Movies: Photography

The magnificent story of Anthony Maurice Tooton (I) as told by his Great-Grandson: Anthony McGrath Tooton (IV)....

Tracing the Future follows In the Wake exhibition artist Naoya Hatakeyama as he photographs the devastated landscape of his hometown of Rikuzentakada after 3/11. Hatakeyama, who represented Japan in the 2001 Venice Biennale and is renowned for meticu...

James Andersen: Over 50 Years of Taking Pictures is a culmination of photos, films that are brought to life with Andersen's own words. The James Andersen collection documents over 50 years of community life in and around Makkovik, Labrador. The stori...

In the film, images from archives of photographic documentation of encounters between politicians and activists in India with their counterparts in Japan, Mao’s China, and other Asian countries from the mid 1950s to the early ’60s are overlaid with t...

Mike O'Dwyer is an American teaching English in a small town in South Korea. What does he do when he's not teaching? He shoots heavy metal, of course!...

Her celebrated photograph Migrant Mother is one of the most recognized and arresting images in the world, a haunting portrait that came to represent the suffering of America’s Great Depression. Yet few know the story, struggles and profound body of w...

Willy Ronis lived his life between Paris and Provence capturing post-war life. From a historical shot to intimacy, his pictures speak of history and the idea of framing. He was the first French photographer to work for LIFE magazine....

With his grainy women's portraits, Gerard Fieret (1924-2009) managed to antagonize the entire late sixties establishment. In his mouse-infested studio he photographed his semi-or wholly undressed models as well as himself. His photographic work is in...

Seize the day, seize the hour and meet four female photographers, who may have a lot of experience under their belt, but who also continue to be courageous and curious at a level where everyone can (and should!) be inspired. The World is Out of Focus...

Photographer and documentary film director Schadt follows in the footsteps of his role model Robert Frank. The important photographer and director traveled through the United States in the mid-1950s and recorded his photographic impressions of this t...

A promotional documentary film starring Heather Hite, a Cleveland based photographer. Heather speaks about her approach to erotic photography in the lead up to the release of her first photography collection, Heavy Petting, from With an X Books....

A photographer looks at pictures of the last day of a boy's life....

This film follows the renowned photographer Fay Godwin on location with her camera complete with extensive interviews and analysis. She loved the countryside in all its raw beauty rather than the sugar-coated image so often portrayed in the coffee ta...

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This documentary follows film photographers Simon Riddell and David Allen as they try to turn an underground WWII oil storage facility in the Scottish Highlands into what may be the world’s largest darkroom. The once top-secret Inchindown storage fac...

Piotr Majdrowicz’s film The Misunderstanding of 1978 presents the story of a young photographer in love with an athlete who he photographs....

The best known, "Weegee's New York" (1948), presents a surprisingly lyrical view of the city without a hint of crime or murder. Already this film gives evidence, here very restrained, of Weegee's interest in technical tricks: blur, speeded up or slow...