Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press
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