The tectonic shift in photography’s status as composed art, as opposed to photojournalism, or “capturing the moment,” began in the 1970s.
At that time, “Television brings the war home, and it brings the stories into people’s living rooms,” explains Allison Moore, curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. This, she says, spelled the end of the line for the photo-heavy magazines Life and Look. They had outlived their usefulness.
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