Photography - Documentary



Photography - Documentary. When is a photographic image real? Is photography able to represent reality and to depict it in an authentic way? Thomas Weski: "At the moment, photography is in a phase of change in which an altered conception of the documentary factor is emerging. It is not so much a matter of the portrayal or representation of reality, but rather of an artistically well-grounded idea of the world."

Photography - Documentary artists:

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Tina Barney
Laurenz Berges
Dirk Braeckman
David Claerbout
Luc Delahaye
Rineke Dijkstra
Walker Evans
Patrick Faigenbaum
Stephen Gill
Paul Graham
Scott McFarland
Hans van der Meer
Martin Parr
Judith Joy Ross
Thomas Ruff
Paul Shambroom
Taryn Simon
Alec Soth
Heidi Specker
Jules Spinatsch
Thomas Struth
Larry Sultan
Juergen Teller
Wolfgang Tillmans
Jeff Wall





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