the sociologist: Documentary Films, A Long List.
List By: osdeducation
This is the best of times, this is the worst of times. Here is a list of documentaries available online. If the links sink, please consult your friendly neighborhood library. Have a bleak weekend ahead, when in agony, act like Tilo (pictured above).
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For those of us on the East Coast who couldn’t make it to his lecture, you can watch Stephen Shore’s artist talk at SFMOMA online.
Magnum photographer, Martin Parr returns to using a film camera in this wonderfully engaging documentary about Teddy Gray’s sweet factory in Dudley in the West Midlands.
Established in 1826, Teddy Gray’s has always been a family owned and run business. Five generations have worked and contributed towards the business of keeping the traditional, hand-made methods of sweet making alive.
The film is part of the Black Country Stories body of work commissioned by Multistory to document life in the Black Country by capturing and celebrating the unique mix of communities living in the area and of existing traditional Black Country life.
Matt Stuart talks about his fascination with photographing the streets.
On the occasion of the exhibition at the Magnum Gallery Bruce Gilden comments his original maquette of the book Coney Island
An in depth talk about photographer Sam Haskins by his son Ludwig, part of the #picbod series held at Coventry University in 2011.
Ludwig can be reached by e-mail
The talk is also available as an Enhanced Podcast. For viewing options see this Tumblr page
This project was created with the same spirit that america was founded on. Our intentions are to connect everyone in america through the lens of this camera and social networking sites. We can’t do this without you. We want to tell your story and show your city or town through photographs of you, and people you know. As we travel around america looking for people and places to shoot you will be able to keep track of where we are going and help us decide where we go next. Join us in our journey by liking our facebook to get yourself photographed by us.
An extra special thanks to Brandon Rein, Scotty Hoffman and Trevor Atwater.
A film by Dan Perez de la Garza about photojournalists.
Featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Preston Gannaway and Rick Loomis, Emmy Award winner Paula Lerner, along with Todd Maisel, Chris Usher, Angela Rowlings, Edward Greenberg, Stan Wolfson, and Rita Reed.
February 14, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — In the age of tiny, high-tech cameras, Chicago photographer Dennis Manarchy has built — from scratch — a throwback to the age of early photography.
The camera is huge, filling almost his entire River North studio. It’s an old-style camera with futuristic results.
“It’s a 35- foot camera that produces original film negatives six feet tall. And the resolution of that negative is about a thousand times greater than anything else available on the planet at this time,” Manarchy said.
Manarchy works with a subject, sometimes for hours, just to take one photo of someone like fashion designer Sky Cubacub. Inside the bellows, of course, it would be pitch black, but he shows ABC7 how the six foot negative would be rolled into place. As for the shutter, there isn’t one.
“When I take the cover off, it’s dark so there’s no exposure until I flash it. So I take the cover off and flash it and put the cover back on,” Manarchy said.
The result is six foot negatives like these of World War II fighter pilot ace Bill Cullerton. In his 88 years, he has never seen anything like this.
“It’s just beautiful,” Cullerton said. “I can’t believe it’s happening to me.”
They enlarge the photos to two and-a-half stories high. The detail is incredible. You can see every eyelash and every pore. The camera captures the faces of America, much larger than life. And will travel the country recording the vanishing cultures.
“What we’re trying to do is capture this little essence of this country before it totally gets homogenized. Before everyone gets homogenized,” Manarchy said.
Just in case you’re thinking of having your photo taken, the cost is $50,000. To set up a sitting, call Chad at Manarchy Studios, 773 263-1950.
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COFFER—Produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui of Lost & Found Films
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Great little film about the great John Coffer. Stunning even.
