I haven’t seen most of these, so feel free to add any reviews to the comments.
Thanks! – James Pomerantz
Documentary:
1: War Photographer(James Nachtwey)
2: An American Journey: In Robert Frank’s Footsteps
3: The Photographers Series: Debbie Fleming Caffery
4: Manufactured Landscapes (US Edition) (Edward Burtynsky)
5: Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century
6: Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
7: The Decisive Moment (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
8: Pictures from a Revolution (Susan Meiselas)
9: Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
10: Toward the Margin of Life (Cornell Capa)
11: Born into Brothels (Children in India)
12: The Adventure of Photography (Various)
13: Ralph Gibson: Photographer/ Book Artist
14: Aaron Siskind
15: What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
16: American Masters – Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
17:Masters of Photography – Diane Arbus
18: Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (Paul Strand)
19: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
20: Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
21: Masters of Photography – André Kertesz
22: W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
23: Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
24: Masters of Photography – Edward Steichen
25: Contacts, Vol. 1: The Great Tradition of Photojournalism (Various)
26: Contacts, Vol. 2: The Renewal of Contemporary Photography (Various)
27: Contacts, Vol. 3: Conceptual Photography (Various)
28: American Masters – Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
29: John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography
30: William Eggleston In the Real World
31: Peter Beard: Scrapbooks From Africa & Beyond
32: American Photography (Various)
33: Half Past Autumn – The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
34: National Geographic’s The Photographers(Various)
35: Ansel Adams – A Documentary Film
A Few Movies with Varying Levels of Connectivity to Photography:
1: Salvador (Special Edition)
2: Rear Window
3: Under Fire
4: Proof
6: The Year of Living Dangerously
7: Blow Up
9: High Art
10: The Public Eye
11: City of God
13: Pecker
And we all forgot on Spencer Tunnick and his Naked States,enjoy.
You must add Bill Cunningham New York in your list. It’s soooooo good.
Website: http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYqiLJBXbss
FUR- An imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus.
October Sky (Joe Johnston, 1999), starring O. Winston Link
Wasteland!
I just watched “Everlasting Moments” for the second time – it’s a wonderful Swedish film about a women in early 20th century Sweden who wins a camera in a raffle and how she struggles with balancing family life with her love for photography.
I studied The Decisive Moment in art history class at HBU last semester. It was interesting, and I learned a lot. I’m not sure if I’d recommend it to anyone just for watching, but for learning purposes it’s pretty good.
-Sarah
Arizona Art Gallery
I studied The Decisive Moment in art history class at HBU last semester. It was interesting, and I learned a lot. I’m not sure if I’d recommend it to anyone just for watching, but for learning purposes it’s pretty good.
-Sarah
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How can you leave out Midnight Meat Train based on Clive Barker’s short story. This is a fantastic horror movie focused on fine art photography with a little sense of photojournalism thrown in and the ending couldn’t be better.
there was a wonderful and accurate passage on photography in Bloom Brother 2009
I highly recommend “Heavenly Forrest” (Tada, kimi wo aishiteru) by Japanese director Takehiko Shinjo.
It’s a bittersweet lovestory about two young students who are connected by their passion for photography, and photography plays a prominent role throughout the movie. The female lead character is played by Aoi Miyazaki, who is not just a very talented actress and the epitome of cuteness, but an avid photographer in real life as well.
To learn more about Heavenly Forest, see the review by Calvin McMillin on YesAsia.com:
http://www.yesasia.com/global/heavenly-forest-dvd-hong-kong-version/1010701737-0-0-0-en/info.html
Oops, Stray Dog, rather.
Just saw this in the video store, but haven’t checked it out yet:
Street Dog of Tokyo: Daido Moriyama
http://www.newpeopleartistseries.com/moriyama.html
James, this is a great list. I think I mentioned “Photo Wallahs” before, a documentary by David and Judith MacDougall about photo studios and photography in Mussoorie.
http://www.berkeleymedia.com/catalog/berkeleymedia/films/arts_humanities/photo_wallahs
“A lost man” (un homme perdu) inspired by Antoine D’Agata’s life who was on the set of the film giving direction about his character.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UAcjBQdks
Also still about Antoine D’Agata:
“Aka Ana”, D’Agata first movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5yMHDOMrzM
The cambodian Room:
http://www.cambodianroom.net/wp/trailer/
I don’t see this movie about Abelardo Morell on the list yet – http://www.shadowofthehouse.com
Incredible late on these three, but …
PIRKLE JONES: SEVEN DECADES PHOTOGRAPHED
http://www.fotofinishfilms.com/open.PJ.html
BLACK, WHITE AND GRAY, PORTRAIT OF SAM WAGSTAFF AND ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
http://www.blackwhitegray.com/
MY EYES WERE FRESH: THE LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN GUTMANn
http://www.johngutmann.org/film.html
Manufactured Landscapes is brilliant!
“Dying to Tell The Story” about photojournalist Dan Eldon and how he was killed in Somalia.
“Mountain Light” by Galen Rowell.
“Moment of Impact: Stories of Pulitzer Prize Photographs.”
“Sebastiao Salgado: Looking Back at You.”
“W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult.”
“The Public Eye,” Joe Pesci plays a Weegee inspired character in NYC during World War II.
The Julia Roberts/Natalie Portman/Clive Owen/Jude Law film, CLOSER by Mike Nichols! it’s amazing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/
Another good movie related to photography is Cherry Crush directed by Nicholas DiBella. It’s a great, sexy movie!
I think Candice Bergen’s brilliant cameo as Margaret Bourke White in Sir Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” does deserve a mention.
Richard Avedon inspired Funny Face. And Road to Perdition has a Weegee-like character. More tangentially, there’s Roman Holiday and La Dolce Vita, whose celebrity photographer, Paparazzo, inspired the word “paparazzi.”
Spectre of Hope about Sebastião Salgado’s book Migrations is amazing and eye opening. It’s available on Google video.
there is another Eggleston doc called WIlliam Eggleston:Photographer. Came out last year. Haven’t seen it.
http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/910/William_Eggleston_Photographer.html
Arakimentari doc about Nobuyoshi Araki
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Arakimentari/70032360?strackid=692b3a042a00c9c4_2_srl&strkid=905983488_2_0&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&trkid=222336
Line of Beauty and Grace: A Documentary about Jock Sturges
http://www.amadelio.org/jock_sturges/sturges_documentary_dvd.htm
People*Love*Photos
http://www.amadelio.org/berkeley_carucci_rose/berkeley_carucci_rose_film_dvd_about.htm
The Nicole Kidman Diane Arbus flick Fur.
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Uff… I just remembered one more… One hour photo… with Robin Williams!
I watched William Eggleston in the Real World at Snag Films for free: http://tinyurl.com/nkerqe
I liked it just because I find Eggleston such a fascinating character.
There are some beautiful movies/documentaries in this list, but John Waters’ “Pecker” is the only one that will make you laugh.
Great list. Perhaps Brian de Palma’s ‘Femme Fatale’ is a candidate?
great additions. Thanks!
best,
jp
I’m a big fan of the 1986 academy award nominated documentary STREETWISE. Portrays the lives of the same children featured in Mary Ellen Mark’s book by the same title. Only available on video cassette tape!
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Great list, btw. See also “Reporters”, by Raymond Depardon, covering the work of photojournalists from Gamma agency. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082986/
We absolutely cannot forget STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE by Errol Morris.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/standardoperatingprocedure/
It is an essential examination of the role of the photographs in the Abu Ghraib scandal and consequent military tribunals, including interviews with the privates who took the digital photographs.
Great to see a list of movies of photography!! Thank you!
May I also suggest Memento Mori/Self Portrait about Roger Ballen (http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?Catalog=ID813) – european DVD (region 2) I’m afraid, but good!
I’d like to toss a favorite of mine into the mix… Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick.
I have watched 3 of these movies tonight. Thank you for the recommendations–
Pretty Baby by Louis Malle and Delirious by Tom DiCillo are both good films about photographers. Everyone says Blow Up is a masterpiece but I thought it was crap.
Thanks so much for the comments. City of God is great movie. Apocalypse Now and Rear Window too.
best,
jp
Uff, you have to watch movies that I mentioned below! City of gods is one of the top 5 movies of all for me…
Only seen a few of these, war photographer, manufactured landscapes are great. Don McCullin did all the prints for the movie Blow up.
Memento (2000) – Fantastic movie!!!
Shortbus (2006)- Erotic, great!
Baba Yaga (1973) – Funny movie!
Have you watched all the listed movies…? City of gods, Rear window, Blow up, Apocaylipse now are fantastic!
Sorry, I meant Agnes Varda. getting my Art Stars mixed up early in the morning
“La Jetee” by Chris Marker, and “The Gleaners and I” by Agnes Martin would both be great choices. They fall under the second category, of being connected to Photography in a sideways manner
always been partial to Peeping Tom
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