Documentary Photography

Above: a six-minute video in which Susan Meiselas discusses "documentary photography's potential to connect and move audiences....

A model poses for a photographer at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Friday, August 12, 2011.

I heard sirens, and went outside. I photographed this incident . I looked around at the crowd, and saw the expected mix of curiousity and sh...

A boy approaches a crow bitten by his dog, Los Angeles, Thursday, May 26,2011.

Sant Khalsa explains her photographic practice while California Museum of Photography Director Colin Westerbeck listens during the opening r...

Sant Khalsa explains her photographic practice while California Museum of Photography Director Colin Westerbeck listens during the opening...

On my other blog on documentary photography I've been focused on photojournalism as a subject. So, lately, all of my reading has consis...

Ever file out a negative carrier? Here's the thing: at one time, film negatives were placed in a metal holder and then the holder was ...

Well, not really the same. The new blog I've started is focused on documentary photography -- but is really meant to cover the merging ...

I have other blogs. You can see them in the right column. The reason I'm starting a new blog is to open a discussion on the emergence ...

I've started a new blog on Documentary Photography, and the first post asks the inevitable question: What Would Walker Evans Do?

On Friday afternoon, Mrs. Actualities and I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to hear a panel on The Future of Investigative R...

Well, it seems the current economy has had people looking back to the WPA photographers.... Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We...

Over on my other blog -- New York Portraits -- I've been posting about my visit to the galleries in Chelsea. Of particular interest, fr...