Do you need to be an insider in order to produce a successful documentary project? In her essay Inside/Out, Abigail Solomon-Godeau examines the different types of documentary photography by looking at the writings of Martha Rosler and Susan Sontag and the work of American photographers Diane Arbus, Nan Godin, Larry Clark and Robert Frank. Looking first at the views of Sontag and Rosler, Solomon-Godeau writes: Thus where Rosler sees the issue of photographic voyerism and objectification as a synecdoche of a larger political/cultural totality, Sontag tends to locate the problem in photography itself. Nevertheless, and despite the important difference between … Continue reading Research point – documentrary photography (P.27)