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1) Dreamland
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thomas, a photographer from France, goes to Japan and receives an assignment to take pictures of abandoned places. Lonely and isolated, he meets Natsuki, a young and beautiful woman who becomes his model. But even though Thomas begins to acclimate to his environment, he begins having panic attacks and nightmares.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles American photographer Dorothea Lange, who came to the the attention of the world with her photographs documenting the Great Depression, and achieved lasting fame in the post-War years.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
DVD-R. Photographer Jim Marshall captures the heights of the Rock and Roll music era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the '60s.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary about legendary photographer Bill Cunningham features photographs chosen from over three million previously unpublicized images and documents from the iconic street photographer and fashion historian. Told in Cunningham's own words from a 1994 interview, the photographer chronicles moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times...
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary about an important American still photographer who captured New York City in the 1960s (his work there is said to have influenced the TV show Mad Men) and later the West in Texas and Los Angeles.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Brilliant, ambitious, and mischievous, the 19th-century San Francisco photographer Eadweard Muybridge lived the lives of a dozen men before his breakthrough photographs of running horses set the course for the development of cinema and transformed the camera into a machine of unmatched perception and persuasion. But hiding in Muybridge's work are clues that provoke an enduring question: Can we believe what we see in a photograph?
7) Triage
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a traumatic near-death experience in Kurdistan, Mark, a battle-scarred war photographer, returns home without his friend and colleague David. As Mark struggles to recover, he reveals the shocking truth behind David's disappearance.
8) City of God
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
See the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. Based on the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographer's candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism. Today it is a classic work that helped define the off-the-cuff, idiosyncratic elegance that are hallmarks of Frank's artistry.
12) Rock prophecies
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores Robert Knight's amazing career and follows him on his quest to help the bands of today become the rock legends of tomorrow, whether promoting Panic at the Disco before anybody has heard of them or convincing Aussie band Sick Puppies to sell everything and move to the United States. When Robert stumbles upon Tyler Dow Bryant, a 16-year-old guitar phenom from Texas, he's convinced he may have found the next Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus.
14) Tracking Edith
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Every family has its secrets. Director Peter Stephan Jungk had always known that his Austrian-born great aunt, Edith Tudor-Hart, was a talented documentary photographer. But it was not until twenty years after her death in 1973 that he learned she had led a double life, and changed the course of history. Jungk unravels what had been a well-kept secret by speaking with military historians, photo archivists, ex-KGB agents, and family members.
16) Blowup
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
17) Spring & Arnaud
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This cinematically gorgeous documentary about two unique characters is also an unforgettable look at art, love and mortality. Arnaud Maggs, turning 85, embarks on a series of self portraits that wryly depict his life's work. Spring Hurlbut, at 60, is creating haunting works that evoke mortality while harboring the certainty that her partner Arnaud's time is limited. Together and alone, each grapples with the nature of creativity when the drive for...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Famed street photographer Ricky Powell made a name for himself taking wild portraits of New York City's who's who in the 80s and 90s. From the Beastie Boys to Basquiat, Powell's lens captured the grit and glamour of the city's downtown scene like never before. Powell and some of his notable subjects reflect on his fascinating life and work as well as the demons that shaped him.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
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