Black Photojournalism
Stephen Frailey, Brooklyn Rail
December/January 2025-26
To some, photojournalism, and documentary photography riding shotgun, has been the most noble of photographic genres, with the presumption of fact and evidence and the medium as reliable, objective witness. In its heyday throughout the last century, photography in newspapers and magazines advanced a shared visual literacy and galvanized social change and a promise of democratic commonality from the ubiquitous corner newsstand. […]