics Matters" features. - The Best of Photojournalism National Press Photographers Association (U.S.)
Online annual contest winners and entries
The Best of Photojournalism 2008/2007/2006/2005/ 2004/ 2003
Best of Photojournalism : Still Photography
2006 / 2005 / 2004 / Archives: all categories: 2002-2004
Best of Television Photojournalism
2004
- The Digital Journalist
A monthly Web magazine
- Pulitzer Prize Photographs - to find photos click on the appropriate year
- Capture the Moment- Exhibit of 130 Pulitzer Prize Photographs
- We also have three books in our collection: Moments: the Pulitzer Prize photographs, Moments: Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs: a visual chronicle and Capture the moment: the Pulitzer Prize photographs
- World press photo Haagse Gemeentemuseum (Annual volume)
Photographs Published in Newspapers
The following sources are available on the Libraries' list of News Databases
- Daily Collegian (1887-1987) [Digital Archive]
Digitized page images of the Pennsylvania State University's campus newspaper, The Daily Collegian. Every issue in this database can be browsed page by page, online. Photo captions can be searched by keyword. - New York Times Historical (available from 1851) [Digital Archive]
Digitized page image of every backfile issue of The New York Times from 1851 (most recent three years not available.)
Hint: using the Advanced Search option, change the "Citation and document text" field to "Document type", then browse to "Photo Standalone"
- NewsBank (NewsStand) E-Edition Library
includes:
Al Hayat (2004-present)
Die Welt (2004-2006)
El Pais (2004-present)
stern (2004-present)
- Newspaper Collection in the News and Microforms Library to locate recently published photos, browse issues in nearly 40 newspapers.
- PressDisplay (Newspaper PressDisplay Electronic Image Newspapers) (latest 6 weeks only)
Includes more than 500 newspapers from 70 countries in 37 languages. Includes feature "The World in Pictures"
- The Times of London (1785-1985) [Digital Archive]
Digitized page images of every issue of The Times of London from 1790-1985
Hint: using the Advanced Search option, change the "KeyWord (ke) " field to "Illustration (il) "
Use NewsCAT to identify which newspapers we also own on microfilm in the University Libraries.
The following are Internet sources:
- Page One Today
Each weekday the "front page of a newspaper somewhere in the world" is highlighted by David Shedden, Library Director of the Poynter Institute, "a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists". - Today's Front Pages
More than 540 front pages from 47 countries in digital format, updated daily. Also provides links to each newspaper's website. In the archives, view front page coverage of major recent world events (the 2004 tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and more).
Photo Archives and Collection
- AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
available via the Libraries' News Databases list. - Pictoral Journalism (Library of Congress)
- "The Library preserves several premiere archives of pictorial journalism, including several thousand drawings by Civil War artist-correspondents, the studio archives of several early news photographic agencies such as the Bain News Service and the National Photo Company, and the morgues of such publications as Look magazine, the New York World Telegram and Sun, and U.S.News and World Report."
- New York World Telegram and Sun (1890s-1967)
"The Associated Press has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other new agency and is the most credible source for non-biased reporting." "From simple keyword searching to more complex searches such as concept, color, and category, students will enhance research projects with over one million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago."
BBC News : In Pictures
Provides
the 'Day In Pictures' while "giving prominence to world news, sport and weather along with the BBC's international radio and TV services."
- Reuters Pictures
"Reuters is a global information company providing information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets including up-to-the-minute news photographs."
- 10 x 10
for the "Top 100" news photos for a given time period (starting with 2004)
Stories About News Photographs
If you are looking for articles (in newspapers or magazines) about controversial news photos, use any of these databases to locate these articles:
- Proquest National Newspapers
- Proquest Research Library
- Communication and Mass Media Index
- Communication Abstract
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Search hint: Proquest National Newspapers allows you to find commentaries or editorials about controversial photographs by changing the "Citation and abstract" to "Document type" and browsing editorial or commentary.
Examples of such articles from Proquest include:
- Headlines, Photos, and Grief (Boston Globe) (2004)
- Outrage about the Fallujah photograph (Chicago Tribune) (2004)
- Images from hell/Photographs from war bring home violence and killing (San Francisco Chronicle) (2003)
- Pictures, Labels, Perception and Reality (New York Times) (2005)
- Good as a Gun: When Cameras Define a War (New York Times) (2003)
Check the CAT for books such as these:
- Body horror: photojournalism, catastrophe, and war
- Landscapes of the Civil War: newly discovered photographs from the Medford Historical Society
- Shooting under fire: the world of the war photographer
- War photographer [videorecording]
- All the mighty world: the photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860
- Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s: [exhibition] Hayward Gallery, London, 4 February to 17 April 1988
- Shoot First and ask questions later: media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War
NPR.org also has an article about news photography entitled, An Indelible Image of War, 40 Years Later.
e-reference page.