Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
Interpretation
Documentary photography captures all aspects of life, and a good photograph serves as a valuable record of its subject.
Berenice Abbott emphasizes that documentary photography is an inclusive medium, capable of representing the full spectrum of human experience, whether positive, negative, or neutral. She suggests that a well-crafted photograph transcends mere imagery to become a significant document, reflecting the realities of its subject matter with authenticity and depth.
In practice
In a photography exhibition showcasing social issues, this quote could be used to emphasize the power of documentary images.
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
Photography helps people to see.
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
Photographs donβt lie, but liars may photograph
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.
There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.
I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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