ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the term documentary and, within such practice, looked at the categories observational, didactic and polemic: photographs that aim to provide a transparent image of events. In any photograph of the human subject, the author's find that subject displays expressions and that their style of clothing carries a message, as does the location of the photograph, all of which may indicate a particular social role and aspects of character. The photograph can supply visual evidence of some thing or an event that has occurred before the camera. The photograph needs to arouse interest both in its factual content and visual appeal. There are some individuals who are able to combine skill of both photographer and writer to provide the photograph, and text to go with it, as a complete feature. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term document suggests an artefact that has educational value or has value as evidence: intended primarily for instruction or record purposes.
