LIFE Digital Journalist

Preview of new LIFE book illustrates the power of pictures...........

The Digital Journalist: 100 Photographs That Changed the World. The Digital Journalist website has presented a selection of images from the "100 Photographs That Changed the World" book, which were voted for by readers of LIFE and The Digital Journalist earlier this year. "A collection of pictures that ?changed the world? is a thing worth contemplating, if only to arrive at some resolution about the influential nature of photography and whether it is limited, vast or in between. We do not claim that LIFE?s 100 are the 100 or... [PhotographyBLOG]

A new book from Life Magazine's publisher Time, Inc. is truly a testament to the power of visual communications. Click through to the Digital Journalist site to view a subset of them. Many of the pictures are graphic and all of them are moving. These images and the stories that go along with them make you stop and think, they convey much more than the pixels that represent them on your screen. As our society gets more and more digital and electronic, are images loosing their ability to have the same impact? The "noise level" has certainly increased. 30 years ago it was the editors at LIFE that framed our view into the world based on the photos they selected to publish. Today, the stream of imagery is like drinking water from a fire hose. It is the paradox of open-source media. The free flow of ideas, images and opinions can be both empowering and overwhelming.