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Thinking About Different Approaches to Documentary and Landscape

In the past couple of lectures we’ve had with Neil every Wednesday, we’ve been looking at various photographers that practise the art of street documentary such as Jacob Riis, Bruce Davidson, Lewis Hine and many others. What I find really useful about these lectures is that not only are we analysing the aesthetic structure of their photos and the technical aspects, but we’re also discussing the way they have approached each project and the kind of message they want to communicate to the viewer. For instance Bruce Davidson made a body of work titled ‘Brooklyn Gangs’ where he spent time documenting these gangs of young teenagers in the very late 50’s, a time where gangs were becoming very popular in New York and the culture has remained strong ever since.  Davidson at this time would have been in his mid twenties, 8 or 10 years older than the gang he followed and many of the older generation found these gangs to be intimidating. But Davidson portrayed them in a very positive manner; they look cool, fun, romantic, youthful and full of life. Different to the common approach of showing gang violence, vandalism, alcohol and drug abuse that we commonly shown in gang documentaries. We have also been examining the relationship between the photographer and the subjects and as to why they might want to approach the project in certain ways.

 This week we looked at architecture and urban landscape photographers including the different ways they could address past and current events as well as pop culture and the low living standards for certain forgotten towns. One example I would use is the work of Martha Rosler. She wanted to show and town consumed by poverty, alcoholics and homeless people but she didn’t want to follow the common cliché of photographing the homeless so she took pictures of the run down buildings and the empty bottles that littered the streets. She was addressing poverty through the use of urban landscape. I never thought of urban landscape and documentary as a way of communicating a message about today’s society and these lectures have really got me thinking about the different things happening in this world and a way I could address my own thoughts through urban landscape.