Edward Weston: the photographer

A beautifully crafted 1948 documentary about “The Photographer”, featuring Edward Weston. This was to be the year Weston made his last photograph. For the remaining ten years of his life he struggled with Parkinson’s disease.

Elmira Watts solo exhibition in Russia

Award winning UK-based Russian portraitist, Elmira Watts, has had a solo exhibition in her home city of Samara, Russia.

Man Ray

Documentary on Man Ray by Jean-Paul Fargier. This documentary includes treatment of Man Ray’s commercial and editorial portraits, and fashion photography, and the techniques he brought to these.

“Thanks to income from his fashion work, his portraits of rich Americans and his photos for advertising, Man Ray was never short of money.” –Jean-Paul Fargier

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light documentary.

“I am so grateful that I have the capacity and the ability to make a living, support my family — which is the definition of being a man for my generation — support my studios, support my special projects, by doing advertising.” –Richard Avedon

Lartigue

“In 1962 Jacques Henri Lartigue, was travelling across America by Greyhound bus with his wife, Florette. With him he carried two albums of photographs that Florette had been repairing, to while-away the journey. In a chance encounter with a photographic agent at the end of the trip, these family snaps he’d taken as a child were uncovered. For Lartigue, this changed everything. Within a year he had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It captivated the world, and he was hailed a genius of 20th Century photography.”

J.H. Lartigue: The Boy Who Never Grew Up: documentary video.

Diane Arbus

A half-hour documentary on Diane Arbus, posted on YouTube in four parts. Made in 1972 after her death that year.

“Diane Arbus was my mother. [...] In July 1971 my mother committed suicide and shortly after that Marvin Israel, a very close friend of hers, and I felt that we wanted to do a book of her work together. So we began collecting not just the pictures but whatever material we could find. In 1970 she had given a class in Westbeth, which was where she lived. And we found out that one of the students in that class was a Japanese photographer named Nikko Nakahara who admired Diane’s work enormously. The problem was that he barely spoke any English at all, so what he had done was to go to the classes and bring along a tape recorder to record everything that was said so that afterwards he could go home and see if he could try and understand it. So he leant us those tapes. The tapes were of very poor quality, so we asked Mary Claire Costello, who was a friend of Diane’s, to read Diane’s words over glimpses of her photographs.” –Doon Arbus

Fujifilm and HP create lasting images of Victorian Britain

Photographers Graham Diprose and Jeff Robins from London College of Communication, have worked for the past ten years to revisit and recreate images from Victorian Henry Taunt’s ‘New Map of the River Thames’ (1885). read more

Ansel Adams

A half-hour TV interview profiling fine-art photographer and printer, Ansel Adams. YouTube video in four parts.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson: the impassioned eye

A documentary about Henri Cartier-Bresson.