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I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
-W. Eugene Smith
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When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. it should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. you see, art is really useless, and a document has use. and therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. i do it. i'm called a documentary photographer. but that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. there can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. there are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. you don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.
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When you're making a real documentary, you shoot it and the movie happens. you don't make - this sounds corny - you don't make a documentary, a documentary makes you. it really does.
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There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, i mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. and that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. they're not written, not rehearsed. it's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. people
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Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... as the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. we expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)
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