Jacob A. Riis "a growler gang in session" ( robbing a lush) 1887 - street Arabs, the lawless youth, rein-acted
Lewis hine, Russian steel workers, homestead 1908 - sociological, never exploit, retains self, reports the conditions
Duffer boy 1909
F.S.A- farm security administration - migration, desperate for work
Margaret Bourke-white "sharecroppers home" 1937 - temporary structure built for shelter, lined with newspaper, practical material, insulated, creative, not objective, Opposite of American dream
Russell lee "interior of a black farmers house" 1939 - less artistic use of composition, meekly recording
Dorothea Lange "migrant mother" 1936
Hungry, desperate, no name or her history
Iconic, classic mother n child sitch,
Walker Evans - floyd Burroughs (gerorge gudger) hale county 1936 - no editing or manipulation, real gritty poverty
Bill Brandt - Northumberland miners at his evening meal 1937 - northerner, working class
Robert frank 'parade - Hoboken, New Jersey' 1958 - contradict, othering not exploitative
William Klein st Patrick's day, fifth avenue 1954 - 55 - his presents is akbowledged
Dance in Brooklyn 1955 - blur, dark connotation, captures movement of the city, grain and blur - redefine the tradition of documentary
Magnum group - founded in 1947 by henri Cartier Bresson - unaware of presence , seamless photographer, surrealism, mystery
The decisive moment - photography achieves its highest distinction - reflecting the universality of the human condition in a never-to-be moment
France 1932 pic , reflection in the water, sees the world as a stage, no manipulation, modernism, truth to the materials
Documentary and war
Robert capa "the falling soldier" 1935 - the moment of the soldiers death, claims its wasn't real,
Robert capa " Normandy, France" 1945
George Rodger "Bergen - Belsen concentration camp" 1945 , horror,
Lee miller
Hung cong ut - attack 1972, anti war statement, iconic, viewers discuss, relation of the photographer to the subject,
Robert haeberle "people about to be shot" 1969 - implicit shooting, desire to gather info, overrides human response
Don McCullin "she'll shocked soldier" 1968 - trauma, retreats, idealised landscapes
Vietnam - reffered to the war in colour
Documentary exhaustion Clarke 1997;163
William niedich 1989 - documentary constructed, attempt to re-write American history, sydjugation of American Indians, 9 th cent processes
Edward Curtis native north Americans (early 20th century)
Rodger Korangi, Nuba tribesmen, 1940
Bruno barbey - left wing riot protesting 1972, aesthetic over social impact
Jeremy deller "the battle of orgreave" 2001
Deller is both reserving the memory of political struggles which no longer have force in the culture - Nash 2006
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