Documentary

Documentary photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life.

The decisive moment is a concept made popular by the street photographer, photojournalist, and Magnum co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson. The decisive moment refers to capturing an event that is ephemeral and spontaneous, where the image represents the essence of the event itself.  He was an advocate for documentary photography and capturing things in the moments as well as having a great interest of the surrealism movement of art and photography.

the images of documentary photography below all the technique of decisive movement to capture particular snapshots of a scene, with this different inferences and connotations can be made depending on the point of image capture in other words if its not in the right moment the meaning and message behind the image may be completely different to that of the intended.


Bruce Davidson 

Bruce Davidson began taking photographs at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. While attending Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University, he continued to further his knowledge and develop his passion. He was later drafted into the army and stationed near Paris. There he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of the Magnum Photos.

This image above is from his famous subway series. This denotes a man holding a gun to another mans head.  The man in

























































Series of Documentary images, "My Daily Journey" .