Documentary:
With the documentary aspects
of art and art acting as a document of a real life event, Bird explains how it
is almost impossible for it to be a flat, objective view. Instead these
documents are influenced by the artists’ perspective which then imbues this first
hand recreation with an…”imaginative resonance beyond their function as vehicles
for information.” (Bird, 2012, pg. 166)
Being a documentarian myself
I can understand how there is no way to produce a document that is purely
objective unless you leave a camera on a light post that shoots in all
directions and takes a shot of what-ever is going on below. But even then you
are not getting the eye level perspective so does that count? And capturing
things in a moment can be and often are taken out of context since we only have
a small piece of information to base any truth on.
When I create a documentary I
choose how to present the information and in what way I want to make the viewer
feel. I direct the viewer to focus on certain ideas, I rearrange text or dialogue
and I add music to fit my artistic vision.
Paul Nash war painting:
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