Authentic, unretouched photographs that record important social conditions and political events are called ______.

Question

a. documentary photographs
b. portraiture
c. decisive moments
d. landscapes
e. fine art photographs

Answer 1

a. documentary photographs

a. Correct. Authentic, untampered photographs that record important events or social conditions are called documentary photographs.
b. Incorrect. While these types of images sometimes contain elements of portraiture, that is not what they are called.
c. Incorrect. Decisive moments are what Cartier-Bresson tried to capture and are often photographs of very typical or common subjects.
d. Incorrect. Landscape photographs focus on nature scenes, not on social conditions or political events.
e. Incorrect. Sometimes a fine art photograph is a capture of a political event or social conditions, but that is not the specific category.