around the world ... this is the function of the vector that the documentary
photographer must have, to show one person’s existence to another. ... The
most interesting function of this kind of photography is exactly this: to show
and to provoke debate and to see how we can go ahead with our lives. The
photographer must participate in this debate.”
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Activist documentary photography is most essentially the thing
itself, as defined by John Szarkowski in the introduction to the catalog of
the exhibition The Photographer’s Eye. “The first thing the photographer
learned was that photography dealt with the actual; he had to not only
accept this fact, but ...
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