Sculpting Reality
Wallace, Ian / Del Rio, Victor
Tracing the history of documentary photography, from Walker Evans to Xavier RibasThe medium of photography has long had tenuous ties to both the truth and the arts. This volume traces the evolution of documentary photography--from its origin as a journalistic tool through its development into a distinct artistic and aesthetic form. Beginning in the 1930s with Walker Evans' foundational influence on the genre and culminating in the 1980s with t...