Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: What is difference between Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
From: Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:17:27 -0400

Good explanation Ted.  Thanks

ernie
On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 02:28 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

>
> Ernest Nitka asked:
>> "What is difference between Documentary Photography and 
>> Photojournalism?<<
>
> Hi Ernie,
> In my case I use both terms depending on the type of assignment I'm
> shooting. Where the assignment pertains to a what we might call a "news
> related" topic I'm a photojournalist.
>
> On the other hand when I, or as Sandy Carter and I did this past
> winter/spring, were documenting the lives of Women in Medicine for our
> "Women in Medicine" book. In that case we might or could be called
> documentary photographers.

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