Even though straight and documentary photographers don't manipulate photographic print and don't use artistic effects (soft focus, for example) for historical or sociological purposes rather than aesthetic ones, we can't deny they produce some great works of art! As I've mentioned before in this blog, straight photography -and thus, documentary photography- always involves aesthetic decisions (what angle to use, what are you going to portray, the light you're going to use, the position of the people and objects on the photography, etc.), and the result is not less beautiful or more artificial than a Pictorialist photograph, for example. I prefer to describe this kind of photographs as a work of art with an historical or sociological plus that shows us some of the aspects of society that sometimes we all know, and other times we're missing.
I specially enjoyed Jacob Riis's, Lewis Hine's, Walker Evan's, Dorothea Langue's and Jack Delano's photographs.
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| Jacob Riis's 'A Black-and-Tan Dive in Africa' |
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| Lewis Hine's 'Slavic Inmigrant' |
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| Lewis Hine's from 'The Empire State Building series' |
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| Walker Evan's 'Parked Car' |
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| Jack Delano's 'Midnight Special' |
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Dorothea Langue's 'Migrant Woman',
a really famous one.
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