Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers

Butler Films

Beginning in 1935, a group of New Deal–sponsored photographers roamed the American landscape, capturing the human face of the Great Depression. This film tells the story of the mammoth project, supervised by Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration and later made part of the Office of War Information. Viewers will encounter the poignant, iconic images and personal challenges of photographers Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, and other visionaries. Interviews with Parks, Louise Rosskam, and Bernarda Shahn—wife of painter and photographer Ben Shahn—shed light on a period in which artistic innovation formed a response to social and economic despair. (56 minutes)

Photographic Storytelling

San Mateo County Community College District

This program examines how photographers work with images to communicate stories and ideas and how viewers interpret those images. Message manipulation deriving from point of view, context, editing, superimposing, cropping, recoloring, and captioning are discussed. In addition, selective perception-seeing pictures through the filters of values and prejudices-is studied. Commentary is provided by Doug Nickel, curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Joel Slayton, of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University; Shanto Iyengar, director of the Political Communication Lab at Stanford University; and others. (27 minutes)

Portraits and Snapshots

San Mateo County Community College District

Since the Civil War, portrait and snapshot photography have provided a visual history of life-and transformed society. This program explores how professional and amateur photographers capture the essence of people while considering the intensely personal nature of portraits and snapshots, their use as means of self-exploration and cultural narrative, and concerns involving their commodification and decontextualization. Commentary is provided by photographers Michael Collopy, Dale Kistemaker, Larry Sultan, Catherine Wagner, Richard Barnes, and Ed Kashi. (27 minutes)

The Hungry Eye: Walker Evans

NewsHour Productions

The stark, deceptively simple photographs of Walker Evans have become a part of America's collective memory, forever capturing the places and faces of times long gone. In this program, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez outlines Evans' life while talking with Jeff Rosenheim, curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Evans' close friend William Christenberry, about the late photographer's approach to his art, his collaboration with writer James Agee on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, his love of advertising signage, and other topics. (15 minutes)

Stryker's America: Photographing the Great Depression

Justin Schauble

Roy E. Stryker headed the Historical Division of the Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1943. This program tells the story of how Stryker, a low-level federal bureaucrat with integrity and vision, managed a massive New Deal project to document the Great Depression. These photos-nearly 200,000 by both established and aspiring photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, and many others-became the defining statement of the era. Many signature images of poverty and hardship are included. Narrated by Beverly Brannan, curator of photography at the Library of Congress; Alan Fern, retired director of the National Portrait Gallery; and Peter Kuznick, professor of history at American University. (23 minutes)

Press Usage: Photo

ARTE France

The alliance of photography with the popular press led to an era of creativity in the medium in the 1930s, with eye-catching layouts replacing the traditional rectangular photo format. But before long press photography took on a potent life of its own. The men and women behind the camera became special witnesses to current events and through newspaper reporting were able to pass their visions on to the wider world. Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” made an impact as soon as it was published, as did Walker Evans’ evocative series on Alabama sharecroppers and images by Weegee, Robert Capa, and Brassaï. This program profiles these and other 20th-century photojournalists, with a special look at Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “The People of Moscow,” Josef Koudelka’s photos of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and Richard Avedon’s portraits for Rolling Stone. A part of the series Photo . (26 minutes)

After Photography? Photo

ARTE France

Does the decline of the darkroom mean the end of “real” photography? This program profiles contemporary artists who use a variety of methods to create photographs, from the analog-only lomographers to those who employ the computer as a camera. Adaptation of traditional techniques is seen in works by Frederic Lebain, who prefers an old Instamatic; Vera Lutter, who built a room-sized camera obscura; and in Christian Marclay’s homage to 19th-century cyanotypes. The video also examines the many ways in which photographers have embraced digital technology, such as Heather Dewey-Haborg’s “photo sculptures” based on DNA; Joan Fontcuberta’s “Googlegrams,” mosaics of thousands of images culled from the Internet; and Oleg Dou’s eerie portraits of children who look more online-avatar than human. Also covers Andreas Gursky, Beata Gutschow, Loretta Lux, Thomas Friedman, Thomas Ruff, and Jules Spinatsch. A part of the series Photo. (26 minutes)

Cartier-Bresson’s Century

WINDROSE

Few have revolutionized photography as much as French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has. The father of modern photojournalism contributed spreading the "street photography" or "life reportage", a style that influenced generations of photographers. In this documentary, he narrates the crucial moments of his life, such as his meeting with Gandhi, while his shots illustrate his work. Portions with English subtitles.

Fridays At The Farm

Green Planet Films

Feeling disconnected from their food, a filmmaker and his family decide to join a local community supported organic farm. As he photographs the growing process, the filmmaker moves from passive observer to active participant in the planting and harvesting of vegetables. Featuring lush time-lapse and macro photography sequences compiled from nearly 20,000 still images, this personal essay is a father’s meditation on his blossoming family and community.

Time Limits

ORF

We perceive time in terms of seconds, the length of a heartbeat. Time Limits uses a combination of computer animation, real time images, and the latest science to provide a new view of our world and our universe. Specially developed motion-control time-lapse photography will bring to life the slow motion world of plants and the beautiful play of day and night. As the journey continues we experience shorter timescales to find elements that exist for less than a millionth of a second. Join the team that made Limits of Perception on a fascinating journey to the limits of time. (50 minutes)

Portraits: How to Take Stunning Photos

Carlton International Media

Celebrity photographer Harry Borden has photographed everyone from Robin Williams and Angelina Jolie to Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. In this inspiring program, Borden shares cool camera secrets with two aspiring photographers in a master class that shows how to turn snapshots of friends and family into professional-looking portraits. The students are then put to the test with assignments that include producing a heroic portrait for the charity Help for Heroes. Topics include separation of subject and background, finding unusual angles, creating painterly effects, evoking emotions, telling a story, and more. Part of the series How to Take Stunning Photos. (23 minutes)

Landscape: How to Take Stunning Photos

Carlton International Media

Shooting a stunning landscape should be easy, right? Just find a beautiful location, let nature do its thing, and press the shutter. But if it’s really that simple, why do the vast majority of amateur-shot vistas never come out the way they're supposed to? In this program, renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite shares his secrets of how to capture a stunning panorama with two beginners who long to escape city life for weekends in the wild. Topics include searching for unusual perspectives, finding a focal point, creating depth with foreground objects, choosing a shot based on design elements (color, texture, lines, etc.) instead of literal subject matter, and more. Part of the series How to Take Stunning Photos. (24 minutes)

Shedding Light on Curved Mirrors

Liacos Educational Media

Most of us have experienced the amusement (and possible embarrassment) that goes with standing in front of a distorted funhouse mirror. What many people don’t realize is that convex and concave mirrors are actually quite useful. Beginning with a basic discussion of reflection in flat mirrors, this video shows how curved mirrors are used in a wide variety of industrial and safety-related applications. Viewers learn how convex mirrors are important tools in automobile driving, traffic management, and security due to their outwardly curved surfaces…and likewise, how concave mirrors produce images and how concave reflectors are incorporated into designs for headlights, satellite dishes, solar cookers, and more. The concept of angle of incidence is discussed in detail. As a departure point for more advanced subjects like linear curved reflectors and parabolic reflectors, this is a helpful and entertaining primer. (48 minutes)

Territories: A Profile of Photographer Larry Towell

Filmoption International

A giant in the world of documentary photography, Larry Towell has garnered several top-level honors, including the 2005 Priz Nadar and the first Henri Cartier-Bresson Award. This program follows Towell as he uses his camera to confront foreboding landscapes and shed light on struggling communities—drawing parallels between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. Towell also reflects on the creative process, offers insight into the photojournalist’s trade, and describes his experiences as an eyewitness to the 9/11 attack on New York City. His thoughtful commentary accompanies numerous examples of his work. (53 minutes)

World of Ideas: Susan Sontag

Doctoroff Media Group

The late Susan Sontag was not a photographer, yet her famous book On Photography is required reading in almost every serious photography course in the world. Her novels and nonfiction books such as Illness as a Metaphor have been translated into a score of languages. And she also wrote and directed films and plays. In this program, the renowned writer and human rights activist talks with Bill Moyers about Regarding the Pain of Others, her book on war and how the images of war affect people's perception of reality, and other aspects of her life and career. (49 minutes)

Architectural Techniques

Filmoption International

Like other technologies, architecture has changed across the centuries. The discovery of new materials, the understanding of physical principles, and the development of new construction techniques have permitted architects to extend the boundaries of the possible. This program demonstrates some of the basic architectural techniques, such as the arch and the use of beams; shows how lasers and photography are used in conjunction with traditional techniques to preserve endangered monuments; and reveals innovative uses of textiles in an architectural context. (23 minutes)

Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers

HBO

Directed and produced by award-winning photographer/filmmaker Neil Leifer, this 31-minute documentary demonstrates, through an extreme example, how creative people with disabilities are transcending their limitations to create art. The subjects in Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers have been drawn to photography for different reasons, whether to create an image for the sighted world that they hold in their mind, or to capture an image experienced through nature (as is the case for one legally-blind scuba diver). As we see, each artist displays a drive and passion to create, and views the medium of photography as an opportunity rather than impossibility. Several professional, sighted photographers are interviewed by Leifer in the film; though each is initially skeptical about the ability of a blind person to take effective photos, they are all eventually swayed by the zeal and brio with which these artists work. An HBO Production. 

Kodak

Limonero Films

It was a household brand with profits in the millions, but in 2005 Kodak filed for bankruptcy—so what went so horribly wrong? Inside The Storm: Lessons from the Boardroom interviews the people directly involved, uncovering the decisions and the mistakes that led to the collapse of the iconic company.

Lana Slezic: Snapshot: The Art of Photography

Sound Venture

From Oakville, but with a passion for action and travel, Lana's work includes stunning portraits of Afghanistan women. She arrived in Kabul on assignment expecting to stay a month, instead she stayed on for one year. She now lives in India where she continues to explore human nature through her lens. For Snapshot, Slezic will shoot on assignment in New Delhi for Maclean's Magazine and Canadian Geographic.

Curious Creatives

CNN

African artists combine creativity and imagination, inspiring great artistic expression.

Artistic Revolutionaries

CNN

We discover three artistic pioneers, each with an intriguing double life that allowed them to break the mold and revolutionise the world of art.

Anne Geddes: Photographer

Prime Entertainment Group

Anne Geddes is an Australian photographer who specializes in photographing newborns. After a difficult childhood on a cattle farm, she dropped out of school at 17. Later, she married and moved to Hong Kong for her husband’s work. There she taught herself photography and built up a small portfolio. Back in Australia, she started her own studio from her garage. In this program, we learn about her love of babies, what she thought was wrong about traditional baby photography, and what she considers the most important element in an image: the emotional content.

Timelapse

MZed

In this episode Philip demystifies timelapse shots. He steps us through the equipment as well as his tips and techniques for of all styles—short, long, day-to-night and astro timelapse—and gives an understanding of how he uses this visual technique to enhance a story.

Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark - Part 1

PBS

Join Joel Sartore as he travels to Madagascar and the Florida Keys on his mission to photograph beautiful and endangered animals for the Photo Ark. In Florida, he checks in on the Key Deer, a species that he first saw 20 years ago.

Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark - Part 3

PBS

Travel with photographer Joel Sartore as he adds vibrant insects to his Photo Ark collection and searches for larger animals in Budapest and Prague. Joel also tags along on a Rowi kiwi egg rescue in New Zealand.

Citizen Khan

Terranoa

Born in 1860, Albert Khan made a name for himself as a banker, philanthropist and pacifist. His life and vision reflect on the utopia and humanistic beliefs of the first half of the 20th Century. Discover the man behind the richest collection of the first color photographs (Autochrome) captured between 1909 and 1931, documenting the world’s diversity and portraying people and arts from around the world. A priceless treasure which has fueled the imagination of generations of travelers and filmmakers.

Willard Van Dyke

Lightborne Communications, Inc.

The founder of the Group f/64, Van Dyke talks in this interview about Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Imogen Cunningham. He also explains the influence that Dorothea Lang had on his work. This interview also includes a dialogue between Van Dyke and Ralph Steiner.

Introduction and Equipment

MZed

Bob Davis begins the series by introducing lighting with speedlites and giving an overview of what's inside his typical gear kit for a shoot.

Couples

MZed

Shooting couple portraits can result in some of the most powerful and memorable images, but come with their own unique challenges. In this episode Clay shares with us his complete techniques for getting the best results when shooting couples.

Hanson Fong on Group Portraits

MZed

Closing out the series, we return to the studio of Hanson Fong to discuss the best approaches to family and group portraits. Then Clay sits down with Sandy Puc to discuss her charity and what keeps her motivated.

Live Demo I - Posing

MZed

In the first live demonstration of the series, Jerry Ghionis completely breaks down his approach to posing, providing invaluable guidance throughout for how to communicate with your subjects.

Live Demo III - Tips and Tricks to Wow!

MZed

In this episode Jerry Ghionis continues to shoot in a range of scenarios, showing a variety of tips and tricks to get amazing and dynamic portraits.

Think Differently

MZed

In this episode Jerry Ghionis encourages us to have more fun when shooting, showing us a range of highlights from his portfolio and archives, and showing how he broke the conventional rules to get amazing results.

Model Portraits In-Studio

MZed

In this episode, Stephen Eastwood demonstrates the use of speedlites during a beauty shoot with various models and poses.

Andreas Gursky - Long Shot Close Up

Autentic Distribution GmbH

This is a unique portrayal of artist Andreas Gursky and one of his most popular works, Hamm Bergwerk Ost. It follows the image’s journey—from conception, to construction, to contraction and to reaction—until it found its home in a worthy collection, which holds many of its “siblings”: the private collection of one of the wealthiest men in the Ukraine, Victor Pinchuk. Pinchuk later revealed his personal connection to the piece.

Episode 6: Paradise on Earth (Civilizations)

PBS

This episode explores how cultures have depicted the natural world in landscape painting throughout history. We investigate the way that landscape painting is created as a response to the world around us, exploring such ideas as paradise, identity and the depiction of the vastness of nature to oppositional to industrialization. We explore landscape photography, from Ansel Adams’ majestic depictions of Yosemite, to modern photography and a new kind of landscape which explores the cosmic sublime.

Photography

CNN

Three Rwandan men, orphaned by unspeakable horrors, used photography to help heal their wounds; Kenyan Thandiwe Muriu uses her unique eye to change perceptions of African beauty.

The Man Who Shot New York

TVF International

The Man Who Shot New York explores the life and work of one of America’s master photographers, Harold Feinstein. In his 2015 obituary, the New York Times declared him “one of the most accomplished recorders of the American experience.” Howard Greenberg says Feinstein “occupies high ground in the pantheon of street photography” yet, most people have never heard of him. Feinstein photographed life in all its forms, when and where he wished. His 35mm black and white photographs captured the essence of life with a humanist eye. The re-discovery of Feinstein’s vast and diverse body of work came in his final years and the film meets him then; in his early 80s and with a Zen-like appreciation for the life he lived. A renowned teacher and spiritual guide with a hedonistic appetite for life, Feinstein is remembered as a guru as well as an artist. With unrestricted access to his archive, much of it unseen before, the film shows how Feinstein’s unique outlook on life was reflected in his life-affirming photography.

Portraits and Dreams

PBS

Portraits and Dreams revisits the photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s.The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers, the lives they have made since then and the passage of time.

Romano Cagnoni: War Photographer

Off the Fence

Romano Cagnoni was an international, award-winning photographer, known as one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. His photographs have been featured on the cover and front page of nearly every significant news magazine and paper in Europe and the United States. He is most known for his documentary work of the wars and conflicts around the globe and this is his last interview.

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

HBO

For decades, trailblazing photographer Gordon Parks brought the human struggle of the Black community out of the shadows and onto the pages of LIFE magazine. This documentary explores Parks' enduring legacy through the lens of three contemporary photographers, and spotlights his visionary work and its impact on the next generation of artists.

Episode 2: On the Road (Icon: Music Through the Lens)

PBS

Live music photography has provided some of its most visually striking and era-defining imagery. Hear first-hand recollections and eye-opening stories from early trailblazers and those still devoted to capturing the magic of live music.

Episode 3: On the Record (Icon: Music Through the Lens)

PBS

The evolution of record sleeve photography from its early roots to the modern-day music genres is discussed by art directors, musicians and the music photographers responsible for some of the world’s most iconic album covers.

Episode 4: On the Cover (Icon: Music Through the Lens)

PBS

Music magazines played a pivotal role in elevating music photography to iconic status. Hear the uncensored and often unheard stories behind these amazing photographs alongside the enduring appeal and importance of the printed page.

Episode 5: On the Wall (Icon: Music Through the Lens)

PBS

Examine the transition of music photography from a niche pastime to a highly collectable art form. Take a look at the relationship between art and commerce, and trace the journey from low-paid assignments up through gallery exhibitions.

Captured Light: The Invention of Still Photography (Modern Marvels)

Modern Marvels

The development of the still camera was one of the most significant advances of the age of invention. The captured image has transformed the way we see our world, preserving moments forever with the push of a button. Modern Marvels presents the strange saga of the birth of photography, and the men at the heart of this tale. See how Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce was the first to succeed in photographing an image in 1826, but his work was co-opted after his death by the artist and showman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. The Daguerreotype became popular, and Daguerre claimed the credit for himself, never recognizing the work of his former partner. Trace the story of Englishman William Henry Fox Talbot, who invented the negative-positive process that is still used today. And see how George Eastman brought photography to the masses with his affordable, easy to use cameras. With expert interviews and incredible images from the early days of photography including Matthew Brady's legendary images of the Civil War. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. (45 minutes)

Celebrations: How to Take Stunning Photos

Carlton International Media

When it comes to weddings, what's the best way to photograph a bride? How do you get the best shots of the first dance? Capturing the special moments of the big day is a stressful job even for professional photographers. What about when you don't even know what an f-stop is? How would you cope when asked to shoot a really large event? In this program, award-winning wedding photographer Emily Quinton shares her tricks of the trade, putting two eager amateurs through a crash course at one of Britain's top wedding venues. Topics include diffusing a harsh flash, using a bounce card, backlighting a subject, experimenting with focus, and more. Part of the series How to Take Stunning Photos. (23 minutes)

The Pencil of Nature

HTV

The wonderful invention of Daguerre and Fox Talbot fascinated the Victorians as a new art form and a new way of looking at the world. This program follows the technical and esthetic strides made by the early, often amateur, practitioners. Material is drawn from the British Royal Archives at Windsor Castle; The Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea; from the early photographlc societies; The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, Bath; Norwich Photographic Society; and from the first museum to embrace the new medium, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. (26 minutes)

Domestic Memories

HTV

This program is about how people reflect their own reality, both in the formal photographs for which they pose and those which they themselves take. The amateur documentary tradition is seen through the eyes of two photographers from northern Britain, Jack Hulme and Jimmy Forsyth. Other collections featured are: The Kodak Collection; National Museum of Television, Film and Photography, Bradford; and the Documentary Photographic Archive, Manchester. (26 minutes)

The Real Thing

HTV

This program looks at the results achieved when photographers were commissioned to reflect the world or certain aspects of it. It focuses on the Farm Security Administration (whose archives are held by the Library of Congress, Washington) which set out to document America in the 1930s. The program also visits the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, where photography forms an integral part of the collection; Chris Killip, winner of the 1989 Cartier-Bresson Award, who was commissioned to make a photographic record of a new Pirelli Tire factory in Ohio; and Clement Cooper, seen photographing the area in industrial northern England where he grew up. (26 minutes)

The Magic Mirror

HTV

Using only the words of some of the great photographers, this program seeks to trace "the life-line of the species" (in the words of John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art, New York). Selecting their own favorite photos from contemporary works back to 1839, the producers of this program trace the lineage of photography as art and present a glorious parade of great photographs drawn from the great museum collections of the world: the Musee d'Orsay, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, Bath. (26 minutes)

Decoding Photographic Images

San Mateo County Community College District

When setting up a shot, a photographer works with composition, lighting, and color to create a subliminal subtext that reinforces or even carries the meaning of his or her subject. This program illustrates how basic components of photography-line, shape, form, texture, balance, volume duality, point of view, depth of field, and perspective-contribute to an image's impact on the subconscious mind. Commentary is provided by Herb Zettl, author of the seminal Sight Sound Motion, and photographers Jo Whaley, Stephen Johnson, Larry Sultan, and Catherine Wagner. (27 minutes)

Photography: Making Art and Recording Life

San Mateo County Community College District

Once strictly considered a visual recording device, the camera has expanded beyond its documentational niche and made places for itself in the worlds of fine art, advertising, and news media as well. This program describes existing and emerging genres in the photographic arts, including documentary photography, portraiture, still life, commercial photography, and photojournalism. Commentary is provided by Steve Luker, formerly a creative director with ad agency Publicis & Hal Riney, and photographers Larry Sultan, Ed Kashi, Richard Barnes, Jo Whaley, Dale Kistemaker, and Catherine Wagner. (27 minutes)

Persuasion, Propaganda, and Photography

San Mateo County Community College District

This program addresses the emotionally manipulative power of photography by illustrating how commercial advertising has created an obsession with youth and physical perfection and can exploit viewers' fascinations with celebrity, sexuality, and violence. The video also demonstrates how photogenic people who adroitly use the visual media have come to dominate the political scene. Commentary is provided by Steve Luker, formerly a creative director with Publicis & Hal Riney; Shanto Iyengar, director of the Political Communication Lab at Stanford University; museum educator Julia Brashares; and others. (27 minutes)

Cell Duplication: Growth and Change

Goldcrest Films

This program uses the fascinating setting of a circus to provide the analogy for growth. A magician creating the illusion of multiplying balls introduces micro-photography showing how cells divide and multiply. The program shows how bones are continually being built and destroyed and, in a spectacular sequence of time-lapse photography, actually captures a tooth growing-from the moment it first peeps out of the gum until it falls out. (26 minutes)

Hockney on Photography

Wavelength Pictures

The career of one of Britain’s greatest painters tells us as much about his skill with a camera as his facility with a brush. In this program, David Hockney invites viewers on a journey of discovery that traces the evolution of his photographic work—from his initial experiments in the 1970s through the high point of his photo collage period, exemplified in Nude, featuring Theresa Russell, and another crowning achievement, Pearblossom Highway. The film was produced with unprecedented access not only to the artist himself but to his huge photographic archive, much of which has never been shown publicly. Hockney’s use of photography in related media, such as drawing, painting, fax art, and photocopying, is also explored in detail. (52 minutes)

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Art of Gordon Parks

NewsHour Productions

In this PBS NewsHour report, 85-year-old Gordon Parks discusses his multifaceted, lifelong career in the arts. Best known, perhaps, for his photography, Mr. Parks has documented the plight of the poor as a photojournalist with Life magazine, the lives of the famous, and the looks of the fashion elite. A distinguished film director, poet, author, composer, and digital art pioneer as well, Gordon Parks has spent his life getting to know the world one person at a time. Yet in a career spanning more than 50 years and packed with noteworthy accomplishments, Mr. Parks feels that his best works are still to be done. (12 minutes)

Magic of the Image: Photography Revealed

ARTE France

This elegant program artistically unfolds the history of photography, including the contributions of Joseph Niepce, Louis Daguerre, Fox Talbot, and the Lumieres, with an emphasis on the processes involved in creating photographs. The chemistry of modern film development is described in detail, using computer imaging to illustrate the mechanics of the exposure and development processes. In addition, the recently rediscovered Niepce process is demonstrated for the first time on film, along with the daguerreotype process. (27 minutes)

Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning

PBS

More than four decades of 20th-century America are filtered through Lange’s life and lens—her creations and achievements, her tragedies and losses. Known for her powerful images from the Great Depression, her haunting "Migrant Mother" remains emblematic of that period. In 1936, when photographs of the poverty-stricken mother of seven, stranded in a camp in California, were published, a national awareness began. As America matured into a world power, Lange continued to bear witness—mass migration, increasing urbanization and the cost of war at home—bringing subjects alive, transmitting raw emotions and capturing the human condition. This film is made by Dyanna Taylor, Lange’s granddaughter, who began her artistic vision, literally, at Lange’s feet.

Pictorialism: Photo

ARTE France

Fifty years after it was invented, photography once again sought to rival painting. The Pictorialist photographers at the turn of the 20th century reproduced the subjectivity and timeless themes of earlier visual arts by experimenting with soft focus, special lenses, printing effects, and by drawing, engraving, or painting directly onto prints. Providing an overview of the movement and its influences, this program studies the works and the methods of the Pictorialist photographers, including Robert Demachy, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frank Eugene, Edward Steichen, and Alfred Stieglitz. Focusing on “Rodin—The Thinker,” “The Pond—Moonlight,” “The Letter,” “The Onion Field,” “The Bridge—Ipswich,” “The Steerage,” and “The Seven Last Words,” the video also covers Guido Rey, George Davidson, F. Holland Day, Heinrich Kuhn, and Paul Haviland. Contains nudity. A part of the series Photo. (26 minutes)

The Primitives of Photography, 1850-1860: Photo

ARTE France

With an overview of its pioneers—called “the primitives of photography” by Felix Nadar—this program explores the brief golden era between the time that photography was invented and the time it became an industry. The transformation of the camera from mere recording device to new artistic medium is seen in works that feature deliberate composition as well as in staged photos and composite prints. The technical processes by which photographers enhanced their works is also explained, especially in the creation of Oscar Rejlander’s precursor of Photoshop, “The Two Ways of Life.” Among others, the video covers Henry Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard, Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, and Henry Peach Robinson, focusing on “Open Door,” “Self Portrait as a Drowned Man,” “Cloister at St. Triomphe in Arles,” and “Fading Away.” A part of the series Photo. (26 minutes)

Photographing Intimacy: Photo

ARTE France

When Jacques Henri Lartigue began taking pictures in 1901 it was for the sheer enjoyment of recording his family’s daily life. Lartigue’s albums were featured at the MoMA in 1963, inspiring a new movement in photography called diarism. By the 1980s the genre had become even more intimate as the diarists added increasingly radical levels of introspection to their work. This program studies photos by Nobuyoshi Araki, Nan Golden, Antoine d’Agata, John Coplans, and others as it analyzes how these artists played with concepts of performance and privacy, concealment and display. The video focuses on “Sentimental Journey” and “Winter Journey,” which chronicle the life and death of Araki’s wife; “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” in which Golden blurs the line between real intimacy and posed; and d’Agata’s “Personal Diary of the 21st Century,” a cutting-edge photo fresco of “extreme experience.” Contains nudity. A part of the series Photo. (26 minutes)

The Inventors: Photo

ARTE France

“I am at the dawning of a new world,” wrote Nicéphore Niépce in 1827 after he used a camera obscura to fix the scene outside his window onto a metal plate, thus creating the world’s first surviving photograph. “View from the Window at Le Gras” far surpassed earlier attempts to capture images using methods that only managed to reproduce outlines and shadows. This program traces the early history of photography, from Renaissance dabblings with the camera obscura up to the 19th century, when the calotype overtook the daguerreotype as the photographic medium of choice. Explaining both the technical processes of the first cameras and their capabilities, the video shows how inventors including Niépce, Thomas Wedgwood, Henry Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard, and Louis Daguerre pushed the boundaries of composition, lighting, and portraiture with each new advance in photography. A part of the series Photo. (26 minutes)

Michael Levin: Snapshot: The Art of Photography

Sound Venture

Michael Levin shoots stunning soulful moments in time located from all over the Pacific rim and has become one of Canada's top selling photo artists. Not only does he have rabid fans (Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings, among them) who will pay up to $10K for a piece, but IKEA recently licensed several of his pieces that have gone on to sell 300,000 posters around the world. He has won numerous awards and financial freedom an incredible 8 years after quitting the restaurant business and picking up a camera.

Thomas Struth—Brilliant Ideas

Bloomberg

Thomas Struth is one of the most important and influential photographic artists working today. A child of post-World War II Germany, Struth started out photographing the reconstructed streets in his home town of Dusseldorf. Within a few years, he was travelling the world to photograph city streets as a way of reflecting the societies that created them.

White House PR Strategy: Reality Show President

The Reason Foundation

In this short film, Bagnewsnotes publisher Michael Shaw explains how the Obama administration distributes its own imagery while often preventing the independent media from getting the same access as White House staff photographers. Strategically composed photos, taken by official White House photographers, travel from social media sites that are controlled by the administration to the front pages of newspapers around the world. "The White House has effectively become a broadcast company," says Shaw. A Reason TV production.

Impossible Lens, The

Film Ideas

This is the extraordinary story of world-renowned wildlife cinematographer and inventor Dr Jim Frazier, whose optical genius paved the way for much of the world's cutting-edge 3D technology. It includes exclusive interviews from Academy Award winning filmmakers, world-renowned wildlife cinematographers, inventors and optical innovators including Hoyt Yeatman, Peter Parks, and Lenny Lipton.

Art Reimagined

CNN

Using materials that are tried and true to create something new is a challenge almost every artist faces. We follow three African artists reimagining the role of art.

Perform

CNN

An in-depth show highlighting engaging personalities from across the continent of Africa; from news makers in politics and business to the pioneers of music, arts, and sport.

Women of Imagery

CNN

Whether it's behind or in front of the camera, three women are using their images to change perception.

The Photographer's Eye

Independent Production Fund

Bill Moyers compares the styles of photographers Emmet Gowin and Garry Winogrand.

Camera and Lighting Primer

MZed

In this episode Bob continues his overview of equipment by covering different cameras and lighting options within them as well as different lens options.

Live Demo II - Great Results with One Speedlite

MZed

In this episode, Bob goes through the basics of lighting using one speedlite as your primary light and how to build the rest of your setup around that, showing how the movement of light can affect the results.

Live Demo V - Wedding Preparation

MZed

In the last two episodes of the series, Bob combines all the lessons of the course as we join him though an entire wedding shoot. Starting with a thorough walkthrough of his preparation, we then join him as he documents the early events of the couple's special day.

Maternity, Children, and Family Portraits

MZed

In this episode Clay takes us inside the studio of Sandy Puc, who shows us how to take incredible maternity portraits as well as babies and children. Then we visit Hanson Fong who shows Clay his secrets for creating incredible group portraits.

Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark - Part 2

PBS

Journey with Joel Sartore to Spain where he photographs the alluring Iberian Lynx, and to China to film the Yangtze giant softshell turtle. In Cameroon, Joel hopes to glimpse the amazing Cross River gorilla, the rarest in the world.

Episode 5: Behind the Scenes - The Making of "Big Pacific" (Big Pacific)

PBS

Follow the adventures of the filmmakers behind Big Pacific. This ‘Making Of’ special explores the highlights and challenges of wildlife filmmaking.

Color Correction

MZed

With color correction being such an integral facet of filmmaking, Alex Buono talks about it briefly in this episode, sharing the precise correct order of events that he employs to ensure he gets the best results when correcting footage either on a solo project or when working with a colorist.

Alex's Biggest Mistakes

MZed

Making mistakes is an essential part to learning one's craft. In this episode Alex Buono opens up about his biggest on-set mistakes from dropping lenses, to under-exposing shots on his Academy-award nominated short film Johnny Flynton. He goes on to share his insights on how best to get hired for jobs.

Corporate

MZed

In this episode, Stephen Eastwood continues to show us how to work indoors with a range of lighting situations. We start with corporate portraits in an office, before moving to an edgy warehouse space, and finishing in an industrial stairway.

Composition: Basic Production—Digital Cinema Training

TMW Media Group

In this five part Digital Cinema Training series, viewers learn basic production. This video highlights the use of wide angle and telephoto lenses, shot perspectives, camera angles, axis of movement, and composition to create various psychological impacts on the audience.

Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures

HBO

In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to “Look at the pictures,” while denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed social boundaries with their frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism – and ignited a culture war that rages to this day. More than 25 years later, the HBO Documentary Films presentation Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures does just that, taking an unflinching, unprecedented look at Mapplethorpe’s most provocative work. From acclaimed filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Inside Deep Throat; HBO’s Wishful Drinking and The Eyes of Tammy Faye), and produced by Katharina Otto-Bernstein (Absolute Wilson), the film is the first feature-length documentary about the artist since his death from AIDS in 1989 (at age 42), and is the most comprehensive film on Mapplethorpe ever made. The film goes inside preparations for two landmark Mapplethorpe retrospectives, at The J. Paul Getty Museum and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), utilizing the exhibitions as a jumping-off point to tell the complete story of Mapplethorpe’s life and work, and to explore the interplay between his personal and professional lives. A fresh, fascinating and candid look at an iconic and divisive figure, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures shines a light on a controversial artist who helped turn contemporary photography into a fine art. An HBO Production.

Lois Greenfield: Photographer

Prime Entertainment Group

New York native Lois Greenfield is best known for her approach to photographing dancers in motion. Her atypical career started with a degree in anthropology and plans to become an ethnographic filmmaker. Instead, she started work as a photojournalist for local newspapers. After traveling the world as a photojournalist for several years, she was assigned to shoot a dress rehearsal for a dance concert, and the rest is history. In this program, she explains how she captures the essence of movement in her photos, her improvisational technique, and exploiting photography's ability to "slice time."

Michael Kenna: Photographer

Prime Entertainment Group

Michael Kenna is an English photographer who is most known for his unusual black and white landscapes. He is fascinated by moments when light is in movement. His ethereal images are often achieved through long exposures in addition to selecting the appropriate time of day. In this program, he talks about his childhood and how this influenced his career path, his major photography projects, what influences his work, how he became a night photographer, and the technical challenges.

Portraits in History and Today

Illuminations

This program showcases portraits of Stuart Pearson Wright, Eamonn McCabe, Marc Quinn, Joshua Reynolds, Rankin and Victoria Russell

Photography

Cerebellum Corporation

Photography was invented more than 150 years ago and allows us to freeze a moment in time. This program briefly covers the important figures of photography, including Niepce, Daguerre, Talbot, Eastman, Kodak, Mannes, and Godowski. It will also cover the components of a camera, the composition of film, and the color spectrum. Lastly, it will explore the major fields in which photography is used: reporting, fashion, biology, art, artificial satellites, and more!

Lives

Annenberg Learner

Lives explores the story of human resilience and perseverance. Middle school teacher Donald Rose uses the "Migrant Mother" photos by Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange to help students understand what elements a photographer chooses to focus on to create the greatest impact. New Orleans documentary photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick talk about working with young photographers to preserve the city's cultural heritage.

Evidence

Annenberg Learner

An image can show us otherwise invisible processes, previously undiscovered life forms, and dramatic change over time. High school teacher Rima Givot engages her students with highly magnified photos of mouse muscle to study genetically modified organisms. Scientist and photomicrographer Dennis Kunkel demonstrates the fascinating process of creating photographs of the microscopic world. Environmental photographer Gary Braasch reports on his worldwide travels to document the state of the planet through repeat photography.

Story

Annenberg Learner

Every photograph tells a story: of struggle, of beauty, of community and culture. Social studies teacher Kim Kanof uses photos from theProtests and Politicscollection to teach about protests around in the world in 1968.National Geographicphoto editor Pamela Chen details the collaborative process of creating photo-based feature stories with design director David Whitmore. Iowa photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier discusses his work documenting the residents and images of marginalized communities across the United States.

Using Photoshop: Photography Skills and Techniques

ClickView Pty Limited

Photoshop allows users to edit digital images. This film explores fundamental techniques of the program including: saturation, brightness and contrast, dodging and burning, healing tools, layering, photomerge, and filter gallery.

The Man Who Shot Vietnam

BBC Worldwide Learning

In 1966, the photographer Philip Jones Griffiths first visited Vietnam. It was an experience that would profoundly shape his career and legacy, as well as the world’s understanding of the humanitarian cost of war. Griffiths captured incredible images of the victims of war and his 1971 photo journal, Vietnam Inc, transformed forever our understanding of this terrible conflict. This beautifully shot documentary gives fascinating insight into the life and legacy of a man who was a true humanitarian and whose pictures are classics of photojournalism, as powerful today as the day they were taken.

Witness

Annenberg Learner

Photographs bear witness to world events and help us to learn more about people, places, and situations—historical and present day. Middle school teacher Donald Rose guides students in analyzing photos from school integration movements of the 1960s. Documentary film producer Ken Burns weaves photographs into historical narratives to bring the past to life. Photojournalist Louie Palu's photos take us deep into mines and war zones, and engage us with the individuals who take on those tasks.

Social Criticism

ARTE France

The China of the excluded, as seen by “lawyers” in the field: rampant pollution, colossal differences in wealth, massive rural exodus, and the first “AIDS villages.” Two photojournalism pioneers, Lu Guang and Zhang Xinmin, sift through the somber reality of “hypergrowth,” while Liu Zheng, one of the leading names in contemporary Chinese photography, reflects on the ills of a civilisation that is prepared to wipe out the past.

Through Women's Lenses

ARTE France

This visual documentary combines contemporary and historical perspectives. Viewers will find themselves wanting to delve into coffee-table books or take a trip to a museum. Ask people to name five photographers, from past or present, and chances are that few will think to name a woman. Highlighting Julia Margaret Cameron, Claude Cahun, Dorthea Lange, Lisette Model, Vivian Maier, Christine Spengler, and Nan Goldin—and featuring images from many more female photographers—this film looks at invaluable contributions that women have made to the art form. With photography currently in vogue, it is a fitting time to dedicate a film to women photographers and to set the record straight on their little-known talents.

The Great War in Color: Art and Photography

MVD Entertainment Group

Even though the technology existed to produce color at the time, most of the surviving films and photographs of the Great War were shot in black and white. Fortunately the advance of technology has allowed historians to revisit these amazing images and present them in color, resulting in a powerful documentary which provides a detailed look at the Great War as experienced through the eyes of those who were there. In addition, rare images produced by pioneers of color photography at work on both sides of the lines are featured, along with vivid works of war artists—both official and unofficial.

Aaron Siskind

Lightborne Communications, Inc.

A self-defined expressionist, Siskind talks about photography as an imaginative experience in which one transformed and imposed meaning on nature by creating tension between objects and forcing a dialogue.

Alfred Eisenstedt

Lightborne Communications, Inc.

Renowned for his ability to capture memorable and newsworthy photos, Eisenstaedt discusses his career in photojournalism and how he developed his style and technique.

Arthur Tress

Lightborne Communications, Inc.

Strongly influenced by primitive art forms, Tress sees himself as a surrealist. He creates startling “frozen moments” that hearken back to man’s primal instincts and the primitive expressions of his world.

Barbara Morgan

Lightborne Communications, Inc.

Sensitive to the rhythm of living things, Morgan discusses the details of her photographs of Martha Graham, her early work as a painter, and her relationship with her husband Willard D. Morgan.

Covering War (The Color of War)

History Education

This program captures the experiences of the combat photographers, war correspondents, combat artists, radio personalities, and others who documented World War II. Distributed by A&E Television Networks. A part of the series The Color of War. (45 minutes)