In comparing myself to Robert Coles as a documentary writer, I have found several similarities as well as some differences. I used some of the same techniques that he and the other documentarians used in their essays. I have also found that some of the techniques that I did not use of Robert Coles, Dorothea Lange, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Taylor; are some that I wish I would have.
Dorothea Lange, a photographer, has taken many photographs of one family in particular. "A photographer has edited and cropped her work in order to make it more accessible to her anticipated viewers."…
