Topic > The importance of documentary photography and documentary

“One of the new genres of "documentary expression" that has emerged in recent years has been the documentary film” cited by Huffman. The image can represent both positive and negative aspects to encourage or discourage the audience on issues revealed in the photograph. The images of people shown during the Great Depression era created the fact that America was about to collapse, which showed the real reality of the Great Depressions in America. (Nicole Huffman - New Frontiers in American Documentary Film 1930-1942). Huffman states that "Using the camera, artists could capture the revolt of a worker, a poor farmer and his family trying to survive on exploited land, and the impact of the machine on man and land." He defines that there was no other machine suitable for capturing the movement of social realism (problems and difficulties of everyday life). Huffman further states, citing that the use of social documentary such as photography could "show the things that needed to be corrected" and encourage improvements in