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Documentary Photography

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

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  1. 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.

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

  5. Document of a battles aftermath

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

  7. Document of a people

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

  9. 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.

  10. Jacob A. Riis, Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters, c. 1880 the invention of the flash bulb.... lets us see more

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

  12. Jacob A. Riis, Bandit's Roost, 1888

  13. Jacob Riis, Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street, c. 1889

  14. 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.

  15. Memphis, Tennessee. October 1939. Marion Post Wolcott,

  16. Durham, North Carolina. May 1940. Jack Delano, photographer

  17. Dorothea Lange woman as documentarian

  18. Dorothea Lange

  19. Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California, 1935

  20. Dorothea Lange Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas, California. 1935

  21. Dorothea Lange, Salinas, California. 1935

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  23. Dorothea Lange

  24. Dorothea Lange

  25. Dorothea Lange White Angel Bread Line 1932

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

  27. Walker Evans Crossroads store, Sprott, Alabama. 1935

  28. Walker Evans

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

  30. Magnum Photographers Classic Years 1941 - 1985

  31. Steve McCurry Afgan Refugee, Pakistan, 1984

  32. George Rodger Nuban Wrestler, Sudan, 1949

  33. Thomas Hoepker Muhammad Ali, Chicago, 1966

  34. Stuart Franklin Lone Protester, TianenmentSquare, Beijing, 1989

  35. Bruce Davidson The Drawf, 1958

  36. Leonard Freed Martin Luther King Jr., Baltimore, 1963

  37. Robert Capa war photography, a man’s man.

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

  39. Robert Capa Fallen Loyalist Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936

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

  41. Susan Meiselas a woman war & cultural photographer

  42. Carnival strippers. Vermont, 1973. using her role as a woman she enters the backstage world of the stripper scene.

  43. Susan Meiselas NICARAGUA. 1978-1979

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