Documentary Photography takes on many styles and forms. In this Journal I am going to look at several different photographers and their style of work including:

Jacob August Riis who was a police reporter for a New York newspaper and the father of socialistic documentary photography whose pictures of New York slums led to changes in US legislation.

Dorthea Lange who is best known for her photography on the "Farm Security Administration" which documented American people after the Wall Street Crash and is respected for her series of images of the "migrant mother" taken in 1936.

Henri Cartier-Bresson who is probably the most well known documentary photographer of the 20th Century and was one of the four photographers who started Magnum the world's most famous agency. Which despite the profile of Reuters is still held in high esteem and as a role model and influence to journalistic and documentary photographers of this millennium.

Roberta Capa who was also a founder member of Magnum with his imaginative use of photo-journalism during the second world war which was used extensively for propaganda by the USA.

He also Co-founded the Magnum picture agency in 1947 along with Robert Capa. The aim of Magnum was to ensure photographers were not manipulated by any single magazine or editor and ensure their work received reconisition and recompense.

Many people regard Henri Cartier-Bresson as a social documentary photographer. His pictures derive their effectiveness from capturing fragments of life at precisely the right instant. Time and again his work demonstrates his perceptive eye and instinctive response.

In this image of the mother nursing the young baby you sense the feeling loneliness, isolation of this poor family which is heightened by the expanse of open land to the right of frame by the tattered tent the signs show the desperate and appalling conditions under which the family lived.

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