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    This document discusses the history of photography and questions related to documentary and conceptual photography. It explores how documentary photographers' interests have changed over time and what viewers should question when looking at documentary photos. It questions whether photos that document physical places are different from those intended to provoke social change. It also examines why conceptual art and photography became popular in the late 20th century and whether artists who document ephemeral events can be considered photographers.

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    This document discusses the history of photography and questions related to documentary and conceptual photography. It explores how documentary photographers' interests have changed over time and what viewers should question when looking at documentary photos. It questions whether photos that document physical places are different from those intended to provoke social change. It also examines why conceptual art and photography became popular in the late 20th century and whether artists who document ephemeral events can be considered photographers.

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    This document discusses the history of photography and questions related to documentary and conceptual photography. It explores how documentary photographers' interests have changed over time and what viewers should question when looking at documentary photos. It questions whether photos that document physical places are different from those intended to provoke social change. It also examines why conceptual art and photography became popular in the late 20th century and whether artists who document ephemeral events can be considered photographers.

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    This document discusses the history of photography and questions related to documentary and conceptual photography. It explores how documentary photographers' interests have changed over time and what viewers should question when looking at documentary photos. It questions whether photos that document physical places are different from those intended to provoke social change. It also examines why conceptual art and photography became popular in the late 20th century and whether artists who document ephemeral events can be considered photographers.

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    History of Photography

    Photograph as Document / Concept as Photograph

    Points for Consideration


    1) What things did documentary photographers consider worthy of documenting? Did
    their interests change over time? If so, how and why?
    2) What sorts of things should a viewer question when looking at a documentary
    photograph? Are these things different from what should be considered when looking
    at other types of photographs? If so, how?
    3) Are photographs that document the physical appearance of a place different from
    photographs that are intended to provoke social change? If so, how? If not, what is the
    common element between them?
    4) Why do you think conceptual art in general and conceptual photography in particular
    has become so popular in the late 20th and early 21st century?
    5) Some contemporary artists use the camera or other photographic means to record
    ephemeral or durational events, to document art created outside the gallery
    environment, and to examine ways in which we use photography. Do you consider
    these artists to be photographers? Why or why not?
    6) Is a conceptual photograph that is a document of an art event (as described above in
    question #5) a documentary photograph? Why or why not?

    Terms and Names


    Eugene Atget

    O. Winston Link

    John Pfahl

    Jacob Riis

    Steve McCurry

    Andy Goldsworthy

    Lewis Hine

    Nicholas Nixon

    Gregory Crewdson

    Dorothea Lange

    Eileen Cowin

    ParkeHarrison

    Walker Evans

    Eleanor Antin

    Laurie Simmons

    Arthur Rothstein

    Oliver Herring

    Sandy Skoglund

    Edward Curtis

    Anne Hamilton

    Tokohiro Sato

    E. J. Bellocq

    Roni Horn

    Abelardo Morell

    August Sander

    Janine Antoni

    Brian Ulrich

    Mike Disfarmer

    Ken Josephson

    Jason Salavon

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