Photography, more than any other visual medium, has often been described as a trace, impression, or index of the real.
Image: Antonio Beato, Tombs of Mamelukes (and Fly), ca. 1870. (Source)
In Towards a Philosophy of Photography, Vilém Flusser points out that there have been two fundamental turning points in human culture.
Image: Dziga Vertov’s editing diagram for Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa (1931). (Source)
On March 15, 2013, the Green Team Documentary Database was officially launched.
Image: The documentary image by TSAI Ming-Te in 2016 Taiwan International Documentary Festival “This is how Taiwan Growing Up--If the Documentaries Have Colors: The 30th Anniversaries of Green Team”. (Source)