Abstract
This article investigates how poverty is negotiated in the documentary mode. By scrutinizing two HBO documentaries, Down and Out in America (1985) and American Winter (2013) in the light of the work of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, I argue that there is a continuous disparity between those who represent and those who are being represented. I will exemplify how this imbalance is facilitated through visual rhetoric and narrative form in documentary representations of poverty.
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