Michael Hallett

Being There Michael Hallett

The elements of Being There have become fragments of biographies that collectively follow the progress of picture journalism from the advent of the miniature camera through to the arrival and impact of the digital age. It covers a ninety year period from from ca1923 to 2012 and provides a critical compilation of encounters with individual photographers and their icons. This is not a history of modern photojournalism but a meander through the media's past, just stopping at strategic points to mark in the detail and paint in the colour.