On Photography

Profile of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most controversial of American photographers, which accompanied an exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery in the year before he died. Contains interview with Mapplethorpe himself, along with critic and author Edmund White, and with several of Mapplethorpe's subjects.

This 1982 10 minute film by Jean-François Dars & Anne Papillault follows Andre Kertész in Paris, with Christian Caujolle and Robert Doisneau. French with English subtitles, traslated by Hélène.

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
(1986, color, 28 min.)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and KUHT-Public Television, Houston; Philip Brookman and Amy Brookman, Directors, Writers, Editors; Anne Wilkes Tucker and Paul Yeager, Producers; Babette Mangolte, Director of Photography; Paul Yeager, Sound; with Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Rudy Wurlitzer, Emile de Antonio, Jonas Mekas, Duane Michals, Louis Faurer, Elliot Erwitt, Ed Grazda, June Leaf, John Szarkowski, Lou Silverstein, Walter Gutman.

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank presents an intimate view of four decades of Frank’s life, films, and photographs. Many people with whom he has worked in the past are interviewed, including Allen Ginsberg, Emile de Antonio, Jonas Mekas, and Rudy Wurlitzer. Frank’s current thoughts on his life and art are also revealed.

Music video by Patti Smith performing Summer Cannibals. (C) 1996 Arista Records, Inc.

WG Sebald's last novel, like its predecessors, is illustrated with mysterious photographs. Sebald scholar Jonathan Long visits locations featured in the book and explores how the photographs correspond to (or conceal) reality. Clive Scott, Sebald's former colleague, recalls conversations with the author about the book. Michael Brandon-Jones, the technician who prepared Sebald's manuscripts for publication, talks about how the books were arranged and the different sources of the visual material they contain.

"I do have a personal discipline. I’ve only taken one picture of one thing – not two. I would take more than one and get so confused later trying to figure out what was the best frame. That’s ridiculous."

William Eggleston

CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIE IN THE USA - Cinematic workshop discussions about an art form in our day and age....

http://kcts9.org/conversations-kcts-9 Over the last 30 years, she has taken some of the best-known and most unusual photographs of the world's celebrities. A...

Judd Apatow & Matt Mahurin join Mark Seliger to talk about photographing tragedy, finding humanity with comedy, and meeting their heroes. From Tom Waits to Seth Rogen and Steve Martin to Henri Cartier-Bresson, they share stories of collaborating throughout their careers.