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...... Photojournalism is, as Nickel suggests, not neutral. It would be impossible to capture scenes like those Evans did on film and not send messages related to issues such as race, class, gender, and power. Images of war, homelessness, and poverty also convey poignant messages that can be construed differently by different people. The photographer presents the image but the viewer deciphers it. When photographs like those from Walker Evans are used as journalistic content, they can become imbued with meaning and political ideology. Other images are less equivocal. For example, a shot of a homeless man sleeping on a bench in Beverly Hills would immediately connote income disparity in the United States
Another issue Nickel raises in American Photographs Revisited is the confluence of art and science in the medium of photography. Evans and other professional photographers and photojournalists craft their images, painstakingly addressing variables like lighting and atmospheric conditions with tweaks to their camera techniques. New technology including digital photography and editing software has expanded the range of possibilities for photographers. The art of photography is extended to book layout in works like American Photographs. Nickel points out that American Photographs became a prototype for subsequent photojournalism and

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