Photography documentaries or series?

[Freaksta]

Here comes another thread, hopfully useful!

Does anyone have any recommendations with regards to series or documentaries relating to photography?

I will edit my post as people post to keep it consolidated! Also maybe give a small desc of the program if possible? And also level..

Series
How to take stunning pictures - BBC 6Parts - Basics

Documentaries/Movies
Fiberglass and megapixels - Surfing photography in Hawaii (just watched it)
War Photographer - James Nachtwey covering war
BBC South Africa In Pictures 2010 - Rankin travels to South Africa to find out more about the country that has inspired much of his work

That's all I can think of for now! Please post if you can recommend anything!

Thanks
Freaksta

 

[koffiejunkie]

Movie: "War Photographer" - Documentary style movie follows James Nachtwey around as he covers war.

Book: Bang Bang Club by Greg Marinovic and Joao Silva - Not so much about photography but history, in particular the violence leading up to the election in '94 and immediately afterward, but also other areas (Sudan, Bosnia/Serbia, etc), told from the perspective of these legendary photographers. James Nachtwey cameos in this book too.

 

[Freaksta]

Cool thanks, will take a look at that, have a few other ones im currently trying to get which i will add if they are worth the watch, dont want to add random things that turn out to be a waste of time!

 

[ponder]

http://www.factualtv.com/videos/photography/1
http://www.youtube.com/user/Rangefindergeneral#g/p
http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/...y-dog-of-tokyo-documentary-from-viz-pictures/
http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/movies-about-photographers
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=visions+and+images+DukeLibDigitalColl+&aq=f
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork/
http://vimeo.com/6831560
http://www.digital-photography-scho...documentaries-with-aussie-press-photographers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jn-T74inE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-fufbjeo0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SgFMN1NjU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZcxwtKp7BM


Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs Of Edward Burtynsky
Pep Bonet, Faith In Chaos
The Death Of Kevin Carter
The City Of Photographers
Annie Leibovitz: A Life Through A Lens
Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Being a Photographer (Book with DVD)
David Alan Harvey, Cuba, National Geographic
Sebastiao Salgado, Migrations
Naked States
National Geographic's The Photographers
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
William Eggleston: In the Real World
War Photographer (James Nachtwey).
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (John Walker).
The September issue (RJ Cutler).
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club (Dan Kraus).
The Bang Bang Club (Steven Silver).
La vida loca (Christian Poveda).
Contacts, Vol. 1: The Great Tradition of Photojournalism (Various)
Contacts, Vol. 2: The Renewal of Contemporary Photography (Various)
Contacts, Vol. 3: Conceptual Photography (Various)
American masters. Annie Leibovitz: Life through a lens.
Robert Capa: in love an war (Anne Makepeace) .
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye (Heinz Butler).
Paisajes transformados (Jennifer Baichwal).
The genius of Photography.
La ciudad de los fotógrafos (Sebastián Moreno).
Stranger with a camera (Elizabeth Barret).
An unlikely weapon (Susan Morgan Cooper).
William Eggleston in the Real World (Michael Almereyda).
An American Journey: In Robert Frank’s Footsteps.
The Photographers Series: Debbie Fleming Caffery.
Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century.
Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project.
The Decisive Moment (Henri Cartier-Bresson).
Pictures from a Revolution (Susan Meiselas).
Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge.
Toward the Margin of Life (Cornell Capa).
The Adventure of Photography (Various).
Aaron Siskind.
What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann.
American Masters – Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light.
Masters of Photography – Diane Arbus.
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Masters of Photography – André Kertesz.
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult.
Masters of Photography – Edward Steichen.
American Masters – Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye.
John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography.
Peter Beard: Scrapbooks From Africa & Beyond.
American Photography (Various). Half Past Autumn – The Life and Works of Gordon Parks.
National Geographic’s The Photographers (Various).
Ansel Adams – A Documentary Film.
Sally Mann - What Remains
Trent Parke - Dreamlives
William Klein - Out Of Nessesity
The Eloquent Nude
California and the West

 

[Freaksta]

Holy moly! haha, i take it you have watched all of those? Thanks for that list it will give me something to work on!

 

[ponder]

Holy moly! haha, i take it you have watched all of those? Thanks for that list it will give me something to work on!

Yea sure I've watched War Photographer and one or two other I can't remember.

Thought a list would be a good starting point, from it you can read a bit and figure out if they are worth watching.

You should watch all of them and then report back to us with a short list

 

[Freaksta]

Yea sure I've watched War Photographer and one or two other I can't remember.

Thought a list would be a good starting point, from it you can read a bit and figure out if they are worth watching.

You should watch all of them and then report back to us with a short list

Yup, im also guessing i wont be able to get 80% of those! They are most likely not going to be easy to find! But i will definitely try get what i can and then add them to the list if they are worth the watch! Im not going to add them to the list yet because they are just names, if anyone has seen any of them and can recommend and post a small description that would be great then they can be added to the top list!

EDIT: Only manage to find 8/42 in a basic search... Will do the rest of the list this evening!

 

[threegee]

The Scott Kelby Show "The Grid" is also good to keep tabs on. You can subscribe to the podcasts on Itunes.
http://kelbytv.com/thegrid/

 

[HelmutRS]

The Scott Kelby Show "The Grid" is also good to keep tabs on. You can subscribe to the podcasts on Itunes.
http://kelbytv.com/thegrid/

Thanks for this! I will subscribe to it as I know Scott's books very well

 

[d7e7r7]

Don't forget The Bang Bang Club movie...