I read with great interest what people here say about HCB and photojournalism. Of course, good or bad sample photo links would add a lot for me and make some point of views clearer and spicier too :-)
I'm positive influenced on photo journalism, because one of my personal favorite photos from my younger days is a press photo published in a Keystone book back in 1981 ;-) Okay, that's not the real reason, but a good one! I would love to and surely could learn a lot from HBC and other photographers, sometimes it is hard to teach yourself everything. I often catch the right moments, but all of my photos still have technical shortcomings, so they remain (just)loved snapshots for me. Have a look at an example of good photo journalism imho: The photographer is unknown to me, the Book is called "Zurich against Zurich" - Zürich gegen Zürich: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2587369 1981 Zurich, a protest march of 6000 demonstrants against the subsidize of the local Opera with 60 million Swiss francs and no money or space for alternative culture in return are stopped on the bridge near Lake Zurich. 300 Police men are prepared to enforce law and order. A well known evangelic priest (Ernst Sieber) achieves an armistice agreement for 10 minutes and everything went by peaceful means *this* time. The demonstrations of the youth where the most violent and longest in the history of Switzerland later.... greetings Markus >
