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

"In this richly illustrated book, Helen Caple admirably combines professional know-how, analytical finesse, and theoretical insight." - Theo van Leeuwen, University of Southern Denmark "[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