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Unite for Sight - April 17, 2011  Yale University Telling the Story: Documentary Photography for NGOs
 
 
 
 
Documentary Photography
 
What is photography?
[object Object],[object Object],Elliot Erwitt -  Magnum Stories ; Pg. 138
We’re responsible for EVERYTHING in the frame.
The Frame.
 
Placement of the subject
Eleanor, Chicago, 1949 © Harry Callahan
© Henri Cartier-Bresson/ Magnum Photos
The Rule of Thirds …
 
 
 
 
Our next choice is where to put the horizon?
What is this photograph about ?
The Earth or the sky?
Ansel Adams. Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona, 1942
© 1982 by William Albert Allard from  Vanishing Breed , published by the New York Graphic Society Books
© Joseph Koudelka/ Magnum Photos
 
 
Pay special attention to  the edges of the frame.
 
 
© Alex Webb, Magnum Photos
Light.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Blue Sixty: The sixty-minutes  after the sun has  gone over the horizon.
 
 
 
 
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