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A01=Stuart Franklin
Author_Stuart Franklin
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-AB
Category=NL-AJ
Category=NL-JF
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
HMM=203
IMPN=Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN13=9780714870670
Language_English
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20160411
POP=London
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=Phaidon Press Ltd
SMM=20
Subject=Photography & Photographs
Subject=Society & Culture : General
Subject=The Arts: General Issues
WMM=137

The Documentary Impulse

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Hardback | English

By (author): Stuart Franklin

Award-winning photographer Stuart Franklin''s exploration of how we, as humans, are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the ''tank man'' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us. He focuses on photography but traces this universal need through art, literature and science. Looking at photojournalism, war photography and work recording our culture, Franklin identifies some of its driving impulses: curiosity, outrage, reform and ritual; the search for evidence, for beauty, for therapy; and the immortalization of memory. As our understanding of ''documentary'' continues to expand, Franklin considers photographic staging - where, perhaps, the future of the genre may lie: in search of truth over fact. This book traces what I shall call the documentary impulse. Here I mean the passion to record, with fidelity, the moments we experience and wish to preserve, the things we witness and might want to reform; or simply the people, places or things we find remarkable... Photography (and journalism) practised respectfully has the power to educate us all towards a greater understanding and empathy towards others. -Stuart Franklin See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Dimensions: 137 x 203 x 20mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Apr 2016
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780714870670
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