Documentary photography is a type of photography where photographers capture real-life events and situations to tell a story or provide information. It aims to document reality without altering or staging the scenes, presenting an unbiased and authentic view of the world.
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Much of the work shows a concern for the limits
of documentary photography and the position of the inherently subjective photographer.
The first exhibition, Photographers Among Us, reflects the evolution of American
documentary photography from the 19th century to the present day and examines the power of photography to capture history, shape public opinion, and deepen Americans» understanding of events at home and around the world.
Running alongside is our guest exhibition, #FutureofCities - a social
documentary photography project examining the mass urban shift of the global population in our major cities presented by Sony's Global Imaging Ambassors and Panos Pictures.
Grand Rapids, MI About Blog Sister Birth integrates holistic support for pregnancy, birth, and post partum with
raw documentary photography.
Vanderperre's additional career highlights include campaigns for Raf Simons, Christian Dior, Dior Homme, Jil Sander and Prada as well as
documentary photography work leading to his 2014 book, The Power of Theatrical Madness II and his 2016 directorial film debut at London's ICA with his film, Naked Heartland.
In Her Absence I Created Her Image will explore the lives of communities and individuals in the Middle East
through documentary photography, focusing on social, political, and human rights issues across Arab countries.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding the display of Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016) at the Whitney, which came to focus on (among other things) the ethics of transforming
documentary photography into art, New York's Jenkins Johnson Gallery presents Gordon Parks» photographs, including his celebrated images of the civil rights struggle.
Using 20th -
century documentary photography from a helicopter, LaToya Ruby Frazier captures the city landscapes of Memphis, Chicago, and Baltimore to explore Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy.
He has created visuals on a variety of media platforms
including documentary photography, global award - winning advertising campaigns, magazine editorials, artist branding, books, music videos, commercials, the short film Captureland, and the award - winning feature - length documentary Bouncing Cats.
Experimental and interdisciplinary, she has moved
between documentary photography and contemporary art in order to explore ideas on photography and narration.
The center's collection of more than 150,000 works includes daguerreotypes, gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints, and a host of American and
European documentary photography from 1930 to 1960.
Action / Performance Photography January 14 - March 12, 2000 This selection of
documentary photography offers a glimpse at some of the seminal moments in performance art.
Born in Colorado in 1976, his work employs some of the techniques of
traditional documentary photography to capture the hidden beauty of ordinary objects and everyday situations.
Multidisciplinary, Bay Area artist Will Rogan has recently been using
documentary photography as a guiding element in producing sculptures.
He co-founded For Freedoms, the first artist - run Super PAC, and is currently a Visiting Associate Professor in Film, Photography and Video at Hampshire College, a Visiting Professor at Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts, and a Mentor in the
Arab Documentary Photography Project.
This powerful work of
documentary photography captures the momentum of the civil rights movement through one of its lesser known demonstrations... In black - and white photos, Freedman captures the mud and grime of the encampment.
Her photography - based art features abstracted portraits set in distinctive Guyanese landscapes, and her social
documentary photography focuses on the diversity of Guyanese people, places, and cultural experiences.
«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in
which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»
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