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In 1895, he immigrated to San Francisco, where he worked as a private tutor and taught himself the art of photography. In his spare time, Genthe made periodic forays into Chinatown, photographing its inhabitants with a concealed camera. His images are the only photographic documentation of Chinatown before the San Francisco earthquake. Genthe eventually opened a photographic studio, though it and some of his works were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. After a trip to Japan, in 1911 Genthe moved to New York City, where he became a successful portrait photographer. Jennifer E

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After the Earthquake, San Francisco 1906-Arnold Genthe

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After the Earthquake, San Francisco 1906-Arnold Genthe

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Genthe captured the panic and confusion that pervaded the city and presaged the vast damage yet to come: by the end of the third day, more than four square miles of San Francisco had been leveled. Adding to the trauma of earthquake and fire were the controlled explosions of dynamite meant to eliminate structurally compromised buildings. Documenting this chaotic travesty in history holds importance to the many natural disasters that have taken place in America.
Jennifer E

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Pictures of Old Chinatown 1908-Arnold Genthe

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Pictures of Old Chinatown 1908-Arnold Genthe

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Genthe's time in the west had started his development of documenting immigrants in Old Chinatown of San Francisco during his stay through 1935-1908. He started with the intent on recording the surviving vestiges of old-world traditions in this thriving ethnic enclave. It is rare when riding evidence of early immigration in America through photography but is a historic experiment that many of the people of America can remember with gratitude to their ancestors.
Jennifer E

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Impressions of Old New Orleans 1926-Arnold Genthe

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Impressions of Old New Orleans 1926-Arnold Genthe

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Making two trips to New Orleans, Genthe intended to document the city’s Old World charm before modern life changed it forever. He quickly discovered, however, that he was already too late. While evidence of modernism was everywhere, even in the historic French Quarter, Genthe did not let this deter him from making a picturesque portrayal of the city. Old New Orleans was difficult to capture before its modernization, but with the help of Arnold some of its origins will be remembered.
Jennifer E

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Frank S. Matsura was a Japanese photographer who moved to America in 1901. He died at only 39 years old from tuberculosis but was remembered and respected for frontier region that he documented with his camera.
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- Colin Wagner

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Crew Transporting Rock for Fill in the Conconully Dam in 1907

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Crew Transporting Rock for Fill in the Conconully Dam in 1907

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This photograph was taken by Frank S Matsura in 1907. In Washington, Okanogan County. This is a photo of the crew moving rocks to fill for the construction of the dam.
- Colin Wagner

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Crew carrying dirt from a Pit at the Conconully Dam in 1908.

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Crew carrying dirt from a Pit at the Conconully Dam in 1908.

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This photograph was taken by Frank S Matsura. It shows the crew hauling dirt which was used to help build the Dam.
- Colin Wagner

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Edward Curtis was a famous photographer in the early 1920s. He was one of the first photographers to pioneer documentary photography. Documentary photography captures the culture and ways of living of many people. Edward Curtis documented the lives of Native Indians in the Western United States. His work provided insight to fellow Americans of the lives of Indians. He glorified their lifestyle and outlined the way people view American Indians. Curtis received respect from many famous figures including, Theodore Roosevelt and JP Morgan. He started an American Indian Project to document the culture, ceremonies, and tribes of American Indians because he believed one day that the tribes will be assimilated into modern day culture and would no longer exist. Edward Curtis finished his documentary series with 700 portfolio images, 1,500 volume size images, and 7,000 pages of text.
-Carissa Lucas

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Along with photo documentation, Edward Curtis created maps of Indian tribes and where they resided in the Western United States. His maps provided a layout for Americans to view. After his work was rediscovered in the 1960s, his maps provided crucial information for historians.
- Carissa Lucas

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One of Edward Curtis' most famous photographs was "Homeward" and was shot in 1898. "Homeward" was taken in Puget Sound in one of his first seasons of taking pictures. This photograph along with two others was entered in many exhibitions and won prizes everywhere. He won the grand prize at the National Photographic Exhibition and won a solid gold medal at another. This piece of work expressed the cultural influence of the Indians and how the sea affected their lives tremendously. "Homeward" shows the dependence of seafood and how the use of canoes was an important part of their transportation.
- Carissa Lucas

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During his North American Indian Project, Edward Curtis captured a photo in 1915 called "The Wedding Party." The photo was of the Kwakiutl tribe after a wedding ceremony. The caption provided by Curtis states "After the wedding ceremony at the bride's village the party returns to the husband's home. The newly married pair stand on a painted "bride's seat" in the stern of the canoe, and the bridegroom's sister or other relative, dances on a platform in the bow, while the men sing and rhythmically thump the canoes with the handles of their paddles." This piece of work documented a very important tradition and ceremony of the Kwakiutl tribe.

- Carissa Lucas

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Dorothea Lange was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s. She documented the Great Depression and how families who were greatly affected lived. She also worked during WWII, capturing photos of the Japanese Internment Camps. Her photos were used to bring light to the conditions of poor rural America and get the attention of the public. She documented the Great Depression and WWII in California and her work would go on to influence later documentary and journalistic photography.
-Carissa Lucas

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In 1932, Dorothea Lange started her documentary series in the streets San Francisco, California. She documented the unemployed men standing in breadlines and displayed their desperate and poor conditions. She received a lot of recognition for her work from both the public and other photographers. Her early work led to the formation of the FSA.
- Carissa Lucas

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One of Lange's most famous photographs is "Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California." It was shot on a pea farm in 1936 as commission for the FSA and became the most iconic photo for the agency's agenda. She documented the hardships of the migrant farmers that were pushed out West due to The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl. Her work with the FSA brought attention upon the conditions of the migrant workers during The Great Depression to the public's eye.
-Carissa Lucas

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Dorothea Lange's commitment to social issues and documentation led her to join government's War Relocation Authority to capture the Japanese Internment camps in 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Her work displayed raw emotions of many families that were uprooted out of their homes during WWII. She capture critical images in which the government censored and suppressed for the duration of the war. After the war Lange's work was rediscovered, edited, and held in an exhibition to show the public.
- Carissa Lucas

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Arthur Rothstein was a son of Jewish immigrants from New York. He went to Colombia University and was the first photographer to be sent out by Roy Stryker a photography professor at Colombia who was in charge of the Photo Unit of the Historical Section of Resettlement Administration(deal of relocation of struggling families in the Great Depression. Arthur was part of the FSA photographers that captured the living conditions during the depression.
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Farmer and 2 sons in dust storm, Oklahoma 1936-Arthur Rothstein

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Farmer and 2 sons in dust storm, Oklahoma 1936-Arthur Rothstein

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The Due Bowl in Oklahoma was a severe case of drought that damaged American ecology and agricultural. The winds, dust storms, and blizzards did damage to the already unsteady homes. Many families were also affected by the deficit in agricultural production during the drought so much that they had to leave their farms.
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Annie Pettway Bendolph carrying water. Gee's Bend, Alabama. April 1937-Arthur Rothstein

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Annie Pettway Bendolph carrying water. Gee's Bend, Alabama. April 1937-Arthur Rothstein

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Arthur was sent by Stryker  to take photos of residents at Gee's Bend where many people had been enslaved before. The photographs he took were balancing the work life and dignity of the ones  no longer being victims.
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Slum tenant house in which both Black and white families live. Midland, Pennsylvania. 1938-Arthur Rothstein

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Slum tenant house in which both Black and white families live. Midland, Pennsylvania. 1938-Arthur Rothstein

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This photo captures the influence of union participation during the new deal moving families to middle class. Also represents the documentation of workers lifestyle in cordination with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
Jennifer E

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Russell Lee was a FSA photographer during the 1930s and the Great Depression. He documented the lives of poor families who were struggling financial. His photography career was started around 1936 and he retired around 1973.
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- Colin Wagner

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Chuckwagon near Marfa, Texas by Russell Lee, 1939. 

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Chuckwagon near Marfa, Texas by Russell Lee, 1939. 

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- Colin Wagner

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Hard Times, Oklahoma by Russell Lee, 1940

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Hard Times, Oklahoma by Russell Lee, 1940

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One of the most influencial photographers of the century, had created many works of art through his life that reflected on the times of each era. Specifically during his last few years of photography and film, he used the last of his time to create impactful art that would last forever in the hearts of people.who have seen his creations.
Jennifer E

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Academy Award winner for Best Documentary for the 17th Academy Awards. A historic documentary based off WW2 following of the ship and crew mirror the experiences of the seamen who went from green recruits through the rigors of military life, battle, and, for some, death. This documentary holds importance to the ones who fought for the survival of other parts of the world and the depth of courage and mischief the ones fighting during this time went through.
Jennifer E

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Part of the Museum of Modern Art's International Program, The Family of Man showed photography of life through the eyes around the world and how people lived same and different through the cycles of life during the Cold War. The photography gave the people a sense of unity in humanity.
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Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen (1964)

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Masters of Photography - Edward Steichen (1964)

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A short documentary film based on Steichen's life as a influencial photogroher through the 20th century. He worked in every aspect of the art fashion, industrial, nature, combat, portrait and tabletop photography. As the leading curator of the New York Museum of Modern Art he created the famous "Family of Man" photography exposition in 1955. He made sure that his existence was held to its truest nature if importance with this documentary of himself through his art form through all stages of photography/film.
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James Nachtwey was inspired to get into photography from photographs of the Vietnam War and American Civil Rights movement. He did documentary photography on people lives.
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- Colin Wagner

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Gitarama, Rwanda, 1994—A man who had been held prisoner in a Hutu concentration camp had just been liberated by the advancing Tutsi guerrilla army. His face bore the scars of
extreme mistreatment.
- Colin Wagner

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Kabul, Afghanistan, 1996 - A woman dressed in a traditional burkha mourns for her brother, who was killed in a Taliban rocket attack during the siege of Kabul.
-Colin Wagner

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In the 1940s and later on, documentary photography evolved into films. Televisions shows, movies, and now streaming apps provides stories for generations to come. Major television channels show documentary films regularly. Streaming apps, like Netflix and Hulu provide their audience with their own documentary films. For a membership fee people can stream many films that are no longer available on cable. Documentary films have frown extremely popular and are accessible for people of all ages.
-Carissa Lucas

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Television documentaries became the new form of documentary photography. Many channels on the TV show weekly documentaries are new stories every episode. Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, A&E, and American Heroes Channel are just a few examples of channels that air documentaries. These documentaries are accessible to everyone and provide a deeper detailed story than photography.
-Carissa Lucas

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Streaming apps are universal on any device. They stream their own documentaries as well as others from cable. Streaming is the newest technology and can be accessed and watched by anybody anywhere. The evolution of documentary photography to film has led to advancements in accessibility and can be spread around the world easier. People's stories are now able to be publicized and people can view it now more than ever.
-Carissa Lucas