Documentary Photography NCEA 2.2

What is Documentary

Photography?

The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually

candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.

Photography that has a connection to real situations and that attempts to represent those situations

with minimal distortion.

What is Social Documentary? The act of recording,

with a camera, human beings in their

natural (ie unposed) condition.

With the purpose of bringing attention to

a particular aspect of

society in hopes of change.

Garry Winograd

Street photography tends to be more of a private and individual practice of photographing in public places. Usually, though not always, the interest is connected to urban life, since that's where so much happens on the street.

Photojournalism is a particular form of

journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a story.

Peiter Ten Hoopen

A representation of a person or scene recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material (digital censor)

Photo

The timely reporting of events at the local, provincial, national

and international levels.

Journalism

The photograph tells a complete story…

Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of

photography (such as Documentary photography, Street

photography or celebrity photography) by the qualities of:

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Timeliness

The images have meaning in the context of a recently publishedrecord of events

objectivty

The situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both content and tone.

A photojournalist uses pictures

instead of words to tell a story.

They can also accompany their images

with some text to elaborate

on the details or events.

The images combine with other news elements to

make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a

cultural level.

DHARAVI SLUM, MUMBAI

Narrative

The Decisive Moment…

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1. Anticipation

2. Timing

3. Composition

What makes a photojournalist different from a photographer?

Photographers take pictures of nouns. E.g. People, Places, Things…

Photojournalists take pictures of action verbs, “Scream, Kick, Explode”…

However, photojournalists do take some nouns…

The nouns we seek must still tell a story.

WORLD PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEARSHOUTING PROTESTS FROM ROOFTOPS, IRAN

What is the Farm Security Administration (FSA)?

In 1935 as part of the New Deal in the United States, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Depression to

combat American rural poverty.

The FSA adopted a goal of introducing America to Americans through

photography and a group of talented photographers.

We’ve seen this image before… In what context?

Dorothea Lange

Diary Documentary

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