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Saturday, November 29th, 2014

The Visions and Images television series from 1981 was one of the first I ran across on the Internet when I went looking for documentaries. In the half hour show, Barbaralee Diamonstein interviews a short list of heavyweight photographers, one per week, about their work and thought processes and these are all well worth taking the time out to watch on YouTube. For a quiet Sunday afternoon this week you could do a lot worse than lay back on the couch watching five hours of interviews with the likes of Erwitt, Horst or Callahan. Sadly, four episodes of the series never made it onto YouTube, but here’s hoping that someone may eventually get hold of a copy to share. The Visions and Images series also came as a book authored by Barbaralee Diamonstein and Harry Callahan.
- Visions & Images: Duane Michals – 28 mins
- Visions & Images: Harry Callahan – 30 mins
- Visions & Images: Joel Meyerowitz – 30 mins
- Visions & Images: Garry Winogrand – 30 mins
- Visions & Images: Horst P. Horst – 28 mins
- Visions & Images: Frederick Sommer – 28 mins
- Visions & Images: Elliott Erwitt – 29 mins
- Visions & Images: Arnold Newman – 28 mins
- Visions & Images: Barbara Morgan – 29 mins
- Visions & Images: Cornell Capa and Burk Uzzle – 29 mins
- Visions & Images: Andre Kertesz – 0 mins
- Visions & Images: Ray Metzker – 0 mins
- Visions & Images: Aaron Siskind – 0 mins
- Visions & Images: Alfred Eisenstaedt – 0 mins
If you’re interested in more film photography documentaries then you might find value in visiting the Film Photography Documentary List.
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Friday, November 28th, 2014
One of the best video podcasts out there in the photography scene is The Art of Photography from Ted Forbes.
Ted covers photography principles, discussion about art, film processing, specific vintage cameras and offers a number of episodes discussing significant photographers. The list of episodes discussing those photographers is slowly growing and I’ll try to keep these updated as he posts more episodes. Mostly I’ve been aware of the photographers covered in his profiles, but I’ve learned of a few new names and it’s always interesting to hear Ted’s take on their lives and work.
Note that the earlier episodes are shorter and obviously less refined. The later episodes are generally longer and include sponsorship at the beginning and in the middle of the podcast. Just so you’re aware… enjoy.
- The Art of Photography: Robert Frank: The Americans – 6 mins
- The Art of Photography: Dan Winters – 7 mins
- The Art of Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot – 9 mins
- The Art of Photography: Hiroshi Sugimoto – 8 mins
- The Art of Photography: Karl Blossfeldt – 8 mins
- The Art of Photography: Edward J Steichen – 12 mins
- The Art of Photography: Brassai – 9 mins
- The Art of Photography: Richard Avedon – 6 mins
- The Art of Photography: Annie Leibovitz – 10 mins
- The Art of Photography: Sohei Nishino – 12 mins
- The Art of Photography: Keith Carter – 17 mins
- The Art of Photography: August Sander – 15 mins
- The Art of Photography: Diane Arbus – 19 mins
- The Art of Photography: Daan Hansen – 21 mins
- The Art of Photography: Saul Leiter – 21 mins
- The Art of Photography: Fred Herzog – 12 mins
- The Art of Photography: William Eggleston – 21 mins
- The Art of Photography: Gordon Parks – 28 mins
- The Art of Photography: Harry Callahan – 21 mins
- The Art of Photography: Imogen Cunningham – 17 mins
- The Art of Photography: Thurston Hopkins – 14 mins
- The Art of Photography: Sally Mann – 22 mins
- The Art of Photography: Vivian Maier – 22 mins
- The Art of Photography: Raymond Depardon – 19 mins
- The Art of Photography: Julius Shulman – 18 mins
- The Art of Photography: Bruno Barbey – 21 mins
- The Art of Photography: Weegee – 16 mins
- The Art of Photography: André Kertész Polaroids – 15 mins
- The Art of Photography: Wynn Bullock – 15 mins
- The Art of Photography: Garry Winogrand – 8 mins
- The Art of Photography: Dorothea Lange – 17 mins
- The Art of Photography: Josef Sudek – 18 mins
- The Art of Photography: Heinrich Kühn – 23 mins
- The Art of Photography: Fan Ho – 17 mins
- The Art of Photography: Alvin Langdon Coburn – 18 mins
- The Art of Photography: The Mexican Suitcase – 18 mins
- The Art of Photography: Robert Doisneu – 18 mins
- The Art of Photography: Robert Capa – 9 mins
- The Art of Photography: Martin Munkácsi – 21 mins
- The Art of Photography: Harold Feinstein – 13 mins
- The Art of Photography: Josef Koudelka – 21 mins
- The Art of Photography: Paul Strand – 24 mins
- The Art of Photography: Ansel Adams – 26 mins
- The Art of Photography: Arnold Newman – 24 mins
- The Art of Photography: Sebastio Salgado – 17 mins
- The Art of Photography: Michael Kenna – 27 mins
- The Art of Photography: Frank Lopez – 14 mins
- The Art of Photography: Charles Sheeler – 19 mins
- The Art of Photography: Mark Rothko + Hiroshi Sugumoto – 7 mins
- The Art of Photography: Nick Brandt – 14 mins
- The Art of Photography: Tina Modotti – 19 mins
- The Art of Photography: Richard Pousette-Dart – 17 mins
- The Art of Photography: Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) – 8 mins
- The Art of Photography: W. Eugene Smith – 18 mins
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Saturday, May 17th, 2014
Asked to choose my favourite five online photography documentaries I simply had too many favourites. And several of my best choices were no longer available to view. So I put together a fast list from my bookmarks list. I’ve tried to keep only the longer and more value packed video documentaries. You may also enjoy the BBC Master Photographer series from 1983, The Genius of Photography series, the Vogue Masters series, Visions and Images with Barbaralee Diamonstein and The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn from 2007 and the Contacts (Vol 1-3) series. Ted Forbes also covers a lot of notable photographers on The Art of Photography. So, here goes… these documentaries should keep you going for a month or two of film entertainment.
- Edward Weston: The Photographer (1948) – 27 mins
- Remembering Brett Weston (Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3) – 79 mins
- The Weston Story – 33 mins
- Kim Weston Painted Photographs Lecture – 14 mins
- The Woodmans – 82 mins
- Francesca Woodman – 39 mins
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: Just Plain Love – 71 mins
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, Brush & Camera – 49 mins
- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment – 18 mins
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye – 70 mins
- Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (1999) – 83 mins
- J H Lartique (part 1, part 2, part 3 & part 4) – 29 mins
- What Remains: The Life & Work of Sally Mann – 80 mins
David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and no Cheating – 52 mins
- The Real Blow Up: Fame, Fashion & Photography (Part 1, Part 2 & part 3) – 122 mins
- Duffy: The Man who shot the Sixties – 54 mins
- Robert Capa: In Love and War – 84 mins
- Bob Capa Tells of Photographic Experiences Abroad (audio 1947) – 23 mins
- W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5a, part 5b, part 6, part 7, part 8 & part 9) – 90 mins
- The Lost Pictures of Eugene Smith – 38 mins
- The Life & Work of W. Eugene Smith – 79 mins
- Shooting War: World War II Combat Cameramen (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8 & part 9) – 90 mins
- Sebastio Salgado: Looking Back at You (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 & part 6) – 50 mins
- Salgado: Spectre of Hope – 51 mins
- Tina Modotti: Without Walls (part 1, part 2, part 3 & part 4 – 52 mins
Man Ray: The man who invented himself – 39 mins
- Man Ray – 52 mins
- Bob Robinson: Capturing the Norwegians – 10 mins
- Meet Robert A Robinson: Photographer – 29 mins
- Don McCullin: Images of War – 24 mins
- Don McCulllin: Redundant Warrior – 24 mins
- Don McCullin: Seeking the Light – 27 mins
- McCullin (2012) – 91 mins
- Vietnam’s Unseen War – 53 mins
- Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best – 10 mins
- At Home with Elliott Erwitt – 10 mins
- Elliott Erwitt: Photographer – 22 mins
- Searching for Vivian Maier (part 1, part 2 & part 3) – 33 mins
- Vivian Maier: Who took nanny’s pictures? – 68 mins
- Vivian Maier – 12 mins
- Bruce Gilden: Coney Island – 11 mins
- The Greatest Photojournalist: Alfred Eisenstadt – 28 mins
- Harold Feinstein: Photographer, artist, teacher, human being (part 1 & part 2) – 15 mins
- Ansel Adams: Photographer (1958) – 21 mins
- Ansel Adams: Photographer (1981) (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 & part 5) – 59 mins
- Ansel Adams (2002) – 82 mins
- “Mad Photographer” Frank Hurley – 42 mins
- Paul Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 & part 6) – 80 mins
- Richard Avedon: Darkness & Light – 86 mins
- Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge – 100 mins
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank – 28 mins
- Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank (2005) – 49 mins
- Arnold Newman – 40 mins
- The Many Lives of William Klein (2012) – 59 mins
- In Conversation: William Klein – 111 mins
- Moriyama Daido: Near Equal – 84 mins
- Nobuyoshi Araki: Arakimentari – 75 mins
- Naked States – 74 mins
- Joel Meyerowitz: Street Photography (1981) – 57 mins
- Nan Golden: In My Life – 28 mins
- Imagine: The Colourful Mr Eggleston – 47 mins
- William Eggleston in the Real World – 85 mins
- Cindy Sherman: Nobody’s Here but Me (1994) – 55 mins
- Annie Leibovitz (1993) – 50 mins
Jan Saudek – 91 mins
- The World according to Martin Parr – 44 mins
- Half Past Autumn: The Life & Work of Gordon Parkes – 90 mins
- Remembering LIFE – 57 mins
- America in Pictures: The Story of LIFE Magazine – 60 mins
- James Nachtwey: War Photographer – 96 mins
- Yousuf Karsh (part 1, part 2 & part 3) – 26 mins
- The Real Weegee – 56 mins
- Six Photographs: Rennie Burri – 11 mins
- George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography (part 1, part 2 & part 3) – 50 mins
- Picture Perfect: George Eastman House – 27 minutes
- The History of Photography: Beaumont Newhall – 25 mins
- Laura Gilpin: The Enduring Photographer – 25 mins
- Eliot Porter: A Look Back (part 1 & part 2) – 25 mins
- Military Police Photography (1965) – 25 mins
- Eugene and Berenice – 52 mins
- The Lives of Lee Miller – 56 mins
- The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge – 58 mins
- Eve and Marilyn (part 1, part 2 & part 3) – 31 mins
- Tony Vaccaro: World War II Photographer – 17 mins
- George Rose, Stereographs and the Russo Japanese War – 20 mins
- The Lomo Camera: Shoot from the Hip – 59 mins
- Trent Park: Dreamlives (2002) – 25 mins
- Chester Higgins Jr: Capturing the Spirit – 27 mins
- National Geographic: The Last Roll of Kodachrome – 31 mins
- Born into Brothels (2004) – 83 mins
- A Great Day in Harlam: The Photograph (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 & Part 7) – 59 mins
- Rankin: Shooting the Hollywood Stars – 66 mins
- South Africa in Pictures – 60 mins
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters – 77 mins
- Gregory Crewdson: Capturing a Movie Frame – 27 mins
Legends in Light: George Hurrell – 56 mins
- Gursky World – 23 mins
- The History & Science of Color Film – 21 mins
- Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman – 80 mins
Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes – 86 mins
- The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl – 189 mins
- Who Shot Rock and Roll: Akron Art Museum – 27 mins
- The Photography of Bob Gruen (part 1 & part 2)- 56 mins
- Magnum Photos:The Changing of the Myth – 58 mins
- Long Live Film – 47 mins
- Geoff Davies: Photographer – 61 mins
- The Death of Kevin Carter – 27 mins
- Alexander Gardner: War Photographer – 44 mins
- Bob Marley: Giant – 18 mins
- Bert Stern: Original Madman – 88 mins
- Dorothea Lange: An American Odyssey – 38 mins
- The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos – 55 mins
- Eye Candy: The Crazy World of David LaChapelle – 53 mins
- Line of Beauty & Grace: A documentary about Jock Sturges – 57 mins
- One Roll of Film – 18 mins
- BBC Pioneers of Photography (1974) Early Colour – 24 mins
- BBC Pioneers of Photography (1974) The Moving Image – 24 mins
- The REAL BLOW UP (part 1 & part 2) – 92 mins
- Horst Wackerbarth: The Red Couch A Gallery Of Mankind – 45 mins
- Mario Testino: Diana’s favourite photographer – 48 mins
- Get the Picture – 69 minutes
- Anders Petersen at Fine Art Print – 20 mins
- Geoff Davies: Photographer – 61 mins
- Duane Michals talks about his Career – 81 mins
- Self Portrait: Max Vadukul – 51 mins
- Self Portrait: Isabel Ellsen – 49 mins
- Self Portrait: Tomasz Tomaszewski – 52 mins
- John Cato: Between Sunshine and Shadow – 18 mins
- Mark Seliger: State of the Portrait – 102 mins
- Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People – 92 mins
- Photoprofiles: Arthur Tress (part 1 & part 2) – 30 mins
- The Fall of Phnom Penh 1975. A documentary about French photographer Roland Neveu – [37 mins]
- That Man: Peter Berlin – 80 mins
- The Story of Dickey Chappelle, Combat Photojournalist – 56 mins
- Fotograf – 130 mins
- Holy Terror Presents: Joel Peter Witkin [49 mins]
- Holy Terror Presents: Joel Peter Witkin II ‘Vile Bodies’ [17 mins]
- Portrait of Nature – Myriads of Gods on Platinum Palladium Prints [30 mins]
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