Documentary Photography

To me, photography is

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To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt

While there is perhaps

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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange

Photography takes an instant

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange

The dismal half-baked images

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The dismal half-baked images of the average “reportage” and “documentary” photography are self dammning… the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake – I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith’s work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is … Read more

To me documentary photography

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To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Aaron Siskind