ABSTRACT
C H A P T E R 2 Surveyors and surveyed Photography out and about
D E R R I C K P R I C E
77 Introduction
79 Documentary and photojournalism: issues and definitions Documentary photography Photojournalism Photography and war Documentary and authenticity Defining the real in the digital age
96 Surveys and social facts Victorian surveys and investigations Photographing workers Photography and colonialism
106 The construction of documentary Picturing ourselves The Farm Security Administration (FSA) Discussion: Drum
117 Documentary: new cultures, new spaces Photography on the streets Theory and the critique of documentary Cultural politics and everyday life The real world in colour Documentary and photojournalism in the
global age
INTRODUCTION
Within a decade or two of its invention, photography was used to chronicle wars, to survey remote regions of the world and to make scientific observations. Life on the streets of great cities was recorded, but so were the monuments of Egypt and Syria, the vast ranges of the Himalayas, the USA railroad as it moved West, the fishing village of Whitby and the architecture of Paris. Pornographic images were soon in circulation, as were charity shots of the poor and homeless. Montage techniques were used to produce pictures of fairies, ghosts and elves. Less sensationally, the dead were recorded as they lay in their coffins (photography was hailed as an excellent substitute for the death mask), while all the living seemed appropriate subjects for the camera’s gaze.
