Photography and Fact For many years photography has been used to document the most significant of events, whether they affect an entire society, like a war, or a specific persons' life, such as a wedding. The reason that photography is used for such occasions instead of painting, drawing or sculpting is quite simple. It is because photography is the most remarkable of the fine arts. Other forms of art, are aesthetically pleasing and important in …
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…needing no translation (Daval, 190)." The rise of photojournalism made the public even more believing of photography and "the status of the photograph: from a document before, it now became evidence, irrefutable proof (Daval, 173)." Bibliography Bibliography Daval, Jean-Luc. Photography: History of an Art . New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. , 1982. 20th Century Photography: http://www.masters-of- photography. com/L/lange/lange_articles1.html Dorothea Lange Photographs. http://www.masters-of-photography. com/L/lange/lange_migrant_mother_full.html