Documentary photographers from 1970 to present day
Documentary photography is a type of photography that antails the photographer recording historical or important and informative events. But on occasion for photographs to be considered to be in the documentary style they just had to depict real life.
The profession this type of photography would usually lead you too is photojournalism on an amatur or professional basis.
Documentary usually must be candid as this portrays the truth opposed to a staged scene, and the truth is the main objective or documentary photography.
Chris Killip
Chris Killip was born on the Isle of man in 1946 and decided to pursue photography full time at the age of 18 2 years after he had previously left full time education. He became a beach photographer to earn enough money to eventually leave the Isle of Man, but these beach shots he had taken and some that were yet to be taken were to become now in the 21st century very famous and iconic in their own right. But it wasn't just his beach shots that were the best documentary photography he had created there was others in various different scenarios.
Below i will show examples of his work:
(source of images:)- http://www.bankholidaycomes.com/2013/07/chris-killip/
Martin Parr
Martin parr has been interested in photography for as long as he can remember. Ever since his grandfather would lend him his camera and help him develop and and print images, as Martins grandfather was an amature photographer himself.
Since then Martin became an avid photographer himself taking shoots all over, this lead him to become a member of the famous Magnum photography books.
Now at the age of 61 Martin is still producing work for his own personal use and also for gallerys and companies.
Examples of his work is shown below:
(source of images:)- https://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL5357TF
Present day documentary photographer
Eve Edelheit
Eve is an American photographer who was born in 1988. She has gone into the profession of photojournalism and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The company she works for is the Tampa Bay Time.
On her website (http://eveedelheit.com/) she includes a lot of her work. There is a sub heading that states 'stories' and within that are 3 categories and i have chosen work from two of those to represent her documentary style.
The categories is 'more than a game'. The photos show an American football team during a match before and after and also celebrating too. below are a two images i have chosen.
The second category is entitled 'Red, White and Blue'. This category contains images that were taken around the time of the 2008 election when it was neck and neck between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. It shows the overwhelming support for both parties from everyday people.
Below i have included some images i have chosen.
Through looking at documentary photographers from the late 20th century and from present day i can see the main objective and goals are the same but the differences are the things they are photographing are quite different.
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