Photographers who record real people, places and events as evidence, from the social documentary tradition of the Great Depression to photojournalism and later work on labor and migration. A photographer belongs here when the cited article calls the person a documentary photographer or names documentary as the movement. It excludes street photographers and the Surrealist photographers, who have their own groups. Some began as press or government photographers and became known for single images that stood for a whole period, so a photographer is placed here by the description the cited article gives, not by the subject of one picture.
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Wikipedia: Walker Evans
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Walker Evans (November 3, 1903, April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), for whom he documented the effects of the Great Depression.
Dorothea Lange - Wikipedia
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Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895, October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
Gordon Parks - Wikipedia
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912, March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s-particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans-and in glamour photography.
Wikipedia: August Sander
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August Sander (17 November 1876-20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer.
Wikipedia: Margaret Bourke-White
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Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904, August 27, 1971) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Wikipedia: Eugène Atget
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Eugène Atget (French: [adʒɛ]; 12 February 1857-4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, determined to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization.
Sebastião Salgado (Wikipedia)
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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (8 February 1944-23 May 2025) was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Lewis Hine (Wikipedia)
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Documentary; social realism
Wikipedia: Malick Sidibe
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He specialized in documentary photography, focusing particularly on the youth culture of the Malian capital.
The Art Story (theartstory.org): The Art Story: Robert Frank
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Movements and Styles: Documentary Photography , Street Photography , Straight Photography
The Art Story (theartstory.org): The Art Story: Eadweard Muybridge
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Movements and Styles: Documentary Photography
The Art Story (theartstory.org): The Art Story: Paul Strand
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Movements and Styles: Modern Photography , Straight Photography , Documentary Photography
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