In todays video I respond to the proliferation of the genre 'post documentary photography' by going way back to the birth of documentary photography itself to find it's TRUE POWER.
I look through a TIME LIFE Library Photo Book from the 1970's and get into some of the greats of the genre who, without question, changed the world at the start of documentary photography as a genre.
The video includes some thoughts on these amazing crusaders with cameras who honoured humanity:
Jacob Riis
Lewis Hine
The Photo-League of New York
Henri Cartier-Bresson
and many more...
I know documentary photography is not a trendy genre in the tapestry of Photoland....but I love it!
CORRECTION
The organisation doing the "post documentary photography" mentoring is PhotoWork (USA) not PhotoWorks (UK).
Movie Clips from:
Nanook of the North. Robert J. Flaherty. (Totally ethically questionable)
'Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York'. Daniel Allentuck / Nina Rosenblum
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13 авг 2024