ART 11380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paparazzi, Sports Photography, Telephoto Lens
Document Summary
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph per se. It is a photograph which carries the full meaning of the event: photographs capture one moment in time. It may be tempting to think of photographs as static, still moments, but the reality is that the world moves around us constantly. The wind blows, birds fly, people walk past us, and animals run to catch their next meal. While photographs only capture a moment, leaving movement and action out of our photographs leaves out a great portion of our world. In this unit, we will consider action and documentary photographs, those photographs that capture moving subjects with that one moment in time: documentary photographs are created to produce a historical record of an event, place, or person. The purpose of the photographs is not to produce artistic work, although some are incredibly moving and fascinating photographs.
