What breathed new life into the practice of telling stories through pictures was documentary photography, which integrated a crucial social purpose. Documentary photography aimed to portray ...

When the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village at Blue Water, dozens of plundered artifacts ended up in the Smithsonian. The ...

What breathed new life into the concept of telling stories through pictures was documentary photography which integrated a crucial, social purpose. Documentary photography aimed to portray, in a ...

Orange Blossom Trail is a new photography book collaboration between photographer Joshua Lutz and writer George Saunders, ...

Documentary photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her work during the 1930s with Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA). Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1895, Lange studied ...

The formal aim of social documentary was initially to keep records, but by the 1930s, it evolved to enlighten and educate. Photographers gathered images to develop a ‘picture story’—a ...

Adam Lach is a photographer and an author of short films. He creates works that concern social problems and socially excluded persons. He is a co-founder and member of the Napo Images agency, which ...

This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘What is the future of photography? ’ ...