In the late #1920s, early 1930s, German #photographers Tim Gidal, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Felix Man and Erich Salomon (among others) started what is know as Modern Photojournalism. Their work was profusely printed on the many #illustrated_newspapers and #magazines at the time.
For example, Felix Man's most famous #photo_series, A Day in The Life of Mussolini, was an assignment for the Munich Illustrated Press in 1931, and Alfred Eisenstaedt was nicknamed "the eye of the century".
The forerunner was probably #Erich_Salomon, starting in 1928. Being a gentleman and jurist, he was allowed to #photograph high-level meetings and #conferences. In 1931 a French minister called him "le roi des indiscrets" - the expression "tabloid journalism" had not yet been invented.

• photo 1: diplomats at the 1930 Second Hague Reparation Conference
• photo 2: National Socialists in Reichstag
• photo 3: Briand discovers Salomon, "Ah, le voilà! Le roi des indiscrets", 1931
• photo 4: Dutch Deputies look at Erich Salomon's book "Famous Contemporaries During Unguarded Moments", The Hague

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