documentary photography ncea 2.2
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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
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
MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHYhttp://www.magnumphotos.com
STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLINEhttp://www.seconds2real.com/
http://www.streephers.com/
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