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  Documentary photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Documentary photography usually refers to a type of professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur or student pursuit.
Sometimes an organization or company will commission documentary photography of its activities, but the pictures will only be for its private archives.
Sometimes amateurs unintentionally make documentary pictures that are later found to be of great historical value, since they are good images of subjects that have since disappeared forever and which no-one else bothered to record.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Documentary_photography   (345 words)

  
 Francisco Mata Rosas
Documentary photography is breaking new trails in the same way as, and alongside with, communications.
Photography has dodged what many believed to be eminent death at the hands of live communication and moving images.
To debate the peculiarities of documentary work versus that which is not documentary (although even at this point I am not absolutely certain which is which), seems complicated to me. It reminds me of those roundtables that debated whether or not photography was an art.
www.zonezero.com /magazine/articles/mata/matatext.html   (1720 words)

  
 What’s documentary about photography?
Digitalization is the prime suspect in the much-discussed death of photojournalism and crisis of documentary photography (though “the end of photography as evidence of anything” is surely one among many instances of the postmodern retreat from the referent).
I use the word “directed” to describe the genre of photojournalism characterized by the photographer’s intervention in the scene he or she is photographing, though the term “quasi-journalistic” might be more exact, since these individuals are working within the notions of non-interference and believability that reign in the contexts of news imagery.
Documentary credibility is based on the belief of nonintervention in the photographic act, and its discourse is structured into “codes of objectivity” that veil the effect of the photojournalist’s presence (Schwartz 1992).
www.zonezero.com /magazine/articles/mraz/mraz01.html   (892 words)

  
 Making Sense of Documentary Photography
Making Sense of Documentary Photography provides a place for students and teachers to grapple with the documentary images that often illustrate textbooks but are almost never considered as historical evidence in their own right.
Portions of this latter volume were the subject of a BBC documentary on photographs of Depression America.
Curtis is currently at work on a book manuscript on the impact of racial attitudes on documentary photography during the 1930s.
historymatters.gmu.edu /mse/Photos   (185 words)

  
 Street & Documentary Forum: Documentary Photography
Documentary photography doesn't appear much on photo.net because it takes a level of concentration and commitment to a subject and to photographing that subject that most photo.netters don't have.
What sets documentary photography apart is you go out not to create unconnected images but to create a body of work, all relating to a single subject, and as Jeff pointed out, all shot with a consistent point of view.
Documentary photography is a deeper, broader undertaking that no single image, or mere handful of images, can succeed at.
www.photo.net /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=004KmO   (3178 words)

  
 Documentary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up documentary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Documentary evidence, evidence presented to a court in the form of documents
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Documentary   (93 words)

  
 What’s documentary about photography?
In the sort of brief encounter that seems to have been typical of FSA photography, Lange took six pictures of the woman and her children in the space of ten minutes.
Comparing the various images makes it clear that Lange had the woman and two children pose in different positions until she had the photo she wanted: the mother’s face is framed by her hand, reflecting her anguish, and the children look away from the camera so as not to distract.
A glance at the newspapers of the period, and the photography produced by the foremost Spanish photojournalist of the war, Agustí Centelles, confirms the notion that many images were posed.
www.zonezero.com /magazine/articles/mraz/mraz02.html   (1987 words)

  
 Indivisible - Documentary Intentions in Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Documentary photographs are considered to be visual records of events, people, places, and other subjects.
Color processes in photography extend back to the early years of the twentieth century, but were somewhat ignored by documentarians because color had been closely associated with commercial rather than artistic practices.
The use of color in documentary work did not come into wide practice until the 1960s, when commercial color film processes were perfected.
dizzy.library.arizona.edu /branches/ccp/education/guides/indivweb/INTENT.htm   (920 words)

  
 Early Documentary Photography | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
By the beginning of the twentieth century, photography was well on its way to becoming the visual language it is today, the pervasive agent of democratic communication.
Photographers used its growing influence to expose society's evils, which the prosperous, self-indulgent Belle Époque chose to ignore: the degrading conditions of workers in big-city slums, the barbarism of child labor, the terrorism of lynching, the devastation of war.
The rigorous demands of detailed record photography soon influenced his painting as the direct, generally frontal assessment of both an object's form and structure retrained and refined his eye.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/edph/hd_edph.htm   (1241 words)

  
 Photojournalism - Documentary Photography
Photography's role in social documentary is well established.
Documentary portfolio of freelance photographer Chico Sanchez in Caracas, Venezuela.
B&W Documentary Photographs From The U.S. of A. By Robert M Johnson.
www.fabfotos.com /photo/galleries/f_Photojournalism_Documentary.shtml   (276 words)

  
 Documentary Photography - Canadian Centre for Documentary Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Just recently launched and still in its early stages of formation, the Canadian Centre for Documentary Photography is a non-profit organization which seeks to fund and otherwise encourage documentary photography projects of social value, especially those that assist charities and other non-profit groups in their public education programs.
If many on-going documentary projects were gathered together in one place in a kind of international directory, then this would become a resource for editors, photo researchers, and non-profit or for-profit organizations seeking documentary style photography on a specific subject matter.
If you are a professional documentary photographer or photojournalist and would like to help "beta test" the site during its construction phase, please email us and include the URL to your commercial web site.
www.documentaryphotography.org   (594 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Photography: Techniques and Styles: Documentary: Photographers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Privitera, Marisa - Monochrome and documentary photography on Sicily, the North End of Boston, Florida and Italian immigrants.
Richard Sobol Photography - Documentary photographs by Richard Sobol including the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda, Architect Frank Gehry and the design and construction of MIT Stata Center wildlife and endangered species
Russell, Tobin - Assignment documentary and editorial photojournalist.
dmoz.org /Arts/Photography/Techniques_and_Styles/Documentary/Photographers   (3588 words)

  
 Documentary Photography
Against this pattern of sterility, of ideas which could not reproduce themselves, we have the new function (and evolving from it the new esthetic) of documentary photography, an application of photography direct and realistic, dedicated to the profound and sober chronicling of the external world.
The reason that the difference may so clearly be illustrated is that the difference in ideas of the new photography and all the old styles is like the difference between two continents: it is a "passage to India" to travel from the old to the new.
One cannot imagine a Joyce or a Proust producing documentary photographs, if photography were their medium.
newdeal.feri.org /pn/pn139.htm   (1725 words)

  
 Street
Effective street photography is about telling a story in a single frame, not simply recording what was there at a particular time and in a specific place.
As in every genre of photography there are ideal tools and then there are opportunistic tools.
I was traveling to a lunch meeting, and photography was not foremost on my mind.
www.luminous-landscape.com /tutorials/street.shtml   (1573 words)

  
 Leica Photography Forum: No Words: Documentary Photography
Documentary tells a story with multiple images, and has a strong message and purpose.
Personally, I think the label "documentary" photography is best suited to describing work that has a strong social, historical and/or educational orientation.
Many famous photographers have made documentary photography what it is today, and if you were to tell them that their work, as well as a single image was documentary photography, you'd be shot.
www.photo.net /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=005JGf   (918 words)

  
 Search - Documentary Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Making Sense of Documentary Photography provides a place for students and teachers to grapple with the documentary images that often illustrate textbooks...
The Canadian Centre for Documentary Photography is a non-profit organization that assists other charities and non-profit organizations with documentary...
The proof that documentary photography is not a fad or a vogue lies in the history of...
www.azuswebworks.com /photography/search.php?searching_for=Documentary   (236 words)

  
 Workshops/Institutes
The workshop is appropriate for anyone seeking a collaborative approach to documentary work or wanting to explore new approaches to documentary photography.
This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to engage photography as an art form and educational medium; as a mode of self-exploration; as a way to connect visual literacy to verbal and written communication; and as a tool to facilitate community dialogue.
Her photographs are in major collections, including the International Center of Photography and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
cds.aas.duke.edu /courses/workshops.html   (1786 words)

  
 STILLSCENES.COM | Documentary photography services
As a documentary photographer, I treat your special event the same as I would an editorial assignment for any publication - to capture the story through telling fl and white photographs - anywhere in the world.
Unlike many photographers who will photograph your event in the ‘documentary style’, I am a photographer who has his roots in documentary photography, with over 10 years of international experience in the field.
if you are interested in capturing your event event in true documentary style, hire a documentary photographer to shoot it...
www.stillscenes.com /docwedding2.html   (218 words)

  
 Pictures Photography refdesk.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
American Museum of Photography, The - "Web exhibits bring great images from the history of photography to your computer screen, drawn from a private collection of more than 5,000 photographs.
Masters of Photography - This archive of photography includes biographies, articles, and scanned images that are viewable in three size formats.
Photography Tips - "PhotographyTips.com is for everyone with an interest in photography.
www.refdesk.com /photo.html   (1320 words)

  
 Social Documentary Photography
Social Documentary Photography may be defined as the act of recording, with a camera, human beings in their natural (ie unposed) condition.
I am attracted to social documentary photography because it deals with reality; revealing and making permanent every aspect of human nature.
The social documentary photographers of the twentieth century have ensured the old adage "out of sight out of mind" can no longer be taken for granted by providing us with the opportunity to see the world through their eyes.
www.twinisles.com /socdoc.htm   (1592 words)

  
 :: Arts :: Photography :: Techniques and Styles :: Documentary
A documentary project where disposable cameras are labeled and released into the wild with instructions for unwary PhotoTaggers to take one picture and pass the camera on.
Spaceshoot - The documentary work of a group of young photographers from Years 9 and 10 at Cambridge School, Hammersmith, London, England, UK illustrating their views on architecture in Hammersmith.
The White Cloud Photography Workshops - Devoted to the appreciation of documentary photography and the enlightenment of those who have committed themselves to it.
www.localadsearch.com /Arts/Photography/Techniques_and_Styles/Documentary   (433 words)

  
 benlifson.com
He is represented in the collections of the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, the National Museum of American Art, and the Minneapolis Art Institute.
He has taught the history of photography everywhere he has taught photography, and was special lecturer in the subject in the art history department, Yale.
In 1985 he established the photography program of Bard's Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Art, and was its sole teacher through 1987.
www.benlifson.com   (934 words)

  
 Document Library: Text Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The rise of documentary photography does not spring from fashion.
Rather its rapid growth represents strong organic forces at work, strong creative impulses seeking an outlet suitable to the serious and tense spirit of our age.
The proof that documentary photography is not a fad or a vogue lies in the history of other movements in photography.
newdeal.feri.org /texts/337.htm   (57 words)

  
 MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.749 Documentary Photography and Photo Journalism: Still ...
The seminal intellectual examination of photography and its role in modern life - often pedantic, and often boring, but filled with both maddening and extremely insightful observations about photography and photographers.
While photography per se is only a peripheral part of this work, the principles and ideas discussed by Coles apply as much to documentary photography as they do to any other type of documentary fieldwork.
The photographers talk about their careers, work, and lives in documentary photography.
ocw.mit.edu /OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-749Documentary-Photography-and-Photo-Journalism--Still-Images-of-A-World-In-MotionSpring2002/Readings   (400 words)

  
 photography, still: Art and Documentary Photography
Photography's legitimacy as an art form was challenged by artists and critics, who seized upon the mechanical and chemical aspects of the photographic process as proof that photography was, at best, a craft.
For a time the two traditions, art photography and documentary photography, appeared to be merged within the work of one man, Paul Strand.
Documentary evidence; This year's Citibank Photography Prize contenders are more interested in taking pictures than making art.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0860370.html   (766 words)

  
 Personal Documentary Photography
I am always surprised when I see how many people have a passion for photography and how many young and not so young people are tempted by this profession, to try the adventure.
When asked I try to explain the struggles, but also that it is certainly possible to do.
In 1978 he left the movie scene for photography and starts working with Sipa Press Agency.
www.cfje.dk /cfje/Uddbase.nsf/ID/UB04478989   (511 words)

  
 Guidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Documentary Photography Project of the Open Society Institute offers a grant to encourage new ways of presenting documentary photography to the public.
The grant enables photographers who have already completed a significant project on issues of social justice to present the work to the public in innovative and appropriate ways, ensuring that the work gains critical exposure and also has the greatest chance to stimulate constructive social change.
photography exhibitions that serve only the photographer’s or gallery’s interests;
www.soros.org /initiatives/photography/focus_areas/distribution/guidelines   (510 words)

  
 Black and White: Nature: Nude: Digital: Travel: Landscape: Fine Art Photography Webrings
The webring concept is not new but what is unique about Photography Webrings is that it is only for photography sites.
The advantage of this is that you get interested visitors to your photo site and become a part of a community of photographers with similar interests.
For the surfer Photography Webrings provides a convenient way to find photo sites of similar themes and explore new genres of photography they may not have yet discovered.
www.photography-webrings.net   (146 words)

  
 Editorial photography by Joshua Curry
A collection of documentary photography by Atlanta based photographer Joshua Curry.
From a documentary perspective, subjects include southerners, parades, rodeos, go-kart races, and bluegrass festivals.
I am an editorial and documentary photographer based in Atlanta, Ga. My main emphasis over the past few years has been photojournalism, but lately I have been pursuing more personal projects.
www.joshuacurry.com   (174 words)

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