Contemporary documentary photography in the Americas
It is a commonplace, but one worth restating, that the nature of the relationship between photography and the real world has a specificity arising from the way in which the image is produced. From an early date, this specificity conferred on photography its role as a tool for the discovery and know...
Enregistré dans:
| Udgivet i: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas, |
|---|---|
| Auteurs principaux: | , |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
| Udgivet: |
IdeAs
2019
|
| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | It is a commonplace, but one worth restating, that the nature of the relationship between photography and the real world has a specificity arising from the way in which the image is produced. From an early date, this specificity conferred on photography its role as a tool for the discovery and knowledge of the real world. What came little by little to be known as “documentary photography” (it is generally agreed that the term arose at some point in the 1920s) is rooted in the mode particular... |
|---|