truth in images documentary photography:the creation of images to tell a news story
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Documentary Photography
• Separated from photojournalism, street, or celebrity photography by the quality that the photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.
• Historically, these photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances and date to the earliest daguerreotype and colotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas.
• The genre quickly adapted itself to war situations and exposés on the need for social reform.
Civil War: “Harvest of Death”
Timothy H. O’Sullivan’s “The Harvest of Death," depicting dead soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg.