MoMA curator John Szarkowski noted in the watershed 1967 exhibition New Documents that photographers Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Gary Winogrand “. . . directed the documentary approach [to photography] toward more personal ends. Their aim has been not to reform life, but to know it.”

In this two-session workshop, we will examine the photobook New Documents, 1967: Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand to find inspiration as we explore documentary photography and photographic projects. The second session, a photography practicum, will be dedicated to a photowalk, editing session, and critique in which we put documentary photography concepts and strategies into practice.