Accuracy in documentary photography, and the reading of photojournalism.
A lot of the research I am doing at the moment is discussing what makes documentary work accurate, and how to create more accuracy. At the same time, I am looking at photojournalism, and highlighting distinct differences between the practitioners of documentary photography and photojournalism, and how it all fits into an art world.
I think four key areas are:
- Practioners similar to Lewis Hine, who make photographs to collate evidence for social change.
- Practitioners similar to Susan Meiseleas and Thomas Sauvin, who aim to take themselves out of work and disregard artistic decisions to create accurate representations and true documents.
- Artists such as Walker Evans and Alec Soth, who create imagery in a documentary/journalistic style for art purpose.
- Photojournalists who create images which are emotionally charged, but become documents due to a variety of factors around their context.
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