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Truth in Images

Truth in Images. Documentary Photography:The Creation of Images to Tell a News Story. Documentary Photography.

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Truth in Images

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  1. Truth in Images Documentary Photography:The Creation of Images to Tell a News Story

  2. Documentary Photography • Separated from photojournalism, street, or celebrity photographyby the quality that the photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people. • Historically, these photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances and date to the earliest daguerreotype and colotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas. • The genre quickly adapted itself to war situations and exposés on the need for social reform.

  3. Civil War: “Harvest of Death” Timothy H. O’Sullivan’s “The Harvest of Death," depicting dead soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg.

  4. “View in a Wheat Field”

  5. “Slaughter Pen”

  6. Urban Poverty How the Other Half Lives

  7. Jacob Riis: “A Plank for a Bed” 1890

  8. Lewis Hine: “Glassworks, Midnight” 1908

  9. Children in Poverty, 1890

  10. Dorothea Lange

  11. Iconic Image Remastered Original snapshot

  12. World War II: Robert Capa “D Day”

  13. Vietnam: 1972

  14. Images of Contemporary Family: Sally Mann

  15. Diane Arbus

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