Fotožurnalismus je mrtev, ať žije fotožurnalismus. Proč může digitalizace zvyšovat důvěryhodnost novinářské forografie?
Photojournalism is deadd, long live photojournalism. Why digitization can increase the credibility of journalsitic photography?

Summary/Abstract: By the end of the second half of the 1990s the analogue photography was in practice of journalism definitively replaced by the digital photography. Enthusiasm, originally aroused by numerous advantages which digitization brought to photojournalism, soon subsided due to many cases of misuse of digital technology and its easy manipulability by journalists and editors. Ethically questionable interventions into the content of photographs have been perceived as extremely serious and dangerous and according to many reactions have led to the fatal breach of trust in the truthfulness of photography, some critics have even seen them as the cause of the end of photography and the death of photojournalism. I do not intend to argue that manipulations disrupting the direct indexical connection between the photography and its referent are unproblematic and of no consequence. However, the reflections on the death of photojournalism have been overly focused on this issue which has on the one hand overshadowed the fact that there are other, more cunning ways of lying by means of photography and has on the other hand resulted in overlooking that however much the digitization has threatened the credibility of journalism, it has also brought possibilities of its strengthening. In order to see the digitization as a means of increasing the credibility of photojournalism it is important to be able to abandon to certain extent the assumptions and expectations of the photo-realist paradigm and embrace the epistemic challenges of post-realist paradigm. The following paper attempts to identify, conceptualize and on some new trends illustrate this paradigmatic shift in photojournalism.

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