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Doing Documentary Work

Robert Coles
In this thought-provoking volume, renowned child psychiatrist Robert Coles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Children of Crisis series, offers a penetrating look into the nature of documentary work. Exploring the documentaries of writers, photographers, and filmmakers, Coles shows how their prose and pictures are influenced by the observer's frame of reference: their social and educational background, personal values, and political beliefs. He discusses the literary documentaries of James Agee and George Orwell and documentary photographs by Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans; and also illuminates his points through personal portraits of William Carlos Williams, Robert Moses, Erik H. Erikson, and others. Documentary work, Coles concludes, is more a narrative constructed by the observer, meant not only to represent "reality" but inevitably to interpret it.
Autor: Coles, Robert
EAN: 9780195124958
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 288
Produktart: kartoniert, broschiert
Verlag: New York Public Library
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 19.11.1998
Schlagworte: Photography
Größe: 14 × 135 × 202
Gewicht: 249 g