Documentary photography

Caponigro’s Apple is, at its core, a documentary photograph and a well composed one at that. Historically, it follows the genre of still life imagery present in so much of Western art; Apple is a simply an image of a red apple. But is it? That was the question I asked myself over and over again…

addressing social issues, and so he switched his focus from photography to motion pictures (aka videos in modern terms) as a means to reach a greater audience and to tell a clearer story. He returned to the USA and worked as a cameraman for the director Pare Lorentz on the government-sponsored documentary film The Plow That Broke the Plains, released in 1936. In 1937 Strand formed Frontier Films to make documentaries with social and political content. Of the…

In 2013 when John Szarkowski left us, the photography lost an influential and defining figure. Szarkovski known for his importance in post-war American photography, but many others know him for his skills as a great critic and an extraordinary curator. His role of curator and critic was very innovative, he started lots of arguments based on his unconventional thinking. 
In 1962, when just 36 years old John Szarkowski started his career as a director in The Museum of Modern Art in New York, he…

editorial and advertising photography, Kane’s photographic style was perceived as photo illustration due to his conceptual skills in art direction and astonishing eye in photography. He started his career in art direction at the age of twenty six with Seventeen Magazine, nevertheless ended up becoming a photographer as a result of not being happy with “doing other people’s work” as he quoted. After deciding to pursue photography, Art Kane studied under an influential photography instructor named…

There seem to be three major components to the art of photography: the subject, the photographer, and the audience. The subject must simply exist while the photographer captures its presence, documenting its significance by determining the way the photograph is taken; this process includes endless aspects that are adjusted to the photographer’s liking, such as exposure, framing, lighting, and so on and so forth. These two components work together to create an image. The only “job” of the…

Kevin Alves Instructor Kathleen Perry Photography 50B 16 May 2016 Diane Arbus and the Unusual Subjects In today’s world where selfies and sexting are common the work of Diane Arbus may seem tame. But in 1967 when the New Documents Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art featured the work Arbus, along with that of Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, as an alternative to traditional documentary photography it was shocking. Although her intimate portraits of those outside the mainstream made some…

both spoke about what she did for photography as well as science. Her work was not just art but it itself was groundbreaking for other women photographers and scientist alike. This process, of documenting ferns, allowed people to understand what they looked like, size and scale, giving proof to science and the botanist community on their existence and important documentary need. Her images allowed for women, in her time, to see that there was more to photography then just a portrait shot - also…

Ismail Ferbous, photojournalist and freelancer, in his article, “Photography as Activism”, recounts a time a garment factory collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh and how photojournalism helped spread the word. Ferbous has “received a host of awards, including ones from the World Bank and the WHO” (Ferbous22). He also helped with a documentary in the New York Times, “The Deadly Cost of Fashion.” Ferbous has done countless numbers of documentary work from climate change and HIV/ALDS in the Bangladeshi…

Photography can be monotonous taking pictures of the same thing. Reading Module three is interesting since photography had to go against a lot of norms. Artist did not see art in a form of photography but Alfred Stieglitz disagreed. Stieglitz and others photographers changed how society viewed photography. There was a particular photographer who decided to take a different approach. Edward Curtis he documented several of Indian tribes. He enjoyed his work experiencing the life of a unique…

increasingly integral to how we live within society therefore an important source in research. Throughout this essay there will be focus on how photographs participate in shaping cultural, social and public understandings of the past. The discovery of photography was announced in 1839. With…