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Photography

Photography

CAREER Q&A: PROFESSIONAL ADVICE AND INSIGHT - CINEMATOGRAPHERS AND DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

What is it like to be a director of photography? In this Career Q&A video interview, Mark Gambol talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in the field. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2016 / 15 minutes

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MORE THAN THE RAINBOW

Director: Dan Wechsler

At the close the of film noir classic The Naked City, the narrator famously proclaims: 'There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.' The film took its title from Weegee's seminal book of New York photographs published in 1945.

In our time, an equally compelling presence roams the streets of New York armed with only a camera: Matt Weber. There is no telling how many stories Weber has attempted to capture since he first started taking pictures out of the window of the cab he used to drive. But his quarter century-plus devotion to candidly depicting the lives of his fellow New Yorkers, many of them from the fringes of society, has yielded an unforgettably beautiful and evocative documentary directed by Dan Wechsler.

Part character study, part meditation on photography, and part exploration of a New York that most of us will never see, More Than the Rainbow combines a visually stunning blend of live action, still photography and revealing interviews. The result is a poetic celebration of the world's greatest city and the individuals who walk its streets.

Featuring Matt Weber, Ralph Gibson, Zoe Strauss, Eric Kroll, Todd Oldham, Dave Beckerman, Ben Lifson and more.

DVD / 2014 / 83 minutes

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AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY?

Will photography survive the 21st century? With the progressive but inevitable disappearance of traditional photography, the question has been asked since the 1980s.

Photographers have responded to the death of a certain type of photography in two ways. Some of them have chosen to return to the past, seeking to re-establish the simplicity of old cameras and practices (photographers such as Daido Moryiama, Rosangela Renno and Michel Campeau).

Others on the contrary, have extended the limits of experimentation, carrying out camera-less photography, making use of today's many resources - such as software, scanners and the Internet - to make images (photographers such as Joan Fontcuberta, Thomas Ruff, and Brandon Lattu).

A third group of photographers is exploring frontiers and crafted solutions, between nostalgia and futurism, in a sort of alternative photography (using Lomography, disposable cameras and Tichy's makeshift cameras).

DVD / 2013 / 26 minutes

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CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Conceptual Photography, which appeared in the 1960s, took up the ancient quarrel between photography and painting, in its own way, totally inversing the terms.

Instead of criticising photography in the name of painting, as had been done in the past, painters (from Andy Warhol to Ed Rucha and Bruce Nauman) used photography to criticise painting, engaging in an outright attack on the notion of "fine-arts" and the elitist character of artistic creation.

To reinvent painting, these painters used the essential characteristics of this photography - its absence of affect, its ease of use and its ability to capture the ephemeral.

DVD / 2013 / 26 minutes

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PHOTOGRAPHING INTIMACY

Photography would appear to be extravert in nature, done to show us reality, the world at large and the "other". But in the eighties, a movement appeared that sought to escape this "objective" vocation, and to transform the camera into a daily logbook, an apparatus of introspection, a personal diary.

The movement was to take on a radical dimension under the impetus of photographers who were sometimes referred to as "diarists".

DVD / 2013 / 26 minutes

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THROUGH A LENS DARKLY

Director: Thomas Allen Harris

The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history by discovering images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost.

Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into lives, experiences and perspectives of black families that is absent from the traditional historical canon. These images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and society and its founding ideals.

Inspired by Deborah Willis's book Reflections in Black and featuring the works of Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, Coco Fusco, Clarissa Sligh and many others, Through a Lens Darkly introduces the viewer to a diverse yet focused community of storytellers who transform singular experiences into a communal journey of discovery - and a call to action.

DVD / 2013 / 92 minutes

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BERT STERN: ORIGINAL MAD MAN

Director: Shannah Laumeister

Bert Stern's photography career began in the mailroom of Look Magazine - where he formed a close relationship with a young staffer named Stanley Kubrick - and quickly took off during the Golden Age of Advertising. Sought after by Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and the fashion world, Stern, like Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, became not just a photographer but a star in his own right. This is a story of self-creation - rise, fall, and reinvention - exploring creativity, celebrity, and desire through the eyes of a man who got everything he wanted. Almost.

DVD-R / 2012 / 87 minutes

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NEW VISION: EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE 1920S

Criticism of the 1920s heralded the arrival of "The New Photographer", which was a typically European phenomenon.

This photographic avant-garde, often politically located on the far-left, was embodied by Moholy-Nagy, Umbo, El Lissitzky and Rodtchenko.

Like Constructivism and Bauhaus, which it was close to, it broke away from the former rules and norms of the "good photography" of professional photographers.

The New Vision was intricately linked to the urban culture it came from, in which high-angle shots, low-angle shots, deliberately imbalanced images, unfamiliar shots, distortion and other treasures glorified the dynamism and modernity of machines and cities.

Experimental in nature, it focused on camera-free images (photograms), photomontages, collages and overprinting. Anything that could revitalize human vision via photography "educated the eye by optical mechanics".

But this experimental utopia did not manage to withstand the major crisis of the 1930s and the rise of totalitarianism regimes, which imposed, both in Germany and the U.S., the return of "good photography", realism and academism.

DVD / 2012 / 26 minutes

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PRIMITIVES OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1850-1960, THE

In the middle of the 19th century, 25 years after its invention, photography is still considered as a simple scientific curiosity.

But between 1850 and 1860 a dozen of photographers, in France and in England, will get in a struggle to get photography acknowledged as an art.

It will be the decade of Nadar, Le Gray, Baldus, Robison, Rejlander, Fenton. They will be the first ones to explore all posibilities of photographical creation and of its relations to reality.

On an original and amusing way, this documentary offers us the " trade secret " of those pioneers of photography that have invented in just a few years a complex photographical grammar through several supports and technics of great diversity.

DVD / 2012 / 26 minutes

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STAGED PHOTOGRAPHY

This episode analyses the main processes in this deconstruction of the "pseudo" truth of photographic language: composition, light, breakdown into narrative scenes, the use of figures, set, accessories and studio work, or on the contrary, the staging of a veritable performance.

For almost the entire 20th century, photography was mainly realist. But from the 1960s, "staged photography" was no longer considered naive or passe, and made a major comeback, enriched by the external influences of film, theatre, performance and sculpture. This photography that was "infused" by other mediums played on the ambiguity of photographic realism.

DVD / 2012 / 26 minutes

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BIOGRAPHIES: PHOTOGRAPHY - THE HOLLYWOOD LENS OF MURRAY GARRETT

This candid biography of master photographer Murray Garrett, whose famous images include Marilyn Monroe, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, offers a rare behind-the-scenes' look at the Golden Era of Hollywood.

DVD / 2009 / (Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult) / 80 minutes

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SURREALIST PHOTOGRAPHY, THE

This documentary offers us, on an original and amusing way, the " trade secret " of the surrealist photography.

Their names are Man Ray, Dora Maar, Alvarez Bravo, Brassai, Andre Kertesz or Henri Cartier-Bresson. They're counting amongst the greatest photographers of the 20th century.

During the 1930's, their images embodied the most intense and lively side of surrealism.

The images are questionned trough animation techniques. They're dismantled, put back together again, brought back into play. Those images are " brought to life ", showing us the choices, the serendipity and their inner strength.

Each photography shown in the film becomes a story on its own, a little photographic drama who's only ending while reaching the finale picture.

The audience gets inside the process, the work on light and frame, the superimposing, solarisation, photomontage and slowly becomes itself part of this intricate game between photography, imagination and reality.

DVD / 2009 / 26 minutes

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DIGITAL IMAGING WITH PHOTOSHOP: PHOTOGRAPHY POST EDITING

Features Robert Barry, a professor of photography at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA and an internationally exhibited photo artist since 1970. Robert has been incorporating digital imaging into his work since the early 90's. Robert will give the viewer his perspective of how Photoshop is used to post edit images for increased visual impact and appeal. Robert stresses that part of learning to do better at Photoshop is learning to "see" better and understand what you can do with the Photoshop tools.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2008 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 30 minutes

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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: JON GRAY'S MASTERCLASS OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1

Photography can be a wonderful hobby or for those more serious minded about taking photos, photography can be an expression of art or a skilled profession. This program was produced to help guide anyone who is interested in taking better photos - especially those who are seeking to use their cameras artistically or professionally. Host Sarah Ollett introduces viewers to Jon Gray, author of the Complete Guide to Beauty & Glamour Photography and Glamour Photography, and one of the world's leading photographers. Throughout the program Jon is assisted by Charles Glendenning; also appearing as models are Rosie, Kathy Austen, Jacqueline Vaughan and Nadia, and the makeup and stylist is Paula Eyers. Jon offers four step-by-step workshops on how to master photography:

Workshop #1: Creative Lighting on Location;
Workshop #2: Product and Beauty Photography;
Workshop #3: Front Cover Beauty Shot in the Studio;
Workshop #4: Difficulties With the Sun on Location.

His expert tips include how to deal with creating atmosphere, dramatic composition, beauty and product, shooting by candlelight, shooting in the mid-day sun and setting up a studio for a shoot.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2008 / (College, Adult) / 30 minutes

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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: JON GRAY'S MASTERCLASS OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2

Photography can be a wonderful hobby or for those more serious minded about taking photos, photography can be an expression of art or a skilled profession. This program was produced to help guide anyone who is interested in taking better photos - especially those who are seeking to use their cameras artistically or professionally. Host Sarah Ollett introduces viewers to Jon Gray, author of the Complete Guide to Beauty & Glamour Photography and Glamour Photography, and one of the world's leading photographers. Throughout the program Jon is assisted by Charles Glendenning; also appearing as models are Rosie, Kathy Austen, Jacqueline Vaughan and Nadia, and the makeup and stylist is Paula Eyers. Jon offers four step-by-step workshops on how to master photography:

Workshop #1: Creative Lighting on Location;
Workshop #2: Product and Beauty Photography;
Workshop #3: Front Cover Beauty Shot in the Studio;
Workshop #4: Difficulties With the Sun on Location.

His expert tips include how to deal with creating atmosphere, dramatic composition, beauty and product, shooting by candlelight, shooting in the mid-day sun and setting up a studio for a shoot.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2008 / (College, Adult) / 30 minutes

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BIOGRAPHIES: PHOTOGRAPHY - ARTHUR GRIFFIN: IN FOCUS - A CELEBRATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY

A celebratory documentary on the legendary photographer Arthur Griffin, even more significant because New England's "Photographer Laureate" passed away just months after the celebration of his 97th birthday. Featuring his good friend, author John Updike, this program brings the wide range of work by this incredible artist into focus; also we discover the Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art, which houses the legacy of the photojournalist, a collection of over 75,000 items of his trade and life.

DVD / 2007 / (Junior High, Senior High, College, Adult) / 30 minutes

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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER: THE STUDIO

John Forte has over 20 years experience working as a commercial photographer with clients that include Revlon, Avon and Hilton Hotels. In this program he shares his "Success Secrets of Professional Photography," offering what one needs to know to either succeed as a professional fashion photographer or to pursue photography as a serious hobby; also he takes viewers behind the scenes for an educational look at the successful photographer's world, including exciting photo shoots with models from several top agencies.

DVD / 2007 / (Senior High, College, Adult) / 60 minutes

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BASIC BLUE SCREEN & GREEN SCREEN PHOTOGRAPHY PLUS

Learn the art and science of Blue Screen and Green Screen photography from special effects veteran and Academy Award Winner Peter Kuran. Whether you want to shoot your own Blue and Green Screen to composite or just familiarize yourself with the terms and techniques, this informative tutorial takes you behind the scenes to learn.

DVD / 2006 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 30 minutes

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PHOTOGRAPHER, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER, THE

By Paul Yule

O. Winston Link (1914-2001) was one of America's most exceptional photographic artists. His meticulously composed, nighttime images, made primarily during the Fifties, celebrate the last days of steam railroading in this country and today are widely regarded as icons of 20th Century Americana.

Public recognition of Link's unique talent came late in his life, however, when more than forty years later books of his photos were published. Today there is an O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virginia - the only museum devoted to the work of a single photographer - and his original prints sell for thousands of dollars to collectors, while railroad and photography buffs can purchase O. Winston Link postcards and calendars.

Behind this success story, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER reveals a bizarre tale of deceit, lies, lust and greed, one involving the adultery of Link's much younger wife and business manager, Conchita, and her imprisonment for embezzling his wealth and stealing more than a thousand of his original prints.

In addition to many of Link's best-known photographic images, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER features interviews with O. Winston Link, his former wife, Conchita, her lover Edward Hayes, Link's younger brother, his son, photo dealers, the Link Museum director, and attorneys involved in the criminal prosecution. Ambiguities and uncertainties abound, however, as we hear the conflicting but seemingly credible accounts of the protagonists. Was this a case of a younger wife who cheated, sexually and financially, on her old, sick husband or that of a scorned wife who was disinherited by a vengeful and physically abusive husband?

THE PHOTOGRAPHER, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER is finally a story about the loss of innocence. As a compelling account of the lurid background to one of the great art scandals of modern times, it dramatizes the contrast between what Link's extraordinary photos represent - especially the nostalgia for an idyllic but long-vanished American experience - and the venality and criminality that these now highly-prized photos generated.

DVD (Color) / 2005 / 79 minutes

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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER

By Irina Gedrovich

As a young man in Germany during the Thirties, Gerhard M. was an amateur photographer who preserved his work in a photo album. In 1941, when he was sent to the Eastern Front as a German soldier, he took along a camera to record his combat experiences in the Soviet Union.

Based on his wartime diary and photo album, AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER recounts Gerhard M.'s experiences with his unit, which was engaged in "retaliatory measures in captured areas." Eager to document his wartime exploits, Gerhard took numerous photos, including both quickly-recorded snapshots and carefully composed portraits His subjects included fellow soldiers, Soviet prisoners and other civilian victims of the war, the Germany army's expropriation of livestock and other food supplies from the local populace, and a temporary leave spent happily in Berlin with his fiancee.

After the war, as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic and a dues-paying member of the Soviet-German Friendship Society, Gerhard M. came to regret his enthusiasm for photography. The discovery by East German Communist authorities of his incriminating diary and photo album, replete with horrific images of executions and other atrocities, no longer regarded as personal souvenirs but as legal evidence, led to Gerhard M.'s conviction by a Soviet court and his execution by firing squad in 1952.

DVD (Color / Black and White) / 2004 / 26 minutes

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BASIC 35MM PHOTOGRAPHY

This instructional program begins with the basic question of which camera is best for a given situation. It introduces the standard parts of a 35mm camera and discusses its most common accessories. Lighting variables are examined.

Learning Objectives:
1) To provide the student with fundamental knowledge about cameras and to discuss the selection of equipment
2) To educate the student about the importance of light to good photography.
3) To give the student helpful tips for taking the best picture possible.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 6-12) / 81 minutes

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

This program provides a brief introduction to digital photography as well as illustrates some of the basic differences between digital photography and film photography. Students will be be introduced to various types of digital cameras and storage mediums, and elements such as resolution size, framing, and file formats will be discussed. Methods for transferring the digital images from the camera to a computer will also be illustrated. A brief overview of image manipulation software programs, primarily Adobe Photoshop, will also be provided. Key vocabulary words such as 'pixel,' 'resolution,' 'autofocus,' and more will be introduced throughout the program.

Learning Objectives:
1) Students will learn what digital photography is and they will see how it differs from traditional photography.
2) Students will understand how one digital camera can differ from another.
3) Students will learn about pixels and resolution, and they'll see how photographs can be manipulated by using computer programs.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 7-12) / 20 minutes

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PHOTOGRAPHY HINTS AND TIPS

Visit the studio of a professional photographer and see whether or not this is a career path that you would like to follow.

Learning Objectives:
1) Students will learn about how one trains to become a photographer.
2) Students will learn how photographers find assignments.
3) Students will listen, as a photographer talks about his career.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 6-12) / 13 minutes

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UNDERSTANDING LIGHTING FOR VIDEO, FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Ideal for video field production, film and photography courses. This fast-paced program covers the importance of light for quality images in any medium. Includes dozens of creative tips for using natural light, existing interior light, standard lighting fixtures and professional lighting equipment. Also covers the use of gels, reflectors, filters, and other tools to create interesting images and programs.

DVD / 2004 / (Grades 9-Adult) / 20 minutes

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ADVENTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Conceived as an introspective journey that takes you from the first daguerreotypes to war photojournalism, from fashion spreads to the greatest contemporary artists, this program includes 1700 pictures, 300 artists, and will appeal to all photographers - amateur and professional alike. This is not only the history of an amazing art form, it is also the adventure of one century and a half during which photography has captured the image of the collective conscience.

Over four hours long, this trip is as dazzling as it is moving, where one crosses paths with such celebrated photographers as Ansel Adams, Brassai, Lewis Carroll, Robert Doisneau, George Eastman, Max Ernst, Roger Fenton, Eadweard Muybridge, Helmut Newton, Nicephore Niepce, Man Ray, Edward J. Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herb Ritts, and many more.

Disc one includes: The Precursors, The Surrealists, War Photography, Portraitists, The Photoreporters, and Fashion Photography.

Disc two includes: Nudes, Photography and Science, Amateur Photography, and The Photographic Market.

2 DVDs (Region 1, Color) / 2003 / 260 minutes

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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

Director: Christian Frei

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." - Robert Capa
War photographer James Nachtwey has been close enough for twenty years. Over this time he hasn't missed a single war. And he probably has seen more suffering and dying than anyone else alive. For War Photographer, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Christian Frei followed Nachtwey for two years into the wars in Indonesia, Kosovo, and Palestine, as well as to other troubled areas around the world.

If we believe Hollywood pictures, war photographers are all hard-boiled and cynical old troopers. How can they think about 'exposure time' at the very moment of dread? But James Nachtwey is no rumbling swaggerer. He is an unobtrusive man, with grey hair and the deliberation of a professor of philosophy. A thoughtful, rather shy person - who many think of as the bravest and best war photographer ever.

Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Hans-Hermann Klare of Stern Magazine and many other friends and colleagues of Nachtwey talk about his photos, his relationship to his work, and the impact it has on his personal life. And many of his most powerful images are shown in the film.

Finally, and most amazingly, in War Photographer special video micro-cameras are attached to Nachtwey's still camera. We hear every breath of the photographer. We participate in the act of shooting war photos. And for the first time in the history of movies about photographers, this technique allows us the most intimate insight into the work of a concerned photojournalist.

DVD (English and German) / 2001 / 96 minutes

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ROY DECARAVA

By Carroll Parrot Blue

"It starts before you snap the shutter... It starts with your sense of what's important." These are the words of Roy DeCarava, one of the foremost photographic artists of the twentieth century, contributor to the Family of Man exhibit and the first black photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. These are the words of a man who focuses his lens, sensitivities and conscience on the life, tempo and sensibilities of black people and the contemporary urban environment.

CONVERSATIONS WITH ROY DECARAVA examines his life and work, and features appearances by internationally noted photographer Ansel Adams, photography critic A.D. Coleman, and the executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell. It deftly interweaves 108 of DeCarava's black and white stills with a portrait of the artist discussing his life, past struggles, his efforts to foster young black photographers, and the relationship of his work to the black experience in America. DeCarava's unforgettable images have immortalized the jazz world through his photographs of contemporaries Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Roy Haynes and others.

DeCarava's vision depicts a world of contrasts; a people of power and delicacy, strength and resilience. It's a private vision, publicly expressed through his words, life and work.

DVD (Color, With Study Guide) / 1984 / 28 minutes

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W. EUGENE SMITH: PHOTOGRAPHY MADE DIFFICULT

The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village--all were captured in unforgettable photographs by the legendary W. Eugene Smith.

This program showcases over 600 of Smith's stunning photographs and includes a dramatic recreation in which actor Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey, Local Hero) portrays the artist using dialogue taken from Smith's diaries and letters. Interwoven through the program are archival footage and interviews with family and friends of this brilliant, complicated man, whose work developed from twin themes of common humanity and social responsibility.

DVD (Region 1, Color) / 87 minutes

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