Does documentary photography show a true picture of the world?
Not exact matches
In addition to
photography Lloyd
does video and film projects and has won numerous awards for his work including for his
documentary More Than A Race.
In a conversation moderated by Yale Professor Rick Moody for the catalog accompanying the exhibition, the students discuss questions that have lingered since
photography's inception, such as «the nature of
documentary versus art, what the camera is best suited to
do, and who should be allowed to depict what.»
Frazier's credo — that
photography is only
documentary when it
does not replace, outdo, or determine social activism — suggests that her work should always be seen as a performative political event.
LaToya Ruby Frazier's straight
documentary photography has reignited this sleeping form and made it into a raging beast; Louis Fratino's personal, painterly depictions of everyday gay life raise the bar of figurative - visionary painting, as
do the stitched, painted, and sewn works of Tschabalala Self; ditto Katherine Bernhardt.
In 1999, she acted as artistic director of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal and organized a series of exhibitions, as well as a publication entitled Le Souci
du document (Concern for the document) that examined the «attitudes» in contemporary
documentary photography.
Photography that toes a line between
documentary work and fine art may intrinsically contain half - truths, but that
does not strip it of its sincerity, nor of its power.
In
doing so, Ewald challenged fundamental distinctions between conceptual art and
documentary photography, between photographer and subject, and between teacher and student.
I guess the argument will be about his proximity to his subject (this is no fly - on - the - wall artistic docu - soap: only an insider could
do what he
does), and the status of his work in relation to the genre of
documentary photography.
The imaginary photojournalist represents a hybrid genre that merges the appearance of straightforward
documentary photography with a carefully staged one, in a process that
does not require a camera yet mimics a straight photographic document.
Photographs make up 30 % of the collection, with many of these works made in the late 1980s and early 90s, a period in which some artists used the
documentary form of
photography and related mediums to develop powerful portraits of themselves and their communities, while others highlighted the violence
done to such communities.
In addition to
photography Lloyd
does video and film projects and has won numerous awards for his work including for his
documentary More Than A Race.
In addition to
photography Lloyd
does video and film projects and has won numerous awards for his work including for his
documentary More Than A Race.