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Introducing documentary lesson
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2. On the post it notes write down what you think
documentary photography is
• What are the key skills that it uses?
• Name as many photographers you know of that
you think fit into this genre
• When you’re done, stick it onto the end of your
table
3. • Explain what documentary photography is and
what makes a good documentary project
• You will identify the various types of sub
genres
• You will identify the types of images used to
create a narrative
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5. • What is it?
Documentary Photography is a narrative or
story being told through photographs that
involves real events to provide a factual
record or report (and sometimes this is
complimented with text).
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7. Sub Genres Task
• On your table is a series of photographs.
• Around the room is different headings for sub genre’s.
• In your groups use the blu tack provided to put one
image into each category
• In your groups select an image to discuss looking at the
technical, lighting, compositional and contextual
information behind the image.
8. Key Points
• ‘Document’ means evidence = official, to be
trusted, not to be questioned…
• Documentary as signifier of truth but what of
re-presentation??
• Documentary is intimate – it assumes a bond
between viewer and image and it is charged
with showing the world as it really is
9. Documentary photography has always had the power to shock,
to inform, to change opinion and to persuade yet the very term
can be ambiguous and the photographer always chooses a
particular frame and moment in time
12. Henri Cartier-Bresson like
Doisneau is seen as a father
of photojournalism and also
street photography. His style
is often decisive and always
candid
13. Martin Parr: Part of the British new wave
whose focus was on the everyday from a
critical perspective
14. Simon Norfolk’s work crosses the line between fine
art and photo journalism, often shooting locations
that are war torn or where atrocities were commited
30. What makes a Good documentary
project?
2 minutes task:
• Think – individually of one thing you think
makes a good documentary project
• Pair - up with person next to you and list
more ideas.
• Share – with the rest of the group.
Countdown clock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MytO0O_q0
32. TYPES OF IMAGES
• narratives :
– a story or an account of a sequence of events in the order
in which they happened.
– the art or process of telling a story or giving an account of
something.
Compositionally you can use the following types of shots to
create a story:
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Establishing
Detailed,
Main and
Concluding shots.
45. Back to Learning Objective
• Explain what documentary photography is.
• List the different types of sub genre’s of
documentary photography
• You will identify the various types of sub genres
• You will identify the types of images used to
create a narrative
46. • On your new post it note write down the following:
• What is documentary and what makes a good
documentary project?
• List the various sub genres
• Identify the types of images used to create a narrative
• Any photographers you could name
• Once complete - stick it next to your original post it
note onto the wall
47. Practical Task – Birmingham Trip
You have to document a short story, your narrative, on
Birmingham using one of the following styles of documentary:
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Portraits of people at work
Street photography
Street portraits
Documentary landscape
RESEARCH a photographer that shoots in one of these styles
of documentary photography for your artist comparison.
Notes de l'éditeur
We now see these types of images as leading to negative stereotypesInterestingly Nanook was proved to be a fake
She photographed three women, one hour (Julie), one day (Tecla) and one week (Saskia) after giving birth. During a visit to Portugal in 1994, she made portraits of four bullfighters immediately after the fight.
