from mainstream society, as inThe Bikeriders(1968) a
study of the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club to
which he belonged, and Conversations with the
Dead(1971), which depicted the inmates of the
Texas State Prison. Davidson transited through dif-
ferent aspects of society, notably Black life as cap-
tured in East 100th Street (1966–1970), the
peculiarities of ‘‘underground life’’ in Subway
(1986), andCentral Park (1995), which explored
open space within urban life.
Yet independently of the financial or social cir-
cumstances, certain photojournalists will always seek
to develop their work to a greater extent and depth
than allowed by news photography. Americans Gor-
don Parks and Eugene Richards, British Philip Jones
Griffiths, Czech Antonin Kratochvil, French Henri
Cartier-Bresson and Raymond Depardon, Russian
Georgi Pinkasov, and Indian Raghubir Singh, are
some other remarkable photojournalists and docu-
mentarians, who engendered numerous self-moti-
vated projects. The Brazilian Sebastia ̃o Salgado,
one of the most renowned contemporary photogra-
phers, first received international distinction through
his dramatic news shot of the attempted assassina-
tion of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Salgado is
primarily, however, a social documentarian very
much in the tradition of Riis and Hine who exhaus-
tively documents what he believes to be the greatDOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHYLewis Wickes Hine, Young knitter in Tennessee knitting mills, 1912, gelatin silver print, 12.6
17.7 cm., Gift of the Photo Leaugue, New York: ex-collection Lewis Wickes Hine.
[Photograph courtesy of George Eastman House]