"documentary texts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to texts that reflect aspects of reality or provide facts about a particular subject. For example: "The educational documentary texts provided the students with a greater understanding of the issue."
"In many ways, it's a documentary text," she says.
This highly popular exhibition presented over 500 photographs mostly photojournalistic and documentary work alongside texts of different sizes and formats, somewhat in the manner of a three-dimensional magazine.
"I didn't like it; I resisted it," he told Jason Scott, for "GET LAMP," a documentary about text adventures.
(Rooney) 'Undesirable Elements Festival' (performances begin on Thursday) Ping Chong and his theater company have spent the past 20 years giving voice to the marginalized in his Undesirable Elements series, which consist of documentary-style texts delivered by the actual participants.
But this season, a handful of plays on New York stages and beyond are demonstrating a strong adherence to the facts, with documentary-style texts that have been drawn verbatim from interviews and transcripts.
But "From One Second to the Next," a short documentary about texting and driving commissioned by AT&T from the acclaimed director Werner Herzog, tells four deeply harrowing tales of lives altered by a driver's focus on a phone rather than on the road.
Social documentaries abound: videos, texts and photographs of railroad laborers in Moldavia, of earthquake damage in Japan, of toxic dump reclamation projects in the United States.
"The committee is in receipt of extensive documentary evidence — including text messages, voice messages, and email correspondence — outlining extensive efforts by the Trump campaign meeting participants, at least one Trump Organization lawyer, and the Agalarovs, to control the public narrative surrounding the meeting," the report said.
While many other artists plumb social issues and draw on documentary sources as their texts, Mr. Joseph makes each piece distinctive and deeply personal.
