La Photographie

In 1840 it took 5'30" to make a photograph.

Fotovision: Photographie, Poesie, Musik

A Fotovision movie by Eckhart Schmidt

The Cinema and the Wind and Photography

How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”, a “foreign homeland of reality”, where the pre-filmic, stripped of its immediacy,

Germaine Krull, la photographie ou la vie

Alongside André Kertész and Man Ray, Germaine Krull invented the New Vision in photography, an innovative way of seeing and revealing the modern world. Recognized by the art world as one of the greatest photographers of

Long Distance Wireless Photography

Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects a painting of th

Une photographie de la maison

Gilles Ehrmann et la photographie

Essay film about a little known original and systematic work, that of Gilles Ehrmann, a photographer whose creative approach has deliberately kept away from easy modes and effects. This authenticity was praised among oth

The Little Girl with Napalm, History of a Photograph

Trang Bang, South Vietnam, 8 June 1972. The air force mistakenly drops bombs on a temple that houses civilians. Among the group of journalists witnessing the drama, the young photographer Nick Ut realizes, on that day, t

Le Photographe Photographié - Brassaï par Varda

Photographie d'une étoile

A photographer welcomes a theather actress into his studio for a glamor shoot.

The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon

Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

Photographies & Cie

Rigadin Ne Veut Pas Se Faire Photographier

Confusion and mirth ensue when a photographer takes a sneaky picture of Rigadin with his wife, a woman who happens to look very similar to someone else's wife.

Avant l'oubli ? - 86 Photographies pour mémoire(s)

Variations on Two Photographs of Tina Modotti

Originally, the images of Variations on two photographs by Tina Modotti were engraved directly on 16mm film to be projected as a backdrop for Louis Bédard's choreographic piece entitled Elles, which was inspired by the l

Marc Riboud, photographier le XXème siècle

Lebende Photographien auf einem laufenden Bande

Documentary about the film pioneer Guido Seeber.

Story of My Life Told by My Photographs

Through many photographs, he tells the story and allows his story to be told by those photographed. This is where the brilliant documentary reversal takes place.

Photographies de N à Z

“Two dense, humming rainbows, their curves disappearing into the still whitish sky between dawn and day. Jets and clouds of vapor and, in height, these two bursts are replicated, twice four bands of neon, blue echoes red

The Invention of Racism in Color

Between 1907 and 1909, Robert Lohmeyer (1879-1959), a German pioneer of color photography, traveled through the German colonies in Africa and portrayed their landscapes and native peoples in color for the first time, thu