Documentary photography

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Documentary photography”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: John Thomson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.