Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach

Helen Caple is a Lecturer in Media, Communications and Journalism at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Her primary research interests centre on press photography and text-image relations. She is the co-author of News Discourse (with Monika Bednarek) and has also worked as a press photographer in the UK.

• 1. Introducing the Multisemiotic News Story 2. News Values and the Multisemiotic News Story 3. The Multiple Functionality of News Images 4. Composition and Aesthetic Value in Press Photography 5. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 1: Image as Nucleus 6. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 2: Image as Satellite 7. Text-image Relations in News Discourse Part 3: Sequences of Images 8. Evolving Practices

“This book is richly illustrated and provides a careful account of the tools available, effectively demonstrating how they can be applied, as well as how Caple has developed them to apply more closely to news images. … this is a worthwhile and timely contribution to the field of news discourse, which Caple has rightly demonstrated as, for all intents and purposes, multimodal.” (Helan A. Sissons, Communication Research and Practice, Vol. 3 (1), 2017)"[Caple's] knowledge base and experience make for some interesting research." - CHOICE"By presenting a systematic analysis of press photographs and providing a set of useful tools for their interpretation, Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach successfully redresses the imbalance between words and images in news discourse studies, and its insightful account of text image relations, in particular, constitutes a timely and valuable contribution to the area of multimodal discourse analysis." - Discourse & Communication