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Is Photojournalism Suffering from a Glut of Talent?
September 16, 2008, 10:23 pm
Filed under: SIEBERT

By Zachary Siebert

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The Unknown. (Photo: Zachary Siebert)

Recently a colleague Facebooked me with this scintillating question: who are the greatest photographers in all of history? I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time obsessing over just that question, AKA the “Impossible to Answer Because I Am Merely a Simpleton and My Opinion Would Be Unsatisfactorily Subjective” question. (While we’re at it, buddy, who are the greatest musicians and/or Secretaries of Transportation of all time?) 

Still, my colleagues and I are qualified to answer this adorable gremlin of a question because we are the most noble of newsroom types—photojournalists.

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