Bystander Photography
I have a buddy who is interning at the New York Times. The night that the London terroist bombing attacks on the busses and trains rocked the world, he IMed me to say, "You'll never believe what the Times is running on their front page tomorrow?"
The answer ended up being a picture from a cell phone -- lead on the page and big.
I opened up my paper, the next morning, and sure enough, the St. Petersburg Times did the same thing. So I checked the Newseum site, and apparently a lot of other papers were thinking the same thing. For the first time in recent memory, we've started seeing the proliferation of cell phone photos in mainstream media.
12 July 2005 by Melissa Lyttle
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