Document
This noun is usually associated with the concept of the photograph as a fact, which was initially proposed in the nineteenth-century concept of the photograph as evidence and then again, in a different context, as the new vision in the 1920s and 1930s and as 'new’ documents in the 1960s. The word "document" has been brought forward to reinvent the relationship between photography and reality.
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