Documentary photography
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Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life
Migrant Mother (1936) by Dorothea Lange, during the Great Depression
John Beasly Greene's photo of the Abu Simbel temples, 1854
Bandit's Roost (1914) by Jacob Riis
Power house mechanic working on steam pump (1920) by Lewis Hine
Dorothea Lange
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Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Lange's photographs influenced the development
Documentary photography
…Administration, a common term for the Historical Division, supervised by Roy Stryker, funded legendary photographic documentarians, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott among others. This generation of documentary photographers is generally credited for codifying the…
Lange in 1936
Lange in 1936 holding a Graflex 4×5 camera atop a Ford Model 40 in California, photographed by her assistant Rondal Partridge
"Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" (1937)