Documenting the Fiction of Reality is concerned with the theoretical and interpretative problems that relate to the function and effectiveness of photographic evidential images and to the ways in which they are perceived and understood within the context of documentary fiction. It examines the role of photographic evidence in a number of documentary fictions and asks how it relies on the fictional to produce an experience that reflects most directly ways of understanding reality and of conceiving historical accuracy. The book aims to describe the impact on reading of the photographic documentation used in a selected number of documentary fictions and to trace its link to issues of rhetorical argumentation, epistemological value, and belief.