...Frank A. O. Ugiomoh Documentary photography, in a very fundamental sense, locates the self and the other in determinate historical relationships. In these relationships documentary photographs usually capture what organized establishments like governments would rather have ignored. Documentary...

...) both draws on and critiques conventions of documentary photography. Containing appropriated archival photographs, her works are often interpreted as the artist subverting visual stereotypes of black people in order to commemorate their lives and experiences. The author explores the formal strategies...

... three generations, have used both social documentary and fine-art photography approaches to make statements about the different dimensions of the colonial and postcolonial condition. Among those included at SB15, Omar Badsha (South Africa) stands out due to his work that has consistently integrated both...

... century. For many, the photograph has served as a vital means through which to reaffirm and concretize ideas about Black agency, subjectivity, and autonomy. Frazier has remarked often about her indebtedness to and departures from the tradition of social documentary photography, in particular. She has...

.... MC: I’m so struck that Robert Sengstacke, recently—when he was asked about the relation between documentary photography and more “artistic” photography—he insisted...

... genres as landscape, documentary, or the modern period. Second, it foregrounded the fashion photography. As the show's curator, pathological relationship between Africa and the Okwui Enwezor, suggests, the works of this mythmaking capabilities of photography. Third, it younger...

..., film, or documentary photography. Art at Cornell University. Deborah Willis is profes- “Having a portrait taken by [the well-known Malian sor and chair of the Department of Photography and photographer] Seydou Keita . . . signified that the Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School...

... and bolstered by a tradition of documentary photography for which that country s image makers had attained global distinction during the apartheid era turned his camera to a rather complicated, tough subject and in the process engaged in a critical meditation on the Rainbow Nation s carceral system. To make...

... history of artistic convention and transcultural exchange, drawing on references ranging from seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting to contemporary art. In Mthethwa’s photographs an intense pictorial visuality serves as a starting point for both documentary portraiture and critical inquiry...

... to counterbalance what I per- sion, such as photography, theater, cinema, documentary, ceived as a Eurocentric attitude in the arts and a tendency, and music. I think it’s generally true that when you want especially with television broadcasters, to be nationalistic to discover something new and explore...

... wife, Lélia, which add tremendous clarity to Salgado’s worldview. Highly recommended for fans of Salgado’s work and for those interested in photojournalism, documentary photography...

...-segregated beach, landscape still meet in the most blatant and glaring surrounded by these mountains and washed by the ways. Often featured in documentary photography Indian Ocean, visual and conceptual links are made during the “struggle” years, signs in situ (whether between boyhood agility...

... Cape. startlingly traditional in his practice as an artist in ly it is being done. My point here is that, consid• the photographic medium. Typically, he takes a ered as an artist—and unusually in the fine-art documentary subject—life in a prison, the vari• photography context...

... truth, its indexical quali- ties, is relentlessly examined in her compositions. Deborah Willis explains that images of the black subject, whether artistic, documentary, or anthropo- logical, are forever fixed in the popular imagination through photography. 4 The brutal mid-nineteenth- century...

... with the legendary photography curator that will go unnamed in viewer through the photographs. It’s quite satisfying this conversation who stated before a packed audience when the work strikes the viewer through the denial of that Roy DeCarava was a documentary photographer...

... in photojournalism, documentary photography, and global humanitarian issues.” —library journal The Camera as Historian Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918 elizabeth edwards O b j e c t s...

... the fantasies of the sitters than documents This lengthy quotation confirms that Mthethwa of a certain kind of life."11 Mthethwa responds believes that it is principally color that distin• that he does not consider himself a documentary guishes his work from the documentary projects...

... Gordon's presence, that achieve• ment would still be a challenge and not an historic accomplishment. The following excerpt comes from one of the many interviews with Gordon for the documentary Half-Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks...

... of postcolonial studio photography, what can be agreed is that the agency of the por• traitist is inescapably found in each and every portrait.-1 Susan Vogel, in her film Malick Sidibe: Portrait of the Artist as a Portraitist becomes implicated as par• ticipant by simply titling the wonderful...

... of photography and thus the meaning of a photograph is its reference to the photographed object. In the case of the self- portrait...