Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
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Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist whose series of books on children won him a Pulitzer Prize, has turned his watchful eye to the nature of the documentary and produced a thought-provoking book. In somewhat the manner of James Faris's recent study, Navajo and Photography, Coles reveals how documentarians like Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans edited and cropped their images to produce a desired effect, and raises the question of authenticity versus manipulation. Lange, the subject of a previous biographical study by Coles, comes under close scrutiny as he contrasts her iconic image of a migrant mother with obscure photographs shot moments earlier. The author also recalls James Agee's self-critical appraisal of his and Evans's "insensitivity" and "arrogance" in pursuing an editorial assignment.
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The New York Times Book Review, Jay Cantor
This handbook for those who would attempt to salvage the actual originally grew out of lectures given as part of a series at the New York Public Libary. Though they don't read like occasional pieces, still the whole doesn't make a sustained, long meditated argument either. It's more of a painful turning about, a set of warnings and cautionary tales that one might make about and for documentation.
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Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)
Doing Documentary Work (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities),Robert Coles,Oxford University Press, USA,0195124952,Anthropology - General,Cinema/Film: Book,Composition & Creative Writing - Nonfiction,Film & Video - Direction & Production,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Performing Arts,Photography,Photojournalism,Communication | Film & Television Studies,Media studies,Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism,Social research & statistics
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