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An estimated 30,000 people, including storyteller Mike Mann above, turned out for the Hiawatha Light Rail opening in Minneapolis, Minn.; United States, on June 26, 2004.

Documentary photography usually refers to a type of professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur or student pursuit. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people. The Pictures usually depict a certain perspective of the Photographer. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 594 pixelsFull resolution (1341 × 995 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 594 pixelsFull resolution (1341 × 995 pixel, file size: 1. ... For the Amtrak (and historically Milwaukee Road) interstate train route of the same name, see Hiawatha (passenger train). ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ... A professional can be either a person in a profession (certain types of skilled work requiring formal training / education) or in sports (a sportsman / sportwoman doing sports for payment). ... Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. ... Look up amateur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Candid photography is snapshot photography that focuses on spontaneity rather than technique, on perfecting the immersion of a camera within events rather than focusing on setting up a staged situation, focusing on lengthy camera setup, or focusing on particularly strong lenses. ...

Usually such photographs are meant for publication, but are sometimes only for exhibition in an art gallery or other public forum. Sometimes an organization or company will commission documentary photography of its activities, but the pictures will only be for its private archives.

Press photographers

Photojournalists who adhere to generally accepted ethical practices such as those proposed by organizations like the National Press Photographers Association generally strive to make documentary photos instead of posed photos because of the innate power of the candid, unguarded moment in depicting genuine news events. The challenge for that type of photographer is to make pictures of sensitive scenes and moments without changing them by the presence of a camera. You might do this in school.

Posing people for an accurate record

If the aim is simply to document something - costume for instance - then sometimes posing people is the best way to make the required clear documentary picture. For instance, the posed "straight up" style of picture pioneered by iD magazine - these were of punks and New Wave youth found on English streets and simply asked to stand against any nearby blank wall. The resulting pictures - the subjects facing the camera and seen from "top to toe" - are a vivid historical documentary photography archive, and have established the posed "straight up" as a valid style of documentary picture-making. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... i-D is an influential British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ...

Amateur photographers

Sometimes amateurs unintentionally make documentary pictures that are later found to be of great historical value, since they are good images of subjects that have since disappeared forever and which no-one else bothered to record. The work of Jacques Henri Lartigue would be one notable example. Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter. ...

Well-known documentary photographers

U.S. documentary photographers

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hine
• Sarah Connell
• paul haycraft
• Berenice Abbott
• Walker Evans
• Dorothea Lange
• Mary Ellen Mark
• W. Eugene Smith

European documentary photographers Jacob Riis in 1906 Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914), a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer, was born in Ribe, Denmark. ... Power house mechanic working on steam pump, 1920 Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940), was an American photographer. ... Berenice Abbott [1] (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of the streetlife and architecture of New York City during the 1930s. ... Walker Evans Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer made famous by his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. ... Dorothea Lange in 1936; photographer: Paul S. Taylor Langes Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson Langes photo of the Japanese Relocation Dorothea Lange (May 25, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration... Mary Ellen Mark portrait of Marlon Brando Mary Ellen Mark (born March 20th in Philadelphia 1940) is an American photographer, known for her arresting images, the content of which is mainly between social photojournalism and portraiture. ... Cover of W. Eugene Smiths William Eugene Smith (1918-1978) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs. ...

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For more notable photographers, see: List of photographers. This is a list of notable photographers who already have articles. ...

References

"A New History of Photography" Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft/Michel Frizot 1998

"DOWN THE LINE; LIGHT RAIL'S FIRST DAY; Getting off on the right track;" Star Tribune, June 27, 2004.