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A History of Documentary Photography, Part II

The peculiar thing about documentary photography is that, since the inception of the medium, documenting has been the very purpose of photography as a whole. Here, historian Guillaume Blanc continues his in-depth look at what many consider to be the nobility of photography. Read the first part of the course here if needed.

Social issues: Documentation as reform

Even as photography was making breakthroughs in tandem with science, the nineteenth century was also a testing ground for photography from a sociological perspective. As major Western cities were modernizing...

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