We covered a lot of ground in this lecture:
Documentary projects used the veracity of photography to publicise and inform:
Mass Observation - UK documentary project 1937 - 1953
Farm Security Admistration - massive US project
Florence Thomson - the "Migrant Mother"
Walker Evans - the Robbie Williams of the FSA
August Sander - Faces of the Twentieth Century (before the Nazis put him in prison)
Wikipedia on Propaganda
Nazi propaganda
Some images have become iconic:
Joe Rosenthal's picture at Iwo Jima
Associated Press counter accusations of fakery
Flags of our Fathers - Hollywood movie with a twist
Team America World Police
William Eugene Smith perhaps the World's greatest photographer
Minamata - Smith never fully recovered from being beaten up while trying to photograph the plight of a Japanese fishing vilage being poisoned by an untouchable and unaccountable chemical industry in the 1970s
The Family of Man exhibition in 1955 (curated by Edward Steichen)
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