Engaged Observers
Documentary Photography Since the Sixties
Brett Abbott(Author)
J. Paul Getty Museum (Publisher)
Published on 13. July 2010
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-60606-022-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is a superbly illustrated survey of photographers at the forefront of the development of independent, critically engaged photojournalism. In the decades following WWII, 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" offers a critical survey of the work of nine photographers at the forefront of the documentary approach - 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Santa Monica CA
United States
Publishing group
Getty Trust Publications
Illustrations
70 colour & 175 duotone illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60606-022-3 (9781606060223)
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Person
Brett Abbott is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.