The District Town ”N”, a Composite Character of a Typical Russian Town on the Basis of the Urban Research of the Golden Ring of Russia

Student: Kalinina Elizaveta

Educational Programme: Design (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

In the course of work on the diploma project a visual research on the topic «Methods of construction narratives in a documentary photography» was conducted. There were considered works of ten photo artists: from the mid 1970s till nowadays. The study is separated into three chapters: concept photography without narrative, photography in which narrative has been distilled into a single image, storytelling in photo projects. The part of questions relates to a photography medium:  1. What is documentary photography?  2. Can we trust photos?  3. Where is the boundary between photography as a document and a photography as an author’s statement?  4. How can stories be told through photography?  The author is also interested in such dichotomies as: objective and subjective, documentary photography and photography, which pretends to be a documentary.

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