Sunday, October 27, 2013

Photojournalism, Documentary, and the "Personal Documentary"

This week, we looked briefly at photographers working with photography as journalism, documentary, and what we called "personal documentary." Here are sample images and links for the photographers that we discussed, and for a few that we ran out of time to look at.




W. Eugene Smith (from "Country Doctor" in Life Magazine)







What do you think? Is there a dividing line between journalism and documentary, between the public and the personal, or are they different shades of the same thing?



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