Documentary Photography. 2 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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Documentary Photography

2 Document vs. Documentary A document is a record, a recording. A documentary is a recording and an explanation. A bigger picture.

3 Document of a landscape at this particular time and place.

Weed, Charles L. The Valley, From The Mariposa Trail Yosemite views. 1864

5 Document of a battles aftermath

Timothy O'Sullivan "A Harvest of Death" Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July, 1863

7 Document of a people

August Sander. Portrait of the German people. Early 1890s,

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.

Jacob A. Riis, Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters, c the invention of the flash bulb.... lets us see more

Jacob A. Riis A Growler Gang in Session (Robbing a Lush), 1884

Jacob A. Riis, Bandit's Roost, 1888

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.

Memphis, Tennessee. October Marion Post Wolcott,

Durham, North Carolina. May Jack Delano, photographer

Dorothea Lange woman as documentarian

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Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California, 1935

Dorothea Lange Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California. 1935

Dorothea Lange, Salinas, California. 1935

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25 Dorothea Lange

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White Angel Bread Line 1932

Dorothea Lange, Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, ear Clarksdale. Mississippi 1936

Walker Evans Crossroads store, Sprott, Alabama. 1935

Walker Evans

Bourke-White women peeling onions to be used for Campbell’s Soup, 1935

Magnum Photographers Classic Years

Steve McCurry Afgan Refugee, Pakistan, 1984

George Rodger Nuban Wrestler, Sudan, 1949

Thomas Hoepker Muhammad Ali, Chicago, 1966

Stuart Franklin Lone Protester, TianenmentSquare, Beijing, 1989

Bruce Davidson The Drawf, 1958

Leonard Freed Martin Luther King Jr., Baltimore, 1963

Robert Capa war photography, a man’s man.

Robert Capa D-Day Landing, OmahaBeach, Normandy, 1944

Robert Capa Fallen Loyalist Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936

photos take on new context when placed in a layout with other images. Juxtaposition makes meaning.

Susan Meiselas a woman war & cultural photographer

Carnival strippers. Vermont, using her role as a woman she enters the backstage world of the stripper scene.

NICARAGUA Susan Meiselas

Russell Lee The harvesting of winter wheat in Texas and Oklahoma 1949

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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