Learning the history of photojournalism

                In my study of the history of photojournalism I discovered that in the 1870's photographs were not being used in a print form in newspapers. What were being used were drawings inspired by photographs. A photographer would take a photo, develop it and hand it over to an artist. The artist would then sketch what he saw in the photograph, taking away items or adding to the picture as he saw fit. It was not until 1891 that photo started to appear using a machine called the halftone press. Still many publications were slow to incorporate photos. Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, is said to have commented that any wide spread use of pictures would lower the papers dignity (according to our textbook Photojournalism: The Professionals’ Approach, sixth edition).