Robert Coles, M.D. is a child psychiatrist and the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. He is a founding member of the Center of Documentary Studies at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-volume works The Inner Lives of Children and Children of Crisis. He is also the Editor of the documentary magazine Double Take.
"The complicated, tightrope dance of the ethical documentarian is
the subject of Robert Coles' superb Doing Documentary Work. "--The
Boston Book Review
"Coles ensures that one will never look at documentary work--no
matter how well done or well meaning--quite the same way
again."--Washington Post Book World
"Journalists, social workers, and therapists, as well as producers
of print or film documentaries, will find this ruminative volume of
special use, reminding them of the questions they should ask
themselves before they invade schools, workplaces, and private
lives."--Kirkus
"Rich with narrative and smart in a warm and accessible way, this
is a book for storytellers of every stripe."--Utne Reader
"Indispensable for students of the documentary."--Booklist
"...passionate ideas and cogent analysis fill the book.--Library
Journal
"A challenging exploration of documentary writing and photography,
focusing on the ways in which researchers can affect, reshape, or
misrepresent what they see...Journalists, social workers, and
therapists, as well as producers of print or film documentaries,
will find this ruminative volume of special use, reminding them of
the questions they should ask themselves before they invade
schools, workplaces, and private lives."--Kirkus Reviews
"The complicated, tightrope dance of the ethical documentarian is
the subject of Robert Coles' superb Doing Documentary Work.... What
is exciting about this book is that Coles, whose intellectual
interest and curiousity are omnivorous, has applied to himself and
his own field the scrutiny that intellectuals frequently only apply
to some `other,' whether that other be a `field' of scholarship or
`natives' nervous about a camera."--David C. Ward, The
Boston Book Review
"Coles ensures that one will never look at documentary work--no
matter how well done or well meaning--quite the same way
again."--Jeanne Fox-Alston, Washington Post Book World
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