Documentary Photography

My Project
Documentary Photography book

Title: Documentary Photography
Pedagogy, thinking, and critique documentary photography

Dedication to: Reality

The book has two chapters.
The First Chapter is a pedagogy of documentary photography.
The Second Chapter is trying to determine a theory on documentary through critique and analyzing documentary photography.

The First Chapters Table of Contents:

• Documentary Photography definition and criteria
• Single Image
• Visual literacy and single Image
• Photo Series and Photo Stories
• Whence to create documentary photo stories?
• Various kinds of photo storytelling and their differences
• A piece of educational advice for starting the praxis of photo storytelling
• Photography Style and how to create it
• Studying several works from documentary photography masters
• Exceptions in documentary photography
• Environmental Portrait
• Educational chart of the first chapter
• Methods of documentary photography representation
• How to write a statement and proposal for a photo story
• Some examples for writing proposals
• How to create a photo portfolio
• The roles of documentary Workshop and Master Classes

The Second Chapters Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Documentary Photography, mechanism of transformation or conservatism
• The Theory of Event / Reality
• Is there room for Iranian Documentary Photography?
• Critique Iranian Documentary Photography through representation, from photojournalism to Anthropology, Ethnography, and Iranology photography
• The Last Word
• Documentary Photography, language of a lover

Published by Shourafarin Book Publication / Tehran September 2013
This book until 2019 five times re-published, and then because of the need to refer and reading was illegally published free on the Internet.