The US election is over and analysis has started!

Photography can have a huge impact in any campaign from the negative to the positive. Below are two links to election campaign photo footage and their specific use that helped shape history:

• Canadian Prime Minister hopeful Robert Stanfield fumbles one football out of many fine catches. The Globe and Mail prints the 1974 fumble photo that many people believe cost him the election and solidified Pierre Trudeau’s win. See the CBC video story
• Barack Obama used great media coverage to get his face in the white house.

A picture is worth a thousand words… and can sway popular opinion!

Harry