DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Diplomska naloga vsebuje zgodovinski pregled dokumentarne fotografije in njene uporabe skozi zgodovino. Domneva, da sta estetika in dokumentarizem v družbeni dokumentarni fotografiji neločljiva pojma, se je potrdila ob proučevanju del različnih dokumentarnih fotografov in njihovih kritikov. V nalogi je bilo ugotovljeno, da ima dokumentarna fotografija konotacijsko in denotacijsko značilnost in da je njena verodostojnost pogojena s fotografovo integriteto in predstavitvijo teme na razumljiv način. Za razumevanje sporočilnosti dokumentarne fotografije je prav tako pomembna “gledalčeva” inteligenca in sposobnost razumevanje njene semantične sporočilnosti.The thesis contains a historical overview of documentary photography and its use throughout history. Our assumptions about inseparability of aestheticism and dokumentarism in a social documentary photography is confirmed to be true, as we had examine various work of documentary photographers and their critics. Our thesis confirmed that documentary photography has conotation and denotation features and that its credibility is conditional on the photographer\u27s integrity and presentation of topics in a meaningful way. To understand the message of documentary photography is also important spectator’s intelligence and ability to understand its semantic communicative