“Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.” WellsMinutesSubjectsCaptureSensibilityDocumentariesFormatBurroughs Author:Janet Maslin
“Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of manipulation, abstraction, and intervention. But now, it is very much on the surface. I like this honesty about its dishonesty. Every photograph has many truths and none. Photographs are ambiguous, no matter how seemingly scientific they appear to be. They are always subject to an uncontrollable context. This is a tired statement, but worth repeating.” PeopleMatterRealitySubjectsHonestyBecomingPhotographyTiredPhotographSurfaceStatementsFamiliarLimitationVulnerabilityManipulationLayersDocumentariesAbstractionInterventionDishonestyBecoming MoreAmbiguousUncontrollableDocumentary Photography Author:Taryn Simon
“I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.” IfsMatterFilmRoomsSubjectsBusyEditingDocumentariesFundingSubject MatterEditsTediousDocumentary Films Author:Haile Gerima
“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.” PeopleWantShouldProblemBigsWantedPoorSubjectsSeriousWasteEatingThinkerConsumptionDocumentariesPoor PeopleSerious Subjects Author:Agnes Varda
“The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.” SubjectsDocumentaries Author:Jeremy Coon
“One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.” TryingFactsCareFilmChallengesLevelsDealsAttentionSubjectsPopulationObviousTraumaExtrasSurvivorDocumentariesVigilanceMinefieldsDocumentary Films Author:Amy Ziering
“I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.” ThinkingStoriesAbilitySubjectsDocumentaries Author:Leslie Cockburn
“The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.” UsedSubjectsStageInformationDirectWindowSurfaceDocumentariesPrivate Life Author:Arthur Tress