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The Genius of Photography 4: Paper Movies

Posted on September 23, 2011December 6, 2018 by Dharma Documentaries
This week's episode looks at the way photographers found their own terrain on the streets of the cities, the highways and beaches of the post-war world.

This week’s episode looks at the way photographers moved away from the conventions of the fine arts, with their emphasis on portraiture and landscapes, and found their own terrain on the streets of the cities, the highways and beaches of the post-war world.

In all of these places people are not posing for the camera, but just being their natural, and sometimes quite odd, selves. The wonder is that somehow many photogrpahers seem to have had the ability to become invisible and poke a camera right in peoples’ faces without them noticing it.

Robert Frank, a Swiss emigre, made a 9-month journey in his adopted country and recorded it all on film, the result was a seminal book in the history of photo-journalism, The Americans, which paved the way for photographers to get on to the streets and find out what was happening there.

Soon after his return from Paris, where he had been studying painting, William Klein started documenting the streets of New York, and came up with some of the most iconic images of the times.

Back in Britain Tony Ray-Jones took on the awesome task of photographing British Beaches and their otherwordly inhabitants; and there are many more photogrpahers covered in this episode including Ed Ruscha, who in a pop-art way photographed filling stations, Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.

 

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Photograph by Robert Frank
Photograph by Robert Frank

 

Photograph by William Klein
Photograph by William Klein

 

Photograph by William Klein
Photograph by William Klein

 

Photograph by Weegee the Famous
Photograph by Weegee the Famous

 

Photograph by Garry Winogrand
Photograph by Garry Winogrand

 

Photograph by Tony Ray-Jones
Photograph by Tony Ray-Jones

 

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