Keyword: photography

Love, Cecil

6.5

2017

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Respected photographer, artist and set designer, Cecil Beaton. was best known for his Academy Award-winning work, designing for such award-winning films such as Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with various models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career. Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes. From the Bright Young Things, to the front lines of World War II, and from the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue to a role as the Queens official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural and political schisms of the twentieth century. In this warm - though critical - portrait, which blends archival footage and photographs with voice over from Beatons famed diaries to capture his legacy as a complex and unique creative force. Dynamic and lyrical, Love, Cecil (2017) is an examination of Beatons singular sense of the visual, which dictated a style and set standards of creativity that continue to resonate and inspire today.

Elmer's Candid Camera

6.5

1940

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Elmer takes up wildlife photography, but finds his subject, a rabbit similar to the later Bugs Bunny character, much too wild.

Memento Mortis

4.2

2015

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A photographer uses dead bodies as props in her erotic photos. Everything was going well until she fell in love.

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

7.1

1975

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Thom Andersens remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridges photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.

Killer Camera Monsters

2.5

2020

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A struggling photographer gets more than he bargained for, discovering the truth of what his new camera is really capable of.

Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

4.3

2013

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A documentary on Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz.

A Single Frame

7.4

2015

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The journey of A SINGLE FRAME weaves an exploration of the impact of photography from both sides of the shutter. The fascinating post-war culture of Kosovo serves as backdrop.

Going Where I've Never Been: The Photography of Diane Arbus

7

1972

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The work of photographer Diane Arbus as explained by her daughter, friends, critics, and in her own words as recorded in her journals. Illustrated with many of her photographs. Mary Clare Costello, narrator Themes: Arbus quirky go-it-alone approach. Her attraction to the bizarre, people on the fringes of society: sexual deviants, odd types, the extremes, styles in questionable taste, poses and situations that inspire irony or wonder. Where most people would look away she photographed.