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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,

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. 1880

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 1939. Marion Post Wolcott,



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

Dorothea Langewoman as documentarian



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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Dorothea Lange

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Dorothea Lange White Angel Bread Line1932



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



Walker Evans

Crossroads store, Sprott, Alabama. 1935

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

Magnum Photographers Classic Years 1941 - 1985



Steve McCurry Afgan Refugee, Pakistan, 1984



George RodgerNuban Wrestler, Sudan, 1949



Thomas HoepkerMuhammad Ali, Chicago, 1966



Stuart FranklinLone Protester, TianenmentSquare, Beijing, 1989



Bruce DavidsonThe Drawf, 1958



Leonard FreedMartin Luther King Jr., Baltimore, 1963



Robert Capawar photography, a man’s man.



Robert CapaD-Day Landing, OmahaBeach, Normandy, 1944



Robert CapaFallen Loyalist Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936





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





Susan Meiselasa woman war & cultural photographer



Carnival strippers.

Vermont, 1973.

using her role as a woman she enters the backstage world of the stripper scene.



NICARAGUA. 1978-1979Susan 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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