Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - What is documentary photography?

What is documentary photography?

Photography that records social life, etc. Different from simple documentary photography, it strongly attracts people's personal reporting nature.

Documentary photography shows the photographer's concern for the environment, respect for life, and pursuit of humanity ... Documentary photographers use cold machines to record marginal scenes or facts that are intentionally or unintentionally "ignored", but they can often use the power of images to make photography a tool to participate in social transformation. Judging from the social background and historical absence of documentary photography, its criticism and revolution are self-evident. By-product documentary photography history is the history of injustice, darkness, turbulence and austerity in the world that photographers record, express and spread. They use images to achieve the purpose of propaganda and agitation, and then promote social change and make the world a better place.

This book introduces the contributions of famous contemporary documentary photographers in a simple way, including their experiences, creative ideas, ways of participating in social activities and their pursuit of human nature, which provides us with three-dimensional and panoramic documentary photography information.