Skip to content

Dharma Documentaries

Dharma. Culture. Ecology.

Menu
  • Dharma
  • Culture
  • Ecology
  • Archives
  • About
Menu

The Genius of Photography 4: Paper Movies

Posted on September 23, 2011March 20, 2022 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.

 

if this video is no longer available please leave a comment so I can update the page
(the comment is not published)

 

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

 

TAGS:
Culture, Arts, Europe, USA

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Please Note: Comments are Moderated before Publication

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Search

Subscriptions

Follow our Facebook Page Follow our Tweets Subscribe to our Feed

Subscribe by Email

Email


Shortlink and QR

https://dharma-documentaries.net/b/1VB

Donations

This site has taken more than a dozen years and 1000s of hours to build, and has 800+ documentaries on it. If you would like to help, you can do so here. Even small amounts make a difference.

or Bank Transfer to:
Mr. Ng Choon Aun, Public Bank Berhad (Malaysia), Acc. No. 6352323912, Swift: PBBEMYKL

Copyright

If anyone has any copyright claims please contact me at dharmadocus@gmail.com and the posts and films will be immediately removed.

Top Ten Tags

Theravada
Mahayana
Vajrayana

India
Silk Road
China
Tibet

Arts
Lectures
Rights

Popular Posts

  • The Freedom of being a Buddhist Nun
  • Bright and Shining Mind in a Disabled Body
  • The Leshan Giant Buddha Statue
  • The Silk Road Series 7/16: Khotan-Oasis of Silk and Jade
  • David Eckel: Buddhism 3-4 of 24
  • The Tibetan Oracles
  • The Mountain Yogi, Lama Govinda
  • Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: The Untold Truth
  • Indian Roots of Tibetan Buddhism
  • Avalokiteshvara (Chinese Movie)

Recent Posts

  • Buddha’s Lost Children
  • Zen Buddhism – In Search of Self
  • Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East?
  • Bright and Shining Mind in a Disabled Body
  • From Myanmar to the World 2, Caves to Pagodas
  • From Myanmar to the World 1, Overland to India
  • The Rise of Dhamma
  • Lempad of Bali
  • Bagan, City of Temples (Fall of Civilizations)
  • Escape from Tibet

Random Posts

  • The Heart of Taoism 4, Weapons of War
  • A Tibetan Woman’s Life
  • Angkor Wat Lotus Temple
  • The Yungang Grottoes: Bridging Weight and Grace
  • The Glory of Dunhuang 9, Calling Dunhuang
  • Dunhuang, Edge of the World 3, Juqu Mengxun
  • Lost Civilisations: Ancient Tibet
  • Dunhuang, Edge of the World 5, Hong Bian
  • The Glory of Dunhuang 10, Dunhuang Majesty
  • Wangari Maathai: Environment, Democracy and Peace

Related Posts

  • Burned, Are Trees the New Coal?
  • HH 17 Karmapa - from Youth to Mastery 2
  • Heaven On Earth 6: Buddhism
  • Bon, The Light of the Golden Sun
  • Building Without Nails, the Genius of Japanese Carpentry
  • America before Columbus (the Columbian Exchange)
  • Ansel Adams: American Wilderness Photographer
  • The Genius of Photography 3: Right Time, Right Place
  • The Genius of Photography 2: Documents for Artists
  • First Earth - Uncompromising Ecological Architecture - 2
© 2023 Dharma Documentaries | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme