Documentary photography

he uses photography to push our popular perceptions of sexuality and fine art. The first conflict that Robert Mapplethorpe faced was the age of photography itself. Photography has not been around for very long. In fact, it was not fully considered or recognized an art form throughout the 19th century do to it being the most mechanical (not to mention newest) of mediums. Liz Wells acknowledges this argument, stating, “Central to the nineteenth-century debate about the nature of photography as a…

that is a real in a certain situation which is frequently negative. Hope is the driving force that often causes people to migrate to a different place, where they seek for new opportunities like as jobs. Moreover, there is a documentary called Farmingville and a documentary called The Overnighters that portrays the central idea of having hope and the cause of people migrating to other places to pursue the key to success.…

Night produced a sympathetic documentary about 10 innocent oil rig workers who are caught in amongst a massive storm along with the choice of the Captain on the Mermaid Vigilance a passing ship to leave the men to their death. This documentary represents the situation as it says by the title Murderous, Cowardice and heartless. As soon as the documentary starts, it opens with a re-enactment of the men clinging to the life raft to try and stay afloat. As the documentary continues there is a voice…

Leonard Cohen, Gladwell explains, is an experimental innovator, because he had worked for days, months, and even years slowly and steadily to fight to create Hallelujah. In contrast, Ed Sheeran is an example of a conceptual innovator. In a documentary called Nine Days and Nights of Ed Sheeran, filmed for MTV, Ed sheeran explains that he had been writing songs since he was young and he was influenced greatly “after [he] listened to an album by Damien Rice when [he] was about 11 or 12 years old…

Marcel Mettelsiefen’s documentary “Children of Syria” tells one family’s story of surviving in Syria’s war-torn city of Aleppo. After their father is kidnapped, the family begins their journey to Germany to escape the violence in Syria and start a new life. The documentary, which debuted on the TV program “Frontline”, films the family and their experience for over three years. The hour long segment mainly focuses on the children Sara, Farah, Helen and Mohammed. Producers used multiple…

is considered a noticeable American photographer during his time, his art is considered influential during the twentieth century because he is considered a creator in the documentary style in the American photography. His photographs documented American life and culture during 30’s/70’s. I believe his journey through photography is a journey through concept, belief, and art history. At the beginning of his practice Evans admired and reflected the American history as his work documents the actual…

change majority of their pictures instead of small parts. The reason behind photo shopping was to get rid of shadows, blemishes, poles, mistakes anything that can keep a picture from being its best potential. “And yet the amount of manipulated photography in circulation only grows along with the number of publications willing to push boundaries” (para.14). This is describing that not a lot of photos that’s been tampered with get published in magazines, but photographers still Photoshop their…

he graduated, he taught in New York City at the Ethical Culture School, where he would encourage his students to use photography as an educational medium. While teaching, Hine would take his students to Ellis Island in the New York Harbor to photograph the thousands of immigrants arriving each and every day. Between the years 1904 and 1909, Hine realized that documentary photography could be used as a tool for social change and reform…

Dorothea Lange, a famous documentary photographer and photojournalist, once said that “photography takes a moment out of time, altering life by holding it still”. As a photographer myself, I love this quote because it could never be more true. Photography is a way to capture stories and memories within a powerful image. I’m very passionate about photography because it allows me to be active, tell stories, and my skills will always be improving. Being an active and very hands on person, I love…

photojournalism and photo-documentary livelihood hinges on the factuality of the photographic images. My training and experience…