Contemporary documentary photography in the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4554868 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marion Gautreau (0000-0002-7603-6769, Mexican Geological Survey, corresponding author), Jean Kempf (0000-0001-6391-6516, Bell (Canada)) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 13 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IdeAs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1950-5701 • E-ISSN: 1950-5701 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ideas.5542 |
| OpenAlex | W2946823446 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
It is a commonplace, but one worth restating, that the nature of the relationship between photography and the real world has a specificity arising from the way in which the image is produced. From an early date, this specificity conferred on photography its role as a tool for the discovery and knowledge of the real world. What came little by little to be known as “documentary photography” (it is generally agreed that the term arose at some point in the 1920s) is rooted in the mode particular
Art · Photography · Visual arts · History · Photographic and Visual Arts · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |