Influenced
by social documentary photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and August Sander, Opie underscores and elevates the poignant yet unsettling veracity of her subjects.
Opie was originally inspired
by social documentary photographers like Lewis Hine, but outside of photojournalism, there aren't a lot of contemporary artists looking at the world the way Hine did.
Not exact matches
The project is led
by Gina Minielli Gunkel, a professional
social documentary photographer (SPQ class of 2016), and Nancy Bruno, a NYC public school teacher and ceramic sculpture artist (Queens College MFA class of 2017).
Now regarded as a classic photography project, Tulsa has been acclaimed as a powerful and highly personal
social documentary, still emulated
by art and fashion
photographers alike — a reputation due in no small part to its enduring capacity to shock.