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Documentaries are film or television art forms that take real life as the creative material, take real people and real events as the object of expression, and process and display their art, to show the truth as the essence, and use the truth to arouse people's thinking. Here are a few documentaries about photography.
1
Netflix and Photography: Contacts
(Photography Full Contact)
A collection of dozens of photographic masters, 3 DVDs, more than 6 hours of video collections, accompanied by vocals, reading the creative heart sutra written by the photographer. Every photograph will not touch every viewer exactly the same.
Photography is the art of the moment, the moment is fleeting, we can not copy, we can understand the works of the masters to understand their realm, deepen the understanding of photography.
2
The Adventure of Photography
(History of Photography)
The film reviews the history of photography techniques over the past 150 years since Daguerre invented photography. From early silver plate photography to wartime photographic journalism to renowned contemporary artists, this film includes 1,700 photographs and 300 artists, not only the history of photographic art, but also its century and a half experience. Led by famous photographers, this film will surely dazzle you and dazzle you.
Photography came into being in the middle of the nineteenth century, and due to the success of the Industrial Revolution, the development of the Western social market economy had matured by this period. With the decline of the aristocratic class and the rapid development of the city, the bourgeoisie and the civic class emerged in large numbers, the social atmosphere changed, and the pursuit of fashion became fashionable. Therefore, as soon as photography appeared on the stage of human society and culture, it immediately became a hot spot and a highlight. In the past ten years alone (1849), in Paris, France alone, there are 100,000 people who have taken daguerreotype portraits. By 1853, more than 10,000 people in the United States had taken more than three million photographs. The enthusiasm of photography at that time can be seen.
Due to the evolution of society, some intellectuals who were either born or attached to the decline of the former aristocracy were not accustomed to the new life, or did not understand the end, thus producing a confused and fatalistic world-weariness. The Pre-Raphaelites in the field of graphic arts arose from such social soil. As a result, by the end of the century, the entire European art scene was shrouded in aestheticism, decadence and symbolism with retro tendencies. This style of styling has influenced the generation of this time from the beginning, and it is naturally not surprising that there is no traditional photographic art of its own.
This film can not only learn about the history of photography, but also learn about the world genre of photographic art. Let us know what we should shoot and then think about how to shoot.
3
War Photographer
(War Photographer)
James Natchwey, who joined Magnum Pictures in 1985 at the age of 36, has won various photography awards over the past 20 years and created a photojournalism record: interviewing all the wars and conflicts that have taken place around the world over the past 20 years, and has been hailed as "the bravest and most important war photographer of the past 20 years." At the end of 2001, due to a disagreement with the photo agency in terms of the sharing of picture sales, he bid farewell to Magnum and organized a new small photo club with 6 other colleagues, VII., which set a precedent for photographers to shoot, manage and operate on their own. Following Salgado's exit, Magnum once again faced embarrassment due to the departure of a famous photographer, which caused a lot of discussion in the international press photo community.
From June 1999 to June 2001, director Christine Frye followed Andreu Nachevi for two years to shoot the 96-minute documentary, leaving their footprints in Kosovo, Jakarta, Ramallah, East Java, New York and Hamburg.
Shooting method: Frey hung a special ultra-small camera on Natchevey's camera, not only so that the audience can see how the famous photographer observes, how to shoot, but even let us hear his every breath and every time the shutter is pressed, the sense of scene is very strong. The documentary opens with a monologue by Nachevi: "Every minute of the scene, I was trying to escape, I didn't want to see what happened. But I'm a camera guy, should I just push the shutter and dodge it, or should I take on the responsibilities of a photojournalist?
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, this film is a stunning and rare work of excellence.
4
Arakimentari
(Mist)
Araki Ishi, a controversial Japanese photographer. He never shy away from visualizing sex in his works, so he was criticized and criticized by apologists. His behavior is obedient, his clothes are exaggerated and casual, and he is clearly an old man in the eyes of many people, but he has also launched the famous film "Sentimental Journey" with great affection, which records the bits and pieces of Araki and his beloved wife Yoko's honeymoon journey. Satoshi has passed away, and the moments in the film series have become forever, and Naoto Takenaka's film "Tokyo Hiwa" based on the couple has felt countless people. Gentle Araki, unruly Araki, which one is more real? Director Travis Klose, through a large number of interviews and records, may be able to show a more authentic Araki Sutra like you and me...
The film won best documentary and best score at the 2004 Brooklyn International Film Festival.
5
Near Equal Moriyama Daido
(Close to Moriyama Avenue)
Moriyama's strong image style is particularly popular among contemporary Japanese youth. Lazy and casual, rigorous and introverted Moriyama, if not photographed, should be a very handsome and flavorful actor. There is a charming old texture under the black and white light, the photographer's eyes have been on the focus aperture in the moment of shooting, sweeping the street can be so cool, any corner makes a shutter press click.
6
Manufactured Landscapes
(Artificial landscape)
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky set foot in those developing countries known as the "world's factories", under his lens, there are workers working hard like worker ants in the assembly line of a factory in Fujian, there are mountains of electronic waste from all over the world in a village in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is a shipbreaking factory in Bangladesh that seems to be piled up with dead bodies, there is a coal mine base in Tianjin Tanggu Port that is like a black cloud, and there is also a magnificent Three Gorges Dam project that seems to benefit all generations. Under the impact of the economic tide, human beings are chasing the negligible interests in front of them at the cost of the environment, but they do not know that they have already forced the environment and their own destiny to the end...
The film won the 2007 Canada Kinney Award for Best Documentary, the 2007 RiverRun International Film Festival for Best Documentary, and the 2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Best Canadian Film and Best Documentary Award.
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The City Of Photographers
(Photographer's city)
This outstanding documentary recalls a group of Chilean photojournalists and photographers who took to the streets after Pinochet seized power by force in the 1970s to film the people's continued strikes, protests, bloody clashes and other important events. Although many people today are not famous, some have passed away, but they risked their lives to record the various real scenes in santiago during the dark period, providing evidence for future generations, "The City of Photographers" is the most important documentary film in Chile in recent years, it looks back at the unforgettable painful memories of Latin America from the unique perspective of photographers, and is more professional and comprehensive than the ordinary people's narrative. （Highly Recommended!）
There is a story behind every photograph, and the photographers have lived in danger and fear, but in their lifetime they need to tell the truth and find out: Are they the heroes of the past dictatorship or the forgotten people who are still floating in the quiet of democracy? That's their story. A black-and-white story from a black-and-white era in which everyone had to choose between black and white, and the only difference between gray shadows was in their photographs...
8
Ashes and Snow
(Dust and Snow)
Maybe you've read a lot of photographers' stories, maybe you've seen a lot of landscape photography, but like Gregory, you've traveled the world and photographed classics of the delicate relationship between people, wildlife and nature, and there aren't many photographers full of poetry and spirit.
The moment captured by the camera - the Indian girl playing with the elephant, the Burmese monk under the eagle spreading its wings, the grandson and grandson who hug the cheetah affectionately... These images are pure and immaculate, and have existed in the world for tens of millions of years. Nature photographer Gregory Koober succeeds in finding long-lost love and trust between people and wildlife, and we can't find fear or danger in the picture.
The film is divided into several parts, including elephants, whales, leopards, eagles, and bobcats... The film is extremely beautiful, each chapter, accompanied by music, like a poem, humans and animals do not speak, but the language of the body tells everything. Watching the film and quietly admiring the graceful interaction between animals and humans, the hypothetical thinking in my head is temporarily set aside.
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Images of the Old World
(Old World Group Portrait)
A 1972 black-and-white documentary by Czechoslovakia's video master Toussay Hanak is one of the most important and influential works of his film career and one of the most important works in the history of Czech cinema. After the filming was completed, because the subject matter was too gray, focusing on the elderly in the countryside who had a tragic fate and lost their labor, they could not pass the censorship of the Czech Film Bureau. The Czech minister of culture, the poet Miroslav Valek, stepped in to save the film, renaming it "Group Portraits of the Old World" and deflecting the pressure of censorship.
The documentary was inspired by Martin Malenk's portrait photography of elderly figures. Seemingly peculiar characters often hide tragic fates, struggling with poverty, selfishness, illness or old age, but at the same time confronting the world.
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The Power of Images: Leni Riefenstahl
(The Power of Images: Lenny Riefenstahl)
Leni Riefenstahl, a name that cannot be ignored in the history of German cinema and has caused countless controversies. This beautiful and mysterious woman works as a dancer, videographer, actress, and director, and as a director, she captivates thousands of audiences with her intense masculine style.
Her controversy stems from her contributions to the film industry and her indirect "crimes" against humanity. During the turbulent years, Riefenstahl's film style was appreciated by Führer Hitler, so he was invited to make several documentaries for the Nazis, such as Victory of the Will and Olympia. With the support of empire, Riefenstahl creatively elevated cinematic aesthetics to unprecedented heights, and these films became the most criticized works of the devil after the war.
Based on a large number of interviews and precious video materials, this film tells people about the life of this legendary woman who has walked through a hundred years.
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Finding Vivian Maier
(Looking for Vivian Meier)
Vivian Maier, an ordinary man who has been a nanny all his life, her relics — nearly 100,000 photographs — make her the star of the photography circle. This documentary attempts to take viewers on a quest for Vivian's life. But is this hustle and bustle, high-profile exposure, what Vivian wants?
12Eye On The Sixties
The words on the poster, coupled with a glimpse of this young man with a pipe, are too handsome. The documentary looks back at the photographic career of Rowland Scherman, a photographer for life pictorials, and refracts social life through his eyes. Wikipedia introduced Rowland Scherman as the first photographer of the American Peace Corps, and Peter Heisler was also a member of the Peace Corps, and if such a photographer had come to China, from Fuling to Beijing, I don't know what the story would have been.
13Everybody Street
A documentary about street photography in New York with numerous interviews with Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Jill Freedman. The streets of New York are really fierce, and this film makes me envy cities where there are living people on the streets, and here we are, there are no streets, only highways.
14George Tice
Darkroom teacher Fu, the photographic philosophy of the large-format photographer George Tice.
15In No Great Hurry
The director said the film was a tribute to an old gentleman who did not seek fame and fortune and lived a slow life, Saul Leiter died last year, and walked through his unhurried life.
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