Documentary photography aims to chronicle significant historical events through truthful, objective, and candid photos of people and subjects. It is typically practiced by professional photojournalists but can also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit. Early photography like daguerreotypes was a form of documentary photography as it recorded the surrounding world.

1. Documentary
Photography

2. Documentary photography usually refers
to a popular form of photography used to
chronicle significant and historical
events. It is typically covered in
professional photojournalism, but it may
also be an amateur, artistic, or academic
pursuit. The photographer attempts to
produce truthful, objective, and usually
candid photography of a particular
subject, most often pictures of people.

3. The earliest form of
photography known
as the...
Daguerreotype
This can be classed as
documentary photography, as
can all early photography due to
its nature of recording.
Photography was created purely
to document the surrounding
world.

4. As photography became slightly more accessible (I mean slightly...they still had
to carry metal plates on which to develop) photographers were sent off to far
exotic locations to report back with images of what they saw....
1860’s Civil War

5. Robert Capa

6. Eddie Adams 1970’s

7. Iraq War

8. Robert Frank

9. Diane Arbus

10. Diane Arbus

11. Nan Goldin

12. Nan Goldin

13. LARRY CLARK

14. LARRY CLARK

15. Richard Billingham (born 25
September 1970) is an English
photographer and artist who is best
known for his book Ray's A Laugh
which documents the life of his
alcoholic father Ray and obese,
heavily tattooed, mother Liz.
RICHARD
BILLINGHAM

17. Fay Godwin (17 February 1931 – 27 May
2005) was a noted British photographer,
most widely known for her black-and-white
landscapes of the British countryside and
coast.
Godwin was less active in her final years; in
a December 2004 interview for Practical
Photography, she blamed "the NHS. They
ruined my life by using some drugs with
adverse affects that wrecked my heart. The
result is that I haven’t the energy to walk
very far.”
FAY GODWIN

18. MARY ELLEN MARK

19. MARY ELLEN MARK

20. MARTIN PARR

22. WHAT IS
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23. A portrait executed in the subject's usual
environment, such as in their home or
workplace, and typically illuminates the
subject's life and surroundings.
By photographing a person in their natural
surroundings, it is thought that you will
be able to better illuminate their
character, and therefore portray the
essence of their personality.

26. WHAT IS THE
?

27. In 1935 as part of the New Deal in
the United States, the Farm
Security Administration (FSA) was
an effort during the Depression to
combat American rural
poverty. The FSA adopted a goal
of introducing America to
Americans through
photography and a group of
talented photographers.

31. A series of photographs that are
intended to tell a story or evoke a series of
emotions in the viewer. A photo essay will often
show pictures in deep emotional stages. Photo
essays range from purely photographic works
to photographs with captions or small
notes to full text essays with a few or
many accompanying photographs. Also a
slide show or similar presentation, possibly
with spoken text or music.
Also referred to as Editorial

32. EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI