Donigan Cumming

Reality and Motive in Documentary

Robert Graham, Documentary and the Powers of Description:

California writer Greil Marcus told Cumming that he was the first photographer to treat Presley fans with respect.” 

“Principally, there are the bodies. The maimed, the scarred, the ill and the old have bodies which speak particularly stridently of being a certain body. Upon and around these bodies are the clothing, furnishings and possessions (the documentarian's usual trunk of props) which mask and reveal, cover nakedness and fill emptiness."



O.K. Harris, New York, New York, U.S.A. - 1986 • 49th Parallel, New York, New York, U.S.A. - 1986
Grünwald Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 1986 • Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla, California, U.S.A - 1986
La réalité et le dessein de la photographie documentaire - Centre national de la photographie, Paris, France - 1986
Foto(con)tekst, Perspektief Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - 1987
La réalité et le dessein de la photographie documentaire
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium - 1988 • XYZ Fotografie vzw, Gent, Belgium -1989
International Center of Photography, New York, New York, U.S.A. - 1989
The Floating Gallery & Main/Access Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 1990
La réalité et le dessein de la photographie documentaire - Les Cents jours d'art contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada - 1993