Engaged observers : documentary photography since the sixties / Brett Abbott

Object Details

Author

Abbott, Brett 1978-

J. Paul Getty Museum

""This volume is published on the occasion of the exhibition Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 29-November 14, 2010"--T.p. verso."

Contents

Engaged observers in context / Brett Abbott -- The photographers. Leonard Freed : Black in white America -- Philip Jones Griffiths : Vietnam Inc. -- W. Eugene and Aileen M. Smith : Minamata -- Susan Meiselas : Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979 -- Mary Ellen Mark : Streetwise -- Lauren Greenfield : Fast forward and girl culture -- Larry Towell : The Mennonites -- Sebastiao Salgado : Migrations -- James Nachtwey : The sacrifice

Summary

A critical survey of nine documentary photographers who were at the cutting edge of this form of journalism during the second half of the 20th century, 'Engaged Observers' shows how since the sixties photographers such as Leonard Freed & Susan Meiselas have challenged the conventional objectivity of the newsroom.

2010

C2010

Type

Exhibitions

Physical description

viii, 236 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Documentary photography

Record ID

siris_sil_963038

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