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Photojournalism In The 1950's

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Photography as an accepted art form also flourished during the 1950s. The photographers were considered to be of low esteem and photographers like Ansel Adams was forced to eke out his living by working on portraits, publicity, industrial reports and catalogues and he has to surrender his passion for natural landscape while fulfilling assignments for Life magazine. A photography exhibit titled The Family of Man was debuted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Photojournalism was also in vogue in the 1950s. Photojournalist was in high demand as newspapers and magazine editors tried to entice readers away from the lure of the television. But there also existed more immediate ideological implications for photojournalism in the 1950s.
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