Sentences with phrase «extend social documentary»

While the pictures on view fall into a more conventional category of portraiture, carefully constructed images of sitters who pose and allow themselves to be choreographed and photographed over time, Opie's portraits arguably extend social documentary into the present moment.

Not exact matches

They will explore the ways these recent bodies of work both extend and depart from Opie's longstanding interests in documentary photography, community and identity, the built and social American landscape, as well as the capacity of photography to bear witness to what might otherwise remain unseen.

This duality extends further through the use of the ethical guidelines of both traditional social documentary and staged photography.