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ARTE 2009 - 2013 1 season 12 eps Ended

Photo: A History from Behind the Lens

2009 - 2013 1 season 12 eps

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Season 1

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Season 1

25 min

S1 · E1 · Dec 13, 2009

Surrealist Photography Episode 1

They include names such as Man Ray, Dora Maar, Alvarez Bravo, Brassaï, André Kertész and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who gure among the greatest names in photography of the 20th century. In the 1930s, their images embodied the epitome of Surrealism.

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S1 · E2 · Nov 4, 2012

The Primitives of Photography, 1850-1860 Episode 2

In the middle of the 19th century, 25 years after its invention, photography is still considered as a simple scientific curiosity. But between 1850 and 1860 a dozen of photographers, in France and in England, will get in a struggle to get photography acknowledged as an art. It will be the decade of Nadar, Le Gray, Baldus, Robison, Rejlander, Fenton. They will be the first ones to explore all posibilities of photographical creation and of its relations to reality.

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S1 · E3 · Nov 11, 2012

The New German Objectivity Episode 3

This episode recounts the New Objectivity evolution in photographic practice, the symbol of which is the Dusseldorf school. For the Bechers, photography was documentary in nature.

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S1 · E4 · Nov 18, 2012

Staged Photography Episode 4

For almost the entire 20th century, photography was mainly realist. But from the 1960s, "staged photography" was no longer considered naïve or passé, and made a major comeback, enriched by the external influences of film, theatre, performance and sculpture. This photography that was "infused" by other mediums played on the ambiguity of photographic realism.

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S1 · E5 · Nov 25, 2012

Pictorialism Episode 5

50 years after it was invented, photography once again sought to rival painting. The debate was as old as photography itself: is photography merely a simple, mechanical "imitation" of reality, or can it interpret reality subjectively, as drawing and painting can?

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S1 · E6 · Dec 2, 2012

New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s Episode 6

Criticism of the 1920s heralded the arrival of "The New Photographer", which was a typically European phenomenon. This photographic avant-garde, often politically located on the far-left, was embodied by Moholy-Nagy, Umbo, El Lissitzky and Rodtchenko.

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S1 · E7 · Nov 3, 2013

Photographing Intimacy Episode 7

Photography would appear to be extravert in nature, done to show us reality, the world at large and the “other”. But in the eighties, a movement appeared that sought to escape this “objective” vocation, and to transform the camera into a daily logbook, an apparatus of introspection, a personal diary.

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S1 · E8 · Nov 10, 2013

The Inventors Episode 8

1839 marked the "official" birth of photography. Some seek to reduce the invention of photography to an obstacle course from which the shrewd Daguerre emerged triumphant, once the good-natured Niepce had abandoned his pursuit, and thanks to the slowness of the perfectionist Talbot and the discreet Bayard. Photography, which featured myriad technical and artistic possibilities, was multi-faceted and progressive. It revolutionised our perspective and transformed our relationship to reality.

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S1 · E9 · Nov 17, 2013

Found Images Episode 9

From the 19th Century, painters have collected documentary photographs using them as models for their own works. The artistic avant-garde of the 20th Century takes hold the principle. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, a lot of artists are widely using the scrapbooking . These collections regularly leave the private circle and become a work base.

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S1 · E10 · Nov 24, 2013

Press Usage Episode 10

The alliance of signature photography and mainstream press led photography to become the popular image of the 20th century. The magazines that started appearing in the 1920s - such as BIZ in Germany, Vu in France, the Weekly Illustrated and Picture Post in England, and Life in the United States - broke away from the routine of the first illustrated magazines that used photography merely as an accompaniment for text. With these new magazines, photographs became primary vehicles of information.

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S1 · E11 · Dec 1, 2013

Conceptual Photography Episode 11

Instead of criticising photography in the name of painting, as had been done in the past, painters (from Andy Warhol to Ed Rucha and Bruce Nauman) used photography to criticise painting, engaging in an outright attack on the notion of “fine-arts” and the elitist character of artistic creation.

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S1 · E12 · Dec 8, 2013

After the Photo Episode 12

Will photography survive the 21st century? With the progressive but inevitable disappearance of traditional photography, the question has been asked since the 1980s.

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12 episodes in Season 1

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Explores the development of photography from its beginnings to more recent times.

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Juliette Garcias Director · Stan Neumann Director · Alain Nahum Director

Director Writer

Juliette Garcias

Director Writer

Stan Neumann

Director

Alain Nahum

Total runtime 5h 12m · Episode length 26 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

December 13, 2009

Final episode

December 8, 2013

Status

Ended

Network

ARTE

Country

France

Type

Documentary

Episode length

26 min

Total runtime

5h 12m

Original language

French

Production

C

Camera Lucida

Production

France

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Languages

Original title

Photo

Spoken on screen

French

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