Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)

Description: Amazon.com Review Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist whose series of books on children won him a Pulitzer Prize, has turned his watchful eye to the nature of the documentary and produced a thought-provoking book. In somewhat the manner of James Faris's recent study, Navajo and Photography, Coles reveals how documentarians like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans edited and cropped their images to produce a desired effect, and raises the question of authenticity versus manipulation. Lange, the subject of a previous biographical study by Coles, comes under close scrutiny as he contrasts her iconic image of a migrant mother with obscur ... (more)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 19 November 1998
ISBN-10 : 0195124952 | ISBN-13: 9780195124958

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