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documentarian, n.|ˌdɒkjʊmɛnˈtɛərɪən|
[f. documentary a.: see -arian.]
1. a. A photographer who works in a documentary style.
1951Kalish & Edom Picture Editing 11/1 (caption) A great photo documentarian. 1972Photogr. Communications iv. 151 Two young documentarians, William Albert Allard and Dallas Kenney then reveal their personal approaches.
b. One who directs or produces documentary films; = documentarist n.
1976National Observer (U.S.) 6 Nov. 22/2 Controversial documentarian Frederick Wiseman..presents his 10th film, an examination of the auctioning, fattening, slaughtering, packing, and selling in America of beef and lamb. 1979Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 15/2 The director, Peter Morley, used no archive material to illustrate the story, as other documentarians have done. 1984New Yorker 19 Mar. 33/2 What Flaherty..distilled was the heroic beauty in simple everyday experience... (Like all great documentarians, he imparts his own spirit to his films.)
2. One who is skilled in the analysis of documentary evidence.
1963Listener 21 Mar. 505/1 Such a devoted documentarian as George Paloczi-Horvath..has this to say: ‘..no documentary evidence has been adduced to prove that the Soviet forces in Manchuria ever gave Japanese arms or other material aid to the Communists.’ 1966Punch 23 Mar. 437/2 Because Mr. Allen is more documentarian than social psychologist, he never examines that area of the German psyche which lusted after Nazism. |