RECOMMENDED FILMS & VIDEOS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHERS

Movies about Photographers:
• Finding Vivien Maier: documentary about the newly discovered street photographer
• What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
• William Eggleston In the Real World
• The Woodmans, about Francesca Woodman and her parents
• Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light
• The Eloquent Nude, about Edward and his wife, model and muse Charis Wilson
• Naked World and Naked Truth, about public nude photo projects by Spencer Tunik
• Wasteland, Vik Munez
• Manufactured Landscapes, about Edward Burtynsky
• Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
• Fur, about Diane Arbus
• Annie Liebowitz: Life Through A Lens
• Salt of the Earth, by Wim Wenders, about Brazilian Sabatio Salgado (a must see!)

Movies about Artists:
• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, about Chinese dissident multimedia artist Ai Weiwei
• Marina Abramovic: the Artist Is Present, Eastern European performance artist
• Rivers and Tides, about environmental sculptor and photographer Andy Goldsworthy
• Touch the Sound, documentary about deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie

Movies Photographers Should See:

• Spring Summer Fall Winter… and Spring (2003), incredible Korean film about life in a Zen temple on a small island
• Baraka (1992), non-narritive documentary
• Poyaanisqatasi (1981), a visual feast with music by Philip Glass
• Koyaanisqatasi (1983), another visual feast with music by Philip Glass
• Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Chinese
• Winged Migration (2001), documentary
• Wings of Desire, directed by Wim Wenders
• Dreams (1990), Japanese, directed by Akira Kurosawa
• Rashomon, Seven Samurai, or any Akira Kurosawa film…

©Douglas Beasley 2016