Photography
see all genres ›Whether regarded as reportage or as an art form, photography has played an enormous role in history for a very long time (predating the introduction of motion-pictures by roughly seventy-five years). Leading photographers and their work have commonly become subjects for the medium whose creation it paved the way for.
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The Woodmans
The tragic story of Francesca Woodman, a young photographer renowned for her extraordinary self-portraits, is also the story of her brilliantly artistic family. With THE WOODMANS, director C. Scott Willis shows how the struggle for fame in the high-stakes world of art resulted in tragedy and then...Watch Movie
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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life (moviescapes...Watch Movie
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Marwencol
Outside a small bar in Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp was beaten nearly to death, his memories wiped away. Seeking recovery, he builds Marwencol, a miniature World War II-era town filled with doll versions of his friends, fantasies and even his attackers. As he documents the town’s dramas...Watch Movie
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The Rape of Europa
THE RAPE OF EUROPA is an epic journey through seven countries, into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in...Watch Movie
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Don't Blink - Robert Frank
One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, DON'T BLINK is a documentary about Robert Frank, the legendary photographer and filmmaker behind the seminal book "The Americans" and landmark films like "Pull My Daisy" and "C***sucker Blues". Directed by his longtime...Watch Movie
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What Remains
As one of the world's preeminent photographers, Sally Mann creates artwork that challenges viewers' values and moral attitudes. She first came to international prominence in 1992 with "Immediate Family," a series of complex and enigmatic pictures of her own children. This work, and the...Watch Movie
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In No Great Hurry
A fascinating documentary on one of the 20th century's most beloved street photographers, Saul Leiter, is depicted in NO GREAT HURRY. Leiter (contemporary of Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon) could have been celebrated as the great pioneer of color photography long ago (his...Watch Movie
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Ulysse
For ULYSSE, Agnes Varda grants herself the unusual screen credit of cinecrit, but the exercise in question is actually the titular photograph she took on a beach in 1954. She tracks down two of her three former models (the third is a dead goat) to find out if the picture still means as much to...Watch Movie
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The Beat Hotel
1957. The Latin Quarter, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel became a haven for a new breed of artists fleeing the conformity and censorship of America. The hotel soon turned into an epicenter of Beat writing that produced some of the most important works of the Beat generation. It came to be known as...Watch Movie
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Vivian Maier Photographer
Chicago filmmaker Tom Palazzolo turns his lens to film a very different portrait of Vivian Maier, the mysterious Chicago photographer whose work was only discovered posthumously. After her work (developed after years of storage) went viral in 2009, Maier has been the subject...Watch Movie
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George Tice: Seeing Beyond the Moment
Long recognized for his deeply penetrating photographic record of America, George Tice works in the urban tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper and Walker Evans. From his home and studio in New Jersey, Tice shares his life and work spanning six decades and eighteen books...Watch Movie
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Get the Picture
This award-winning documentary recounts the remarkable life of John G. Morris, the revered Life Magazine photo-journalist who was involved in the D-Day Normandy landings. Morris worked alongside many of the greatest names in photography, during some of the most pivotal moments in the 20th...Watch Movie
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Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
In YDESSA, THE BEARS AND ETC., Agnes Varda devotes her attention to curator Ydessa Hendeles' remarkable exhibit "Partners" which opened at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in November of 2002. The show featured works by Maurizio Cattelan, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Wall, Diane Arbus,...Watch Movie
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Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
Celebrated photographer Tierney Gearon's work has been labeled manipulative, and disturbing. A former model and dancer, Gearon came to notorious fame in 2001 when photos of her own naked and masked children in the "I Am a Camera" show at London's Saatchi Gallery had...Watch Movie
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Down Clark Street
Tom Palazzolo's love of Chicago is undeniable. He has spent nearly fifty years documenting the city and the people who call it home. Originally from St. Louis, Palazzolo arrived in the Windy City in 1960 to attend the School of the Art Institute, moving to Clark Street in the...Watch Movie
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Skinningrove
In this intimate and moving film, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Almereyda probes photographer Chris Kilip's memory of a small isolated fishing village, SKINNINGROVE, in Northern England. Killip, a renowned photographer whose work has been exhibited around the world, made several trips to...Watch Movie
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At the Museum
This film, produced during an artist-in-residence at the Oakland Museum in California, is about archiving and documenting culture in the 20th century. AT THE MUSEUM: A PILGRIMAGE OF VANQUISHED OBJECTS explores how all types of archiving, including documentary filmmaking, inevitably creates its...Watch Movie
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War Photographer
The great photojournalist Robert Capa said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." James Nachtwey, a committed, shy man, considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, has been close enough for over 20 years - a period...Watch Movie
