Documentary photography
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Wikipedia
Featured:  |
Documentary photography usually refers to a type of professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur or student pursuit. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people. The Pictures usually depict a certain perspective of the Photographer.
Usually such photographs are meant for publication, but are sometimes only for exhibition in an art gallery or other public forum. Sometimes an organization or company will commission documentary photography of its activities, but the pictures will only be for its private archives.
Contents |
[edit]
Notable documentary photographers
[edit]
United States
- Berenice Abbott
- William Eggleston
- Walker Evans
- Robert Frank
- Lee Friedlander
- Jim Goldberg
- Nan Goldin
- Lauren Greenfield
- Lewis Hine
- Dorothea Lange
- Mary Ellen Mark
- Steve McCurry
- James Nachtwey
- Gordon Parks
- Eugene Richards
- Jim Richardson
- Jacob Riis
- Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
- W. Eugene Smith
- Garry Winogrand
- Sally Mann
- Daniel Lorenzetti
[edit]
Europe
- Eugene Atget
- Gertrude Blom
- Bill Brandt
- Brassaï
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Gisèle Freund
- David Hurn
- Josef Koudelka
- Don McCullin
- Martin Parr
- August Sander
- Roman Vishniac
[edit]
Other
- David Goldblatt (South Africa)
- Sebastiao Salgado (Brazil)
- Andrew Stark (Australia)
- Peter Magubane (South Africa)
See also Social documentary photography
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Documentary photography" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
