New Documents

New Documents

From the early 1900s to the advent of Facebook Live, New Documents highlights the ways in which eyewitnesses have created and shared evidence to expose injustice and abuses of power, setting the agenda for social discourse.


Thursday

Jul 28, 2016 | 3:30pm

Following a month of terrible violence in Orlando, Baton Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas, the Bronx Documentary Center will open New Documents, an exhibition which examines the history of ordinary citizens photographing and recording extraordinary events.

From the early 1900s to the advent of Facebook Live, New Documents highlights the ways in which eyewitnesses have created and shared evidence to expose injustice and abuses of power, setting the agenda for social discourse.

Free and open to the public.