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Documentary photography

A genre of photography that aims to objectively chronicle a subject or event

3 examples

Frances Benjamin Johnston Benjamin and Ida Brave - Hampton students - and their family. Sioux 1899-1900
Gordon Parks Soapbox Orator, Harlem, New York 1952
LaToya Ruby Frazier Mom and Me in the Phase 2007

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