The left-wing activism, which comprises most of the book, is explored with vivid documentary colour and simple earnestness.
In The Private Life of the Kingfisher, for example, it was colour that turned an interesting documentary into a work of art.
Despite his preference for working in colour, Gursky's flat, dispassionate documentary style placed him squarely within the Düsseldorf school of photography, alongside Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, and Thomas Struth, all of whom studied under the Bechers.
At Unseen, Lorenzo Vitturi's self-published Dalston Anatomy created a buzz with its merging of staged sculptural forms and street documentary in vivid colours.
This tour documentary sees the colour-co-ordinated duo travel by private jet around Canada, playing free daytime shows in boats, buses and bowling alleys (where Jack bowls mid-song), before their official gigs in the evenings.
Graham was one of the very first British documentary photographers to work in colour.
In the early 80s, his work shifted in style and tone as, often shooting in colour, he concentrated on portraiture and extended documentary projects.
It won a Peabody Award for the documentary The Second World War in Colour and a BAFTA award for Britain at War in Colour.
Such a mindset must explain why exquisite work by William Capon, who rendered the streets of late-Georgian London in fresh, delicate colour, seems to have been regarded as useful documentary rather than bona fide art.
It is technically a short documentary: just 26 seconds long, 486 silent, colour, 8mm frames.
