The author is referring here to Adam Stacey, a 24-year-old civil servant photographed at his (.) Convinced of their journalistic validity, MacMillan went so far as to describe them as ‘the essence of reporting.’ Described as ‘vivid, factual accounts of history as it explodes around us,’ 5 they possessed characteristics fundamental to the profession: informational integrity, speed of production and transmission, and virtually immediate publication by the media.
Such was the opinion of Washington Post journalist Robert MacMillan, for whom the journalistic merit of these photographs was certain. 4 Even so, the ‘amateur’ coverage of the London bombings, produced outside of a journalistic framework, represented a conveying of information. For the first time, both the New York Times and the Washington Post ran photos on their front pages made by citizen journalists with camera phones.’ 3 Dunleavy was quick to place this fortuitous documenting of the bombings inside the spectrum of journalistic practice, even if there had been no such underlying ambition indeed, as the work of witnesses and survivors, the images were less the outcome of documentary intent than a response to a traumatic shock similar to that observed by Barbie Zelizer regarding the events of 9/11. According to Dennis Dunleavy of Southern Oregon University, who summed up the general reaction, ‘Photojournalism history was made last week. 2 The impression of newness was such that in the days following the attacks media specialists and journalists homed in on what was seen as a profound, salutary change in the journalistic profession. As never before, it seemed, 1 amateur photography imposed its presence on the front pages of major dailies in the form of images taken by eyewitnesses with mobile phones. (.)ġ A n u mber of commentators have called the media coverage of the London bombings of July 2005 a watershed in visual journalism, largely because of the new role played by amateur photography in the reporting of events. 5 Robert MacMillan, ‘Witnesses to History,’ Washington Post, July 8, 2005.
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