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Whitman’s journalistic career plays an important role to develop his writing style which goes toward “fact” and “reality.” Before publishing his first poetry Leaves of Grass in 1855, Whitman wrote a variety of articles for the newspapers such as New York Aurora, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New Orleans Daily Crescent, etc. He invariably emphasizes that a journalist should have “a sharp eye” to acquire “the real” from a “the counterfeit presentment of the real.” Strolling along the streets of New York, Whitman with journalist-as-reformer’s “sharp eye” realistically captures urban problems and social issues. Significantly, Whitman’s statement “In these Leaves, everything is literally photographed” best epitomizes the profound influences of photography in his poetry. His journalist’s perspective as a reformer and photographer firmly stands on the basis of his poetry and prose. Whitman keeps on writing for newspapers even during the Civil War. As seen in a series of articles “City Photographs” in 1862 for the newspaper, it is not difficult to find Whitman’s preference for using photographic representations in his wartime prose and poetry. As the journalist-as-photographer poet, Whitman could realistically represent the detailed images of war and death, which is “like trying to photograph a tempest.” Obviously, he knows that “the real atmosphere” of war in his wartime poetry cannot be complete without photography which uniquely can catch a death. It becomes evident that Whitman’s journalistic vision indivisibly related to photography allows him to be a journalist with a camera or a photojournalist.
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