Documentary Photography
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Document vs. Documentary
• A document is a record, a recording.
• A documentary is a recording and an explanation. A bigger picture.
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Document of a landscape at this particular time and
place.
Weed, Charles L.The Valley, From The Mariposa Trail Yosemite views. 1864
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Document of a battles aftermath
Timothy O'Sullivan • "A Harvest of Death" • Gettysburg, Pennsylvania • July, 1863
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Document of a people
August Sander. Portrait of the German people. Early 1890s,
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How Did Documentary Photography Change?
• Camera technology; as cameras got smaller images became more intimate; flash allowed night vision.
• The Governments economic support under President Roosevelt and the FSA-OWI 1930‘s
• Magazine Publications of the photo essay LIFE, TIME, made it possible to mass reproduce sets of photographs with text.
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Jacob A. Riis, Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters, c. 1880
the invention of the flash bulb.... lets us see more
Jacob A. Riis A Growler Gang in Session (Robbing a Lush), 1884
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Jacob A. Riis, Bandit's Roost, 1888
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Jacob Riis, Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street, c. 1889
Farm Security Administration Historical Section
The Office of War Information
photographers working for the Farm Security Administration Historical Section (later
transferred to the Office of War Information) were encouraged to document continuity and
change in many aspects of life in America
during the years the unit was in operation.
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Memphis, Tennessee. October 1939. Marion Post Wolcott,
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Durham, North Carolina. May 1940. Jack Delano, photographer
Dorothea Langewoman as documentarian
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Dorothea Lange
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Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California, 1935
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Dorothea Lange Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California. 1935
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Dorothea Lange, Salinas, California. 1935
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Dorothea Lange White Angel Bread Line1932
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Dorothea Lange, Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, ear Clarksdale. Mississippi 1936
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Walker Evans
Crossroads store, Sprott, Alabama. 1935
Walker Evans
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Bourke-White women peeling onions to be used for Campbell’s Soup, 1935
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Magnum Photographers Classic Years 1941 - 1985
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Steve McCurry Afgan Refugee, Pakistan, 1984
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George RodgerNuban Wrestler, Sudan, 1949
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Thomas HoepkerMuhammad Ali, Chicago, 1966
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Stuart FranklinLone Protester, TianenmentSquare, Beijing, 1989
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Bruce DavidsonThe Drawf, 1958
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Leonard FreedMartin Luther King Jr., Baltimore, 1963
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Robert Capawar photography, a man’s man.
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Robert CapaD-Day Landing, OmahaBeach, Normandy, 1944
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Robert CapaFallen Loyalist Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936
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photos take on new context when placed in a layout with other images. Juxtaposition makes meaning.
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Susan Meiselasa woman war & cultural photographer
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Carnival strippers.
Vermont, 1973.
using her role as a woman she enters the backstage world of the stripper scene.
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NICARAGUA. 1978-1979Susan Meiselas
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Russell Lee
The harvesting of winter wheat in Texas and
Oklahoma
1949
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
-Robert Adams,1995
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