photojournalistn.
/ˌfəʊtəʊˈjəːnəlɪst/, /ˌfəʊtəʊˈjəːnl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌfoʊdəˈdʒərnl̩əst/ A journalist or photographer who specializes in the journalistic use of photographs.
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photojournalist1938
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographer > [noun] > professional
cameraman1883
press photographer1901
photojournalist1938
staff photographer1941
lensman1951
paparazzo1961
paparazzi1981
pap1988
1938 A. Eisenstaedt in W. D. Morgan & H. M. Lester Miniature Camera Wk. iii. 37/1 The photo-journalist must work in very close contact with the editors who are to use his pictures.
1963 A. E. Woolley Creative 35mm Techniques III. 113/2 At all times a photojournalist is aware of the maximum emotion or conflict of the subject of the story.
1974 National Geographic Aug. 252 At last I am here in North Korea, the first American photojournalist to gain entry into a country cloistered from the non-Communist world for a quarter of a century.
2002 Times 6 Mar. (T2 section) 11/1 In the hands of a virtuoso photojournalist, disaster makes some of the most intimate and assured images of our time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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