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Towlen, R. Jason – Communication: Journalism Education Today, 1996
Discusses innovation in photojournalism, i.e., transition to electronic photography, wherein darkrooms have been replaced by computer terminals and digital cameras are the norm. Places a digital camera's cost at $15,000, not including an $8000 laptop Macintosh (and software) needed to complete it. Notes that this technology allows the…
Descriptors: Photographs, Photography, Photojournalism, Technological Advancement

Magilvy, Joan K.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1992
Describes use of photography as method embedded within ethnographic investigation of rural home care for older adults. Illustrates how photography fostered data generation, elicited participants' stories, and showed patterns of rural aging. Notes that analysis of photographic data pooled with interview and observational data facilitated in-depth…
Descriptors: Home Programs, Nursing, Older Adults, Photography
Reaves, Shiela – 1989
The computer age is redefining photography, and yet notions of photography can still be colored by the 19th-century view that photography is a slice of time and hence, of reality. One inventor of photography called it "nature's pencil," and courts have seemed to agree by traditionally allowing photography as evidence in trials. The core…
Descriptors: Computers, Ethics, Mass Media Effects, Photography
Bethune, Beverly M. – 1981
The preliminary development of social documentary photography can be traced in the early issues of "Charities," a journal established in 1897 by the New York Charity Organization Society. During the journal's earliest years, 1897 to 1902, photography was already associated with social work in the minds of the public; but…
Descriptors: History, Media Research, News Reporting, Periodicals
Howell, Les – Communication: Journalism Education Today, 1996
Defines a digital photograph as a numerical record of light electronically measured and recorded by a computer's scanner. States that most personal computers cannot do digital photography successfully and that digital pictures can be hard to manage and present a storage problem. Finds that, once the school has the hardware/software, picture…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Photographs, Photography, Photojournalism
Wilson, Bradley – Communication: Journalism Education Today, 1996
Finds that the recent National Press Photographers Association code of ethics can serve as a model for any photography staff. Discusses how digital imaging is becoming commonplace in classrooms, due to decreasing costs and easier software. Explains digital terminology. Concludes that time saved in the darkroom and at the printer is now spent on…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Higher Education, Journalism Education, Photographs
Bossen, Howard – 1981
The photographs of William Henry Jackson taken during the 1871 survey of the Yellowstone region of Wyoming and Montana have often been cited as the first specific group of photographs used for successful persuasion. Many historians credit Jackson's photographs as being the most influential factor in persuading Congress to designate the Yellowstone…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Legislators, Lobbying, Persuasive Discourse

Kroes, Rob – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1987
This article focuses on some contributors to the journal, "The Seven Arts." These essayists and photographers were able to rise above the cultural and political thought of their times to become social critics. They opposed war and welcomed new immigrants to the United States at times when these views were unpopular. (VM)
Descriptors: Art, Ideology, Immigrants, Nationalism
Coughlin, Ellen K. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Epigrapher and philologist Bruce Zuckerman, directs an archive of photographs and other images of ancient biblical and related texts. By using sophisticated technical photography and computer graphics, he makes his photographs of ancient texts reveal more than a camera alone ever could. (MLW)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Biblical Literature, Computer Graphics, Higher Education
Williams, Richard S., Jr.; Southworth, C. Scott – Geotimes, 1983
The Landsat Program became the major event of 1982 in geological remote sensing with the successful launch of Landsat 4. Other 1982 remote sensing accomplishments, research, publications, (including a set of Landsat worldwide reference system index maps), and conferences are highlighted. (JN)
Descriptors: Cartography, Conferences, Earth Science, Geology

Lintner, Timothy – Social Studies, 2005
American society is deeply rooted in the belief that differences of all types--religious, cultural, physical, political--should be promoted in ways that serve not to divide or erode but to unify and strengthen. The premise for that American ideal is the promise and potential of difference. Although difference is often embraced, it can also be…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Photography
Brochu, Michel – Science Dimension, 1983
In August, 1981, National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched Dynamics Explorer 1 into polar orbit equipped with three cameras built to view the Northern Lights. The cameras can photograph aurora borealis' faint light without being blinded by the earth's bright dayside. Photographs taken by the satellite are provided. (JN)
Descriptors: College Science, Earth Science, Higher Education, Photography
Aviation/Space, 1982
Spurred by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) technological advances, a budding industry is manufacturing equipment and providing services toward better management of earth's resources. Topics discussed include image processing, multispectral photography, ground use sensor, and weather data receiver. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, College Science, Earth Science, Higher Education
Chattman, Ray, Ed.; And Others – 1988
Intended to inform young people about the wealth of career opportunities in the newspaper business, this magazine-style booklet, profusely illustrated with color photographs and graphics, discusses 10 career areas (advertising, art and design, business, circulation, human resources, marketing/promotion, news/editorial, news graphics and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business, Career Choice, Careers