The peculiar thing about documentary photography is that, since the inception of the medium, documenting has been the very purpose of photography as a whole. Historian Guillaume Blanc takes an in-depth look at what many consider to be the nobility of photography.
When the Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) was developing his invention in 1810–20, he was already looking for a way to faithfully reproduce engravings, which were at the time the privileged vehicle of knowledge and information thanks to the eas...
