The Nineteenth Century
http://photographyincontext.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/documentary-and-storytelling-summary.html
The word documentary basically means story telling saying something as it is.
The increasing popularity in documentary photography was due to the mass amount of press after WW2.
Photographers then became a key way in everyday life of illustrating a story through this media format, educating in a creative manor as well as recording and documenting were the main goals of documentary photography.
'Humanity in war'
'The american civil war 1861- 1865'
The photo depicted here is only one of many that are shown in the book 'Humanity In War'. All of the images are meant to illustrate the history of all armed conflict from the mid 19th century to present day.
The moment the world really started documenting what really happened on the front line, in all these wars and conflicts was the moment the public (that were not necessarily there to whiteness it first hand) could really truly see the horror of what really goes on.
Civil war photographer
by Mathew Bardy
Mathew was one of the most famous 19th century civil war photographers. Despite this is it believed that a large number of the photographs he is famous for were not actually taken by him, but were actually taken by employees of his.
Mathew took photos of scenes at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania following an epic battle in early July 1863.
Although Mathew is considered as one of the greats of his time (mainly for war, documentary photography). He was not actually specialized in that field of photography he was actually a portrait photographer, taking many portrait or people and also himself.
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The pictures Mathew created of the war truly capture the suffering and the rawness of what war was really about.
Without these we might not have such an accurate idea of what war was like in the 19th century.
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