Descriptive
ESA/Hubble & NASA, Hubble Unravels a Twisted Cosmic Knot, 2017. 10/20/17, https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-unravels-a-twisted-cosmic-knot
This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows what happens when two galaxies become one. This category main goal is simply to make a record of something, other examples can be medical X-rays or a photo ID.
Explanatory
Harold Edgerton, Gussie Moran Tennis Serve, 1952, gelatin silver print, printed later, 17 3/8 x 14 5/8in. 10/21/17, http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/harold-edgerton-1903-1990-gussie-moran-tennis-5600529-details.aspx
This is an example of explanatory photography because it explains and offers extensive insights of the stages and positions of the tennis player movement.
Interpretive
Anne Collier (American, b. 1970). Cut. 2009. Chromogenic color print, 45 13/16 × 55ʺ (116.4 × 139.7 cm). 10/20/17. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1259?locale=en
Interpretive Photography is open to interpretation; This category is more poetic and photos can be directed or manipulated.
Ethically Evaluative
Mark Riboud, The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet, 21 October 1967, 10/21/17,https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/07/jan-rose-kasmir-anti-vietnam-rally-pentagon
This category tries to produce improvements in society. Riboud photographed Kasmir on 21 October 1967 while taking part with several thousand anti-war activists in the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's March on the Pentagon to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Aesthetically Evaluative
Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1942, Gelatin silver print,15 1/2 in. x 19 1/2 in. 10/20/17, https://akronartmuseum.org/collection/Obj1384?sid=1&x=5635
The main goal of this category is to represent beauty. This photograph by Ansel Adams shows a beautiful landscape of a small village on a plain beneath an expanse of darkened sky. "beautiful things photographed in beautiful ways, nude, landscape, still life.”"(Barrett, pg. 64)
Theoretical
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #425, 2004, Chromogenic color print, 179.7x228 cm, 10/20/17, https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/cindysherman/gallery/9/#/3/untitled-425-2004/z=true
Photography about photography; These comment on art and the making of it. Cindy Sherman is well known for being in this category and her clown series explore the weird monstrous, carnivalesque impulses that are expressed through fairy tales, clowns and black humor.
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