Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >> I suppose that when documentary photography was melded into > the fine art > >> school of thought, such an excretion from a staff keyboard ponder like > >> Gopnik isn't too surprising. > > > > Been a long time coming - didn't that happen around the 1930's? > (or was it > > earlier?) > I think that at one time it was considered advocacy photography, which has > once again come back full circle to that definition. Recently, > publications > like Doubletake and Aperture have added a sort of formalism to > the approach. > The demands of a new photographic consumer, the investor, pushed for new > definitions of the work on hand. Definitions that I think would > often be at > odds with past usages that the photographer's used themselves. > Slobodan Dimitrov But people like Evans didn't consider themselves to be documentary photographers, rather photographers (artists?) who used a certain "style" to make their point, express their vision, tell what it was they wanted to tell. The same could to some extent be said of Atget (although much more of an enigma). tim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html