Truth in Images Documentary Photography:The Creation of Images to Tell a News Story

Documentary Photography Separated from photojournalism, street, or celebrity photography by the quality that the photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people. Historically, these photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances and date to the earliest daguerreotype and colotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas. The genre quickly adapted itself to war situations and exposés on the need for social reform.

Civil War: “Harvest of Death” Timothy H. O’Sullivan’s “The Harvest of Death," depicting dead soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg.

“View in a Wheat Field”

“Slaughter Pen”

Urban Poverty How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis: “A Plank for a Bed” 1890

Lewis Hine: “Glassworks, Midnight” 1908

Children in Poverty, 1890

Dorothea Lange

Iconic Image Remastered Original snapshot

World War II: Robert Capa “D Day”

Vietnam: 1972

Images of Contemporary Family: Sally Mann

Diane Arbus