Photography Lecture

• Documentary Photography
• View from a window
• Has a fascination compared to a document
• Could instigate social change
• Evidence, Record, a document of the world as it is
• History for later years
• Documentary photographs creates a bond with audience
• Jamesnachtwey.com
• How the others live
• Show darker contents to the west
• Photographer removed from scene creates authenticity
• Photography isn't a neutral document
• War photography, provokes empathy
• Mundane scenes become popular, highly posed images of regular life/ Henri Cartier Bresson
• Decisive moment/ composed images
• Jacob Riis
• Photographed lower class in New York 1880. to campaign to encourage reformation
• Camera with a conscious/ curiosity from the rich
• Artificially representative, posing for the camera as bandits, Gangs robbing, posing all wearing same clothes. using stereotypes of working class.
• Lewis Hine
• 1908 empathy and humanity
• Get his images out into the world.
• FSA Photographers 1935-44 depression 11 mil unemployed.
• Given shooting scripts of what the government want to use as an emotive tool
• Boy with Dog
• Porothea Lange Migrant Mother
• Propaganda
• Victorian era Photography used for scientific purposes compare and contrast.
• Brand People Racism. curiosity
• Robert Capa
• Magnum Group
• humanitarian perspective.