Since the emergence of photography onwards it can be drawn as the most genuine form to capture and shape reality. Nonetheless, this last regard does not necessarily result in objectify which is imperative for photojournalistic. For this photographic branch it matters how to tell a reliable story through the exposure of images.
So if one of the goals of photography is to apprehend a moment, for photojournalism this detail is not enough. In contrast, whatever the image shows, it should contain objectivity due to the mass-market interest as a journalistic material being that is acquired a journalism ethics.
In the early 1890's the weekly periodical Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (also recognized as BIZ) in Germany started an interesting journalistic proposal piled up of eye-catching photo-essays on it. Next, World Wars caused mass-circulation of these sort of publications around Europe and the United States. Having, as a consequence, a large turning of art photographers into photojournalists.
Given that detail, artists were aware a rising social significance of mass media. That exemplifies an early idea of a new value of the image: hurry, instantaneity, disclosure. Far from the classical artistic construction of what an image is.
Photojournalism it is an iconographic tool that through new mechanisms of modern media embodies a concept of image readiness consumption. Likewise, current technology is making more democratic the broadcasting of journalistic images by anyone. Thus, everyone is a reporter. Everyone has something to show (tell).
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