The genius of photography
The Genius of Photography is an 6-part episode documentary showed on BBC, showing the breakdown of the history, progress changes of photography as an art form and its role in history that begin from the 19th century to this day looking into the events and the important photographs that have started the photography movement. From the first photographic process called daguerreotype to digital camera, from portraits towards photo-journalism, from art to advertising. The film tells the story of the world’s best photographers. From the first photographs they had taken to the acknowledgement of photography. Tracking its process from its use as a just a leisure pastime to the digital age of photographs. The film contains interviews with photographers Martin Parr, William Eggleston, Jeff Wall, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin, William Klein, Robert Adams, Sally Mann and Andreas Gursky, as a breakdown of the history of photography.
Part one fixing the Shadows
Fixing the Shadows tells the story of the start of photography. Detailing the rival methods of the pioneers Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre from the growth of photography from an art form and then to be transformed by the Kodak revolution, which put the camera into the hands of the masses. Finally it looks into the story of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, the schoolboy photographer who shows photography in the hands of the amateur.
Part two Documents for Artists
In the decades following the First World War, photography was the central medium of the age. Precise, rational and machine-like, it was used to the Soviet Union. Part two looks in detail the work of some of the modern photographers
Part three Right Place, Right Time?
Set against the backdrop of the Second World War and its aftermath, show us how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their pictures raise about history as seen through the viewfinder.
Part four Paper Movies
Late 1950’s onwards is seen as the golden age of the photographic process. The programme takes a look at Robert Frank’s 50s America, William Klein’s sidewalks of New York, Garry Winogrand’s in Central Park Zoo, and Tony Ray Jones’s at the English seaside, and finally, William Eggleston’s guide to Memphis and the American South. Following the arrival of colour as a credible medium for photographers,
Part five we are Family
This part asks the question, what happens when photographers turn their cameras on themselves? To see what they choose to reveal, and just what they try to hide.
Part six Snap Judgements
The final part looks into what a photograph is worth these days. From the $2.9millon, the record-breaking price achieved by an Edward Steichen print auctioned back in 2006. The Photography has never been so valuable. From America to China and on to Africa, the programme ends by showing the changes of the business of being a photographer and the market’s interest in this art movement.
The Genius of Photography is an 6-part episode documentary showed on BBC, showing the breakdown of the history, progress changes of photography as an art form and its role in history that begin from the 19th century to this day looking into the events and the important photographs that have started the photography movement. From the first photographic process called daguerreotype to digital camera, from portraits towards photo-journalism, from art to advertising. The film tells the story of the world’s best photographers. From the first photographs they had taken to the acknowledgement of photography. Tracking its process from its use as a just a leisure pastime to the digital age of photographs. The film contains interviews with photographers Martin Parr, William Eggleston, Jeff Wall, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin, William Klein, Robert Adams, Sally Mann and Andreas Gursky, as a breakdown of the history of photography.
Part one fixing the Shadows
Fixing the Shadows tells the story of the start of photography. Detailing the rival methods of the pioneers Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre from the growth of photography from an art form and then to be transformed by the Kodak revolution, which put the camera into the hands of the masses. Finally it looks into the story of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, the schoolboy photographer who shows photography in the hands of the amateur.
Part two Documents for Artists
In the decades following the First World War, photography was the central medium of the age. Precise, rational and machine-like, it was used to the Soviet Union. Part two looks in detail the work of some of the modern photographers
Part three Right Place, Right Time?
Set against the backdrop of the Second World War and its aftermath, show us how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their pictures raise about history as seen through the viewfinder.
Part four Paper Movies
Late 1950’s onwards is seen as the golden age of the photographic process. The programme takes a look at Robert Frank’s 50s America, William Klein’s sidewalks of New York, Garry Winogrand’s in Central Park Zoo, and Tony Ray Jones’s at the English seaside, and finally, William Eggleston’s guide to Memphis and the American South. Following the arrival of colour as a credible medium for photographers,
Part five we are Family
This part asks the question, what happens when photographers turn their cameras on themselves? To see what they choose to reveal, and just what they try to hide.
Part six Snap Judgements
The final part looks into what a photograph is worth these days. From the $2.9millon, the record-breaking price achieved by an Edward Steichen print auctioned back in 2006. The Photography has never been so valuable. From America to China and on to Africa, the programme ends by showing the changes of the business of being a photographer and the market’s interest in this art movement.
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