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Photo: A History from Behind the Lens
Trailer: Photo: A History from Behind the Lens
Runtime: 26:14 minutes
Quality: HD
First Air Date: Dec 13, 2009
Last Air date: Dec 08, 2013
Episode: 12 Episode
Season: 1 Season

Photo: A History from Behind the Lens Season 1

Surrealist Photography
They include names such as Man Ray, Dora Maar, Alvarez Bravo, Brassaï, André Kertész and Henri Cartier-Bresson, who gure among the...

The Primitives of Photography, 1850-1860
In the middle of the 19th century, 25 years after its invention, photography is still considered as a simple scientific curiosity. But between 1850...

The New German Objectivity
This episode recounts the New Objectivity evolution in photographic practice, the symbol of which is the Dusseldorf school. For the Bechers,...

Staged Photography
For almost the entire 20th century, photography was mainly realist. But from the 1960s, "staged photography" was no longer considered naïve or...

Pictorialism
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...

New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s
Criticism of the 1920s heralded the arrival of "The New Photographer", which was a typically European phenomenon. This photographic avant-garde,...

Photographing Intimacy
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...

The Inventors
1839 marked the "official" birth of photography. Some seek to reduce the invention of photography to an obstacle course from which the shrewd...

Found Images
From the 19th Century, painters have collected documentary photographs using them as models for their own works. The artistic avant-garde of the 20th...

Press Usage
The alliance of signature photography and mainstream press led photography to become the popular image of the 20th century. The magazines that...

Conceptual Photography
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)...

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

Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark (2017)
Travel with renowned photographer Joel Sartore as he photographs at-risk and rare species in the wild, in zoos, in nature preserves and explores his...

Spy in the Ocean, A Nature Miniseries (2023)
Go deep beneath the waves – on a spy mission to the depths of the ocean. Amazing hidden cameras give incredible perspectives on the ingenious...

Tales by Light (2015)
Behind every powerful image is a powerful story. Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales By Light follows photographers from...

Vile Bodies (1998)
Documentary miniseries about contemporary artists who create challenging views of the human body. One of a 3-part series exploring how contemporary...

The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn (2007)
Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with...

American Photography: A Century of Images (1999)
Three-part series exploring the impact that photography has had on American life in the twentieth century. The story of pictures we have taken and...