ABSTRACT
The unique characteristic of images of photojournalism is that they are photographs of real people, people who exist outside of our minds. Many times the only way we know these people is through their images. Yet it is not uncommon to feel a bond with them. Relationships formed on the basis of viewer or reader perception of someone via mass media images, particularly images of photojournalism, push the boundaries of traditionally defined communication patterns. Exploring the sometimes intimate, sometimes public relationships that occur between persons who are photographed for publication and the photographer, as well as between the person and the mass of individuals who relate to him or her, is one route to understanding the way an imaged person becomes a part of mass society via media images.
