Photography Lecture: Documentary 2

Documentary 2

“One of the favoured words in the photographic literature of today is ‘documentary’”

(Edward Steichen 1938)

Dorothea Lange‘Migrant Mother’. 1936

Walker Evans‘Kitchen Wall, Alabama’, 1936

Walker Evans‘Allie Mae Burroughs’, 1936.

Walker Evans‘Washing and Dining Area of Burroughs's Home’,1936

Walker Evans‘Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1935

Paintings by Edward Hopper

Henri Cartier Bresson

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AtnhCnQzXak

Robert Frank‘Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey’, 1958.

Robert Frank ‘U.S. 285, New Mexico’, 1956

Robert Frank‘Rodeo, New York City’, 1955

Robert Frank‘Route 66’, 1957

Robert Frank1957

‘Galax, Virginia’, 1962.

Lee Friedlander

Sweet Emma Barrett, 1958

Lee Friedlander‘Washington D.C.’, 1962

Lee Friedlander‘Nashville’, 1963

Lee Friedlander‘New York’, 1968

Lee Friedlander‘Route 9W, New York’, 1969

Garry Winogrand

‘Untitled’, 1963 ‘Albuquerque, New Mexico’, 1958

“I don’t have anything to say in any picture.. I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.”

Garry WinograndImages from ‘Women are beautiful’,1975

Diane Arbus‘Blaze Starr at home’, 1964

Contact Sheet of

‘Child with a Toy Hand Grenade

in Central Park’ by Diane Arbus