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documentary photography

form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events
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documentary photography
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documentary photography

Summary

documentary photography is a photography genre[1]. It draws 232 Wikipedia views per month (photography_genre category, ranking #19 of 60).[2]

Key Facts

  • documentary photography's instance of is recorded as photography genre[3].
  • documentary photography is a type of photography[4].
  • documentary photography's Commons category is recorded as Documentary photography[5].
  • documentary photography's different from is recorded as Social photography[6].
  • documentary photography's practiced by is recorded as documentary photographer[7].

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Definition and Type

documentary photography's instance of is recorded as photography genre[3]. It is a type of photography[4].

Why It Matters

documentary photography draws 232 Wikipedia views per month (photography_genre category, ranking #19 of 60).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → photography
    Instance of → photography genre
    Practiced by → documentary photographer
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 18071, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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