Engaged observers : documentary photography since the sixties / Brett Abbott.

9781606060223
1606060228

Los Angeles, CA : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2010.

English

viii, 236 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

TR820.5 .A25 2010

779

Overview: In the decades following World War II, an independently minded, critically engaged form of photojournalism began to flourish. It was not destined for the morning papers or exclusively for newsmagazines, and it did not attempt to be neutral. This kind of photojournalism was self-assigned. It declared its independence from the mainstream media's editorial control, and it was disseminated to the public through books, exhibitions, articles, and, more recently, the Web. Engaged Observers focuses on nine photographers who have participated in the development of this documentary approach. Surveyed are Leonard Freed (Black in White America), Philip Jones Griffiths (Vietnam Inc.), W. Eugene Smith (Minamata), Susan Meiselas (Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979), Mary Ellen Mark (Streetwise), Larry Towell (The Mennonites), Sebastiao Salgado (Migrations), Lauren Greenfield (Girl Culture), and James Nachtwey ("The Sacrifice"). Each section opens with an introductory essay that sets the work in its evolving historical context.

""This volume is published on the occasion of the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 29-November 14, 2010"--T.p. verso."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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