For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate. Votes: 3
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. Votes: 2
I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography. Votes: 2
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928) Votes: 2
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world. Votes: 2
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx. Votes: 2
Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs. Votes: 2
Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks. Votes: 2
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. Votes: 0
America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. Votes: 0
'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. Votes: 0
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. Votes: 0
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character. Votes: 0
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnât 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.
Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. Votes: 3 Bruce Jackson
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Votes: 5 Dorothea Lange