The photograph as document

The photograph as document

The lecture will look at :

• A short history of documentary photography
• Images of the working class/poverty
• Reporting and war
• photographing other cultures
• the concept of the desire moment
• the constructed document then and now.

William edward Kilburn ' The great chartist meeting at the common' 1848 - recording a special event. 

'How the other half live' Jacob Riis 1890

• 'Bandits Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street' 1888
• Jacob A. Riis - A growler gang in session (Robbing a lush) 1887
• Lewis Hine - Russian steel workers homestead pa. 1908

F.S.A (Farm Security Administration)

• Margeret bourke-white
• 'sharecroppers home' 1937 - temporary structure , the shack is constructed and lined with newspaper cuttings. Making it very creative it tells us what to think. the newspapers represent the american dream.
• Russel Lee - Interior of a black Farmers House' 1939
• Dorothea Lange ' Migrant Mother' 1936 - the gathering of the images becomes more important than the womens history.

Bill Brandt  ' Northumberland Miner at his Evening Meal' 1937 - making significant of all the objects n the image are symbolic.

Henri Cartier Bresson FRANCE 1932 - Paris De l'Europe. Gare Saint Lazare.

Documentary and War

• Robert Capa 'The Falling Soldier' 1936
• Robert Frank 'parade - Hoboken. New Jersey' 1958
• Hung Cong tu. attack 1972 ' Accidental Napalm'

Robert Haebearle - ' People about to be shot' 1969 he shoots first

Don McCullin' Shell Shocked Soldier' 1968

To speak of documentary photography at this point in its history is to run headlong i to a morass of contradiction confusion and ambiguity a position made more problematic.

Documentary Constructed - William Niedich (1989)

Edward Curtis Native North Americans (early 20th Century)

Rodger Koronago Nuba Tribesmen, Victoria of a wrestling men 1940

Bruno Barbey ' Left wing Riot protesting the building of the new narito airport;. 1972

Jeremy Deller ' The battle of orgreave' 2001