Documentary photography usually refers to a type of professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur or student hobby. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually honest photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people. The pictures usually depict a certain view point of the photographer.
Usually the photographs are meant for publication in newspapers or magazines, but they are sometimes only used for exhibition in an art gallery.
An example of a documentary photographer is Dorothea Lange.
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