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  2. Documentary photography - Wikipedia

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    John Beasly Greene's photo of the Abu Simbel temples, 1854 Bandit's Roost (1914) by Jacob Riis. The term document applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. . Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances date to the earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt ...

  3. Category:Documentary photography - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... Documentary photographers (1 C, 182 P) Photojournalism (8 C ...

  4. Social documentary photography - Wikipedia

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    Social documentary photography or concerned photography is the recording of what the world looks like, with a social and/or environmental focus. It is a form of documentary photography, with the aim to draw the public's attention to ongoing social issues. It may also refer to a socially critical genre of photography dedicated to showing the ...

  5. New Documents - Wikipedia

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    New Documents was an influential [1] documentary photography exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1967, curated by John Szarkowski. [2] It presented photographs by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand and is said to have "represented a shift in emphasis" [3] and "identified a new direction in photography: pictures that seemed to have a casual, snapshot-like look and ...

  6. Photography - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Art and practice of creating images by recording light For other uses, see Photography (disambiguation). Photography of Sierra Nevada Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically ...

  7. Visual anthropology - Wikipedia

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    Karl G. Heider notes in his revised edition of Ethnographic Film (2006) that after Bateson and Mead, the history of visual anthropology is defined by "the seminal works of four men who were active for most of the second half of the twentieth century: Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and Tim Asch. By focusing on these four, we can see ...

  8. Direct cinema - Wikipedia

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    Cinema in its ontological objectivity was seen by many viewers as reality captured and a means of universal education, as had been photography in its early period. Documentaries from the 1950s provide insight into the level of understanding that viewers of that day had of manipulation and mise-en-scène in films shot on "documentary sets ...

  9. Documentary film - Wikipedia

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    This 16 mm Bolex "H16" reflex camera uses spring-wound type technology and has been an entry-level camera used in multiple film schools.. A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". [1]