Life Library of Photography. Documentary Photography

Revised ed. — Time-Life Books, 1983. — 254 p. — (Life Library of Photography)The Life Library of Photography series consists of 17 volumes. The books cover all the main aspects of photography: technology and equipment; shooting methods; film processing and photo printing; history of photography; photography as an art form.The term documentary photography came into use during the Depression years, when telling pictures of poverty-stricken farmers awakened Americans to the need for social reform. And in many minds this field of photography still suggests pictures of the Dust Bowl of rural hardship and urban slums.Yet as this book shows, there is, and always has been, far more to documentary photography than the recording of the world's ills. For there is much more to document than suffering and poverty faraway places and exotic peoples, quirks of nature and of society, the whole gamut of emotions and relationships. The subject matter is, indeed, almost unlimited.