Daring do of the News Photographer
Toronto. From the very beginning of the art we had studio and landscape photographers. As the art evolved, becoming faster in exposure, simpler in execution, and growing in popularity, the professional focus rapidly diversified.
An example is this 1913 article from “Popular Electricity and World’s Advance”, showing a news photographer taking to the air in an aircraft whose technology was barely a decade old. Scary stuff showing the daredevils of news photography who will take great risks to make a photo for their newspaper.
This post is based on an article emailed to me by my good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar.
