Jeff Malmberg has created a film, Marwencol, about artist/photographer Mark Hogencamp,”a former alcoholic who was beaten into a coma after a night at a bar
Category: Film & TV
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L E N S C R A T C H: Mark Hogencamp
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National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010 – The Big Picture
National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010
National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate the
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/11/national_geographics_photograp.html
National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate them as well. National Geographic was again kind enough to let me choose some of their entries from 2010 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 47 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Captions were written by the individual photographers. (47 photos total)
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Errol Morris, Andrew Jarecki on Documentary Faces – NYTimes.com
Documentaries and Ties That Bind or Unravel
Not all of the human subjects of documentaries enjoy enduring relationships with the filmmakers. Errol Morris, Andrew Jarecki and other directors explain.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/movies/07lives.html?_r=1
IN 2002, while he was making “Capturing the Friedmans,” his investigation of a notorious child-abuse prosecution on Long Island, the director Andrew Jarecki received a piece of documentary wisdom. “When this is over,” Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, told him, “you will have had one of the most amazing experiences of your life. You’ll understand your subjects in a way you don’t understand your own family.
“And when the movie comes out, you’ll never talk to them again.”
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John Waters narrates tiny dollhouse murder doc – Boing Boing
John Waters narrates tiny dollhouse murder doc
Ohsolazysusan sez, “John Waters narrates the tiny world of big time murder in Of Dolls and Murder, a documentary film about dollhouse crime scenes (the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death),…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/11/john-waters-narrates.html
I love images that elicit this reaction: “How did you ever get that picture?”
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Martin Adler: The War Reporter – Telegraph
Martin Adler: The War Reporter
A documentary about the photojournalist and filmmaker Martin Adler, who was murdered in Somalia in 2006.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8028060/Martin-Adler-The-War-Reporter.html
The 52 minute documentary film by director Thomas Nordanstad is almost exclusively based on raw footage, rushes and DV tapes from the reporter’s camera, building up narrative stories with elements that could represent “a day at work” for a war reporter. Adler spent nearly 20 years of traveling around the world, covering wars and conflicts in more than 30 countries.
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Adrian Grenier’s ‘Meta’ Documentary on HBO – NYTimes.com
A Kid With a Camera and a Documenter
Adrian Grenier, the star of HBO’s “Entourage,” has made a surprisingly well-thought-out documentary, “Teenage Paparazzo.”
Link: http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/arts/television/27teenage.html?ref=television
Those annoyed by the trendy term meta are going to be disinclined to tune in “Teenage Paparazzo,” a film about a 14-year-old who takes pictures of famous actors, made by one of those actors, who became famous for playing a famous actor, being shown on the cable outlet that carries the famous actor’s show. Let’s pause briefly while you go take some antidizziness pills.
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Catfish: Love in the Time of Facebook
Shot on the fly by Ariel “Rel” Schulman and Henry Joost, the film chronicles an online relationship that develops between Schulman’s brother, charismatic 20-something New York photographer Nev, and a family in Michigan who, the filmmakers discover mid-filming, aren’t who they purport to be.
Link: Catfish: Love in the Time of Facebook – Page 1 – Film+TV – Los Angeles – LA Weekly
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Four Lions: This is Spinal Tap for suicide bombers
Four Lions: This is Spinal Tap for suicide bombers
Parenthood has seriously put a crimp in our moviegoing activities, but every now and again Alice and I get to go see something, and we always try to pick a good one. We scored big on Saturday night…
Ruth Fremson has seen a great deal of war, disaster and poverty. To be able to depict suffering, photographers have to step back and observe, holding themselves a bit apart from the situation — if they can — for just a moment or two. That doesn’t mean, however, that their own emotions can simply be shelved.
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Too Many Lenses, Too Few Eyes – Lens
Too Many Lenses, Too Few Eyes
“Camera, Camera” documents the colonization of a fragile culture by camera-carrying travelers, something Seth Mydans has seen firsthand.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/essay-18/
A new documentary, “Camera, Camera,” begins with a shot of the Laotian countryside as seen on the viewing screen of a small camera. As it proceeds, the film alternates between vistas of rural Laos in its natural beauty and the viewing-screen versions of those vistas. This duplicates the experience of many travelers today, who compose their experience through camera lenses as they go and then take the pixelated images home with them in place of memories.
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A Photo Editor – Double Exposure – Klinko and Indrani
Double Exposure – Klinko and Indrani – A Photo Editor
I missed the premiere of this new Bravo show on photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani last night but if this review and these cringe worthy clips are any indication I don’t think I’ll be watching any of it. Markus Klinko, the celebrity photographer who
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/06/16/double-exposure-klinko-and-indrani/
I missed the premiere of this new Bravo show on photographers Markus Klinko and Indrani last night but if this review and these cringe worthy clips are any indication I don’t think I’ll be watching any of it.
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Smash His Camera
The documentary about legendary American Paparazzo Ron Galella ‘Smash His Camera‘ premieres tonight on HBO at 9.00pm.
Link: Smash His Camera
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The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia – Boing Boing
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
☠ All cameras aimed at a grinning Johnny Knoxville—flanked by a bluegrass band—outside the theater where “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” made its Los …
As the film unfolds, we meet more upstanding Boone County residents: attorneys, churchgoing folks with jobs. Through both what they do and do not say, we learn how the Whites have terrorized the town they dominate for decades.
Asked to comment on the reputation of the White family early in the film, Boone County evangelist Patricia Smith pauses, then says—”I’d really rather not comment on that.” Who can blame her? These are deadly rednecks.
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Protests turn deadly in Thailand – The Big Picture
Protests turn deadly in Thailand
The political protest in Bangkok, Thailand has been active for nearly two months now, and has entered a new, deadly phase in the past week, with at least 36 of the total 60 deaths occurring in just the last few days. Ant-government “Red Shirt” protesters
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/protests_turn_deadly_in_thaila.html
photos of the recent turmoil in central Bangkok
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From Many Instants, a Moment – Lens
From Many Instants, a Moment
Here are 22 pictures that you submitted. As of Sunday evening, there were at least 9,977 other photos waiting to be published.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/readers-13/
Every time we expect the best of Lens readers, they do better.
With more than a bit of promotional hyperbole, we invited everyone with a camera to take a picture on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 hours U.T.C. and submit it to The New York Times. For our part, we promised to cobble these together into a mosaic portrait of one “Moment in Time” around the world.
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Dennis Hopper: actor, director and – yes – brilliant photographer
Dennis Hopper: actor, director and – yes – brilliant photographer | Sean O’Hagan
Sean O’Hagan: Those who accuse Hopper of being an amateur snapper miss the point: the photographs that will go on show at LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art are an inspired blend of Hollywood gloss and the miraculous everyday
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/26/dennis-hopper-photograph-moca
Those who accuse Hopper of being an amateur snapper miss the point: the photographs that will go on show at LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art are an inspired blend of Hollywood gloss and the miraculous everyday
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Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham – Lens
Capturing the Elusive Bill Cunningham
At 81, Bill Cunningham is probably the hardest working photojournalist in New York. Richard Press and Philip Gefter tried to keep up.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/behind-38/
the miracle of “Bill Cunningham New York,” a new 88-minute documentary about the photographer of “On the Street” and “Evening Hours,” is that its subject agreed to participate in the first place.
