- Document with the aim to change the world
- use camera to change the world
- Document to relay to others
- a photo is not necessarily neutral
- offer a humanitarian perspective
- portray social and political situations
- people tend to form the subject matter
James Natchway - Conflict photographer
- idea of showing people how the other side of the world live
The photographer and the subject always have to compromise the photo as both have their own idea of what they want in the photo.
FSA Photographers
- Paid by the american government to document the depression
- they were instructed what to take
- not neutral photos
John Lampray
- used staged photography to show inferiority of blacks
- photography used as power
Robert Capa (conflict photographer)
- shocking and horrifying images
Magnum (international Group)
- documents social problems
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