MPS 301 Lecture Notes - Documentary Photography, Straight Photography, Romanticism
Document Summary
Over a million farms make under . Rich farm land no longer farm able due as example of recession. Started straight photography and first documentary photo. Later roosevelt makes legislation to help smaller farmers. Talks about documentary photography conveying information and emotion. Feels obliged to bring home more than a cold record . Combination of more than the information but, also the sensory. Concerned with the everyday and converts photographers into historians. Photos must be true and unbiased and display the fact in neither a negative or positive bias. Truth can be simulated if your heart is in the right place. Photography conveying facts and serving need is difficult area (information or propaganda) Displays problems that farmers and families are facing. Talks to friend and the friend of local desent , friend engages person while he takes pictures. Knows what he is looking for and creates real situation (fabricated reality?) Boy is juxtaposed to create human element.
