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The Big Fat List of Documentaries About Photography
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Want to watch a non-fiction film about photography? Here’s a list of documentaries (and some other stuff) concerning photography that I’ve collected over the years.
Documentaries
- 1957, Ansel Adams, Photographer
- 1972, Going Where I've Never Been The Photography of Diane Arbus – YouTube
- 1973, Henri Cartier-Bresson – The Decisive Moment
- 1986, Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank – YouTube
- 1989, Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
- 1989, Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
- 1996, Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
- 1999, Magnum Photos: The Changing of a Myth
- 2001, Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye
- 2001, Henri Cartier-Bresson – Just Plain Love – YouTube
- 2001, Near Equal Daido Moriyama – YouTube
- 2001, War Photographer
- 2002, Ben Lewis – Gursky World – Vimeo
- 2003, Ansel Adams, American Experience
- 2003, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
- 2003, Martin Parr – De Magie van het Moment – YouTube
- 2003, Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
- 2003, The Adventure Of Photography – YouTube
- 2003, The Colourful Mr Eggleston – YouTube
- 2003, The World According To Martin Parr – YouTube
- 2004, Thinking XXX
- 2005, Leaving Home, Coming Home A Portrait of Robert Frank
- 2005, What Remains – Sally Mann
- 2005, William Eggleston in the Real World
- 2006, Annie Leibovitz Life Through A Lens
- 2006, Manufactured Landscapes
- 2007, Michael Kenna's Hokkaido – Stream
- 2008, Visual Acoustics The Modernism of Julius Schulman
- 2009, Erwin Olaf, on Beauty and Fall – Vimeo
- 2009, Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn
- 2010, Bill Cunningham New York
- 2010, Marwencol
- 2010, Smash His Camera
- 2010, Teenage Paparazzo
- 2010, The President's Photographer – PBS
- 2010, The Weird Adventures of Eadweard Muybridge
- 2011, America in Pictures- The Story of Life Magazine – Vimeo
- 2011, Sam Abell – The Life of a Photograph – YouTube
- 2012, Anton Corbijn Inside Out – YouTube
- 2012, Gregory Crewdson Brief Encounters
- 2012, McCullin
- 2012, No Worries – Martin Parr – YouTube
- 2012, The Many Lives of William Klein – YouTube
- 2013, Vivian Maier Who Took Nanny's Pictures – YouTube
- 2013, Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
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Series
- 1988, Contacts, Vol. 1 The Great Tradition of Photojournalism
- 1992, Contacts, Vol. 2 The Renewal of Contemporary Photography
- 1997, Decisive Moments – The Photographs That Made History
- 2001, Contacts, Vol. 3 Conceptual Photography
- 2007, The Genius Of Photography
- 2012, Capture with Mark Seliger (RSRV)
- 2012, Picture Perfect (Vice)
- 2012, Witness (HBO)
Related
- 1992, Visions of Light – The Art of Cinematography (Cinematography)
- 1999, Think of England – YouTube (by Martin Parr)
- 2000, Killing Us Softly 3 Advertisings Image of Women (Advertising Industry)
- 2003, Los Angeles Plays Itself (Film Industry)
- 2009, The September Issue (Fashion Industry)
- 2010, Restrepo (by Tim Hetherington)
- 2010, The Forgotten Space (by Allan Sekula)
- 2011, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (Fashion Industry)
- 2011, The Story of Film: An Odyssey – Netflix (Film History)
Bonus
- Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography 2012 – YouTube
- Henri Cartier-Bresson Interviewed by Charlie Rose – YouTube
- James Nares – STREET – Lecture – Vimeo
- Joel Meyerowitz 1981 Street Photography Program – YouTube
- Magnum Photos – Earthlings by Richard Kalvar – YouTube
- Magnum Photos – Personal Best by Elliott Erwitt – YouTube
- Mark Feeney: "Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before" – YouTube
- Peter Fraser 2011 talk on his work and workshop assignment – Vimeo
- Sarah Moon is a Master of Photography (from Contacts) – YouTube
Feel free to suggest any films we’ve left off the list in the comments below.
About the author: Wirjo Hardjono is a photography enthusiast who enjoys finding and watching films about photography. This article originally appeared here.
Image credit: film-reel by eelke dekker, Be Kind Rewind film reel by seafaringwoman
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