Course 447 · Lesson 01

The Ethical Eye: Documentary, Portrait, and the Boundaries of Practice

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The Documentary Promise

447.1 Lesson 01 of 08 3 quiz questions 1 assignment

Documentary rests on a three-word promise: this happened. The terms of the reader's trust — no staging, no paying of subjects, and a caption that never says more than the photographer knows — and why more documentary lies are told under photographs than in them.

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