Different groups in different times have employed a diverse set of available technologies to communicate to future generations, including oral traditions, written traditions and documentary recording media (still images, sound recordings and moving images).
Photographing her in depravity, showing her scoring, suffering, sick, and high, making images that are so valued in a certain tradition of documentary photography, seemed all wrong to me.
France had its own tradition of documentary criticism, stemming from the humanist scholars of the 16th century and stimulated by the founding of the École des Chartes (School of Paleography) in 1821.
NBC, Mondays at 9, starting Oct 2. * "FRONTLINE: THE CHOICE" In what is now something of a tradition, the documentary series takes a close look at the men running for president.
"What is unique to Gregory and the generation he taught is that they come out of this tradition of documentary photography, like Robert Frank, and blend it with this fictive and created thing," said Ms. Homes.
He says: "Even though I come from the tradition of documentary photography, my goal is not only to inform, but to create images that are the interpretation of an idea.
I was trained in the tradition of documentary photography, where I studied with Jim Goldberg and Larry Sultan.
"That work is sitting in the tradition of documentary photography," Hoffmann said, "but it also goes beyond -- it's one or two steps further".
When he got to make his own documentaries on more serious subjects, he attempted to integrate some of this training with the BBC tradition of documentary-making inspired by his hero James Mossman.
