This document discusses how to analyze documentary and news photographs. It explains that photographs shape how we think and feel about events and cultural phenomena. When analyzing photographs, one should examine the photographer's purpose and context, the original display context, and cultural interpretation contexts. Key things to watch for include staging, altering, selecting parts of, or mislabeling images. One should also examine compositional elements like distance, angle, framing, light, focus, scale, space, shape, repetition, line, and color.