Witness in Our Timetraces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-nine of the genre's best photographers, editors, and curators, showing how the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change. The second edition includes a new section of interviews on documentary photography in the field and an exploration of the role of photojournalism in 21st-century media.Witness in Our Timeprovides an insider's view of a profession that continues to confront questions of art and truth while extending the definitions of both.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seeing and Believing–
Kerry TremainPHOTOGRAPHERS
Hansel Mieth: The Depression and the Early Days of
LifeWalter Rosenblum: Lewis Hine, Paul Strand, and the Photo League
Michelle Vignes: Magnum Photo Agency: The Early Years
Wayne Miller: Word War II and the Family of Man
Peter Magubane: A Black Photographer in Apartheid South Africa
Matt Herron: The Civil Rights Movement and the Southern Documentary Project
Jill Freedman: Resurrection City
Mary Ellen Mark: Streetwise Photographer
Earl Dotter: The United Mine Workers
Eugene Richards: Americans We
Susan Meiselas: Central America and Human Rights
Sebastião Salgado: Workers
Graciela Iturbide: The Indigenous of Mexico
Antonin Kratochvil: The Fall of the Iron Curtain
Donna Ferrato: Living with the Enemy: Domestic Violence
Joseph Rodriguez: In the Barrio
Dayanita Singh: A Truer India
Fazal Sheikh: Portrait of a Refugee
EDITORS AND CURATORS
Gifford Hampshire: The Environmental Protection Agency's Project DOCUMERICA
Peter Howe:
LifeMagazine and
OuttakesColin Jacobson:
Independent Magazineand
ReportageAnne Wilkes Tucker: The Museum Context
Fred Ritchin: The Fish are Last to Know about the Water: The Emerging Digital Revolution
IN THE FIELD
Ronald Partridge: Dorothea Ll“2
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