American image: 150 years of photography. Images of the Masters. 1988. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). Chronicles American history in photographs since the Civil War and also contains the artistic works of established photographers. VHS 2538
American photography: a century of images. PBS Video database of America's history & culture. 1999? 3 videocassettes (180 min.). Presents the range of photography in the United States in the 20th century. Topics include artistic photography, photojournalism and home photography. The series mentions the technological change and the impact that photographs have whether they are personal or newsworthy. VHS 6917
Ansel Adams. 2002. 1 videocassette (ca. 105 min.). Intimate portrait of a great artist and ardent environmentalist-for whom life and art, photography and wilderness, creativity and communication, love and expression, were inextricably connected. VHS 6990
Ansel Adams, photographer. 1986. 1 videocassette (60 min.). A portrait of Ansel Adams, one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, that captures the spirit and artistry of the man as he talks about his life and demonstrates the techniques which have made his work legendary. VHS 315
Art 21: Art in the twenty-first century. 2001. 2 videocassettes (ca. 240 min.). Meet twenty-one diverse contemporary artists, including photographer Sally Mann, through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration and creative processes. The program is divided into four general themes - place, spirituality, identity, and consumption. VHS 7394
Barbara Kruger: Pictures & words. Art / New York. 1996. 1 videocassette (28 min). Barbara Kruger's art blends the pragmatic world of advertising and graphic design, a highly developed aesthetic sense and a razor sharp political viewpoint that touches on such themes as patriarchy and our consumer culture as she makes work that not only questions the traditional modes of making art, but work that forcefully interjects itself into our preconceived values and social systems. Seen are two recent shows at the Mary Boone Gallery in SOHO as well as work done in the streets of New York. In interviews, author Kate Linker and critic Peter Schjeldahl discuss the artist's work. VHS 6391
Behind the scenes with Carrie Mae Weems. Behind the scenes: Curriculum Materials Center. 1992. 1 videocassette (30 min.). This is a visit with photographer Carrie Mae Weems who gives children a glimpse of how photographers decide what goes into their pictures, and how framing and composition give meaning to the photographer's work. VHS 1924
The Best or nothing. Images, 150 years of photography. 1990. 1 videocassette (26 min.). The private collector of photography has emerged relatively recently. This program examines the passions of the private collector. VHS 1513
Coming to light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians. 2000. 1 videocassette (56 min.). Edward S. Curtis was an American photographer whose documentation of Native Americans is appreciated today especially by their descendants for the preservation of their culture. VHS 6817
Contacts: Sebastião Salgado. 1989. 1 videocassette (14 min.). Describes the photographic work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado. Salgado discusses stories through the use of contact sheets and he gives his interpretation of their artistic meaning. VHS 1975
Contacts: Elliot Erwitt. 1989. 1 videocassette (12 min.). Photographer Erwitt discusses the importance of contact sheets in enabling a photographer to choose the best of several similar photographs. A photograph should have both artistic composition and symbolic or social meaning. He uses as examples his contact sheets from Spain (1951), the railroad station in Budapest (1964), a man folding a beach umbrella, the "kitchen debate" between Nixon and Khrushchev in 1959, a California beach (1984), a fashion photography assignment, and candid shots of children. VHS 2141
Damned in the USA. 1993. 1 videocassette (77 min.). British documentary about art, censorship issues and First Amendment rights in the United States. In the USA, Congressional Senators, together with representatives from family and religious organizations oppose the explicit depiction of sex acts by various media artists, especially those who receive government funding. Program contains illustrations from some of the material under discussion - from the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy to the debate over the lyrics of 2 Live Crew, from government sponsorship of artists to morally motivated boycotts, film looks at the censorship debate in all its complexity. VHS 2172
Dirty pictures. 2000. 1 videocassette (104 min.). A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 to protect the right of freedom of expression on behalf of a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit. VHS 7228
Domestic memories. Images, 150 years of photography. 1989. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Demonstrates how people reflect their own reality in taking photographs and participating in photography. Two photographers from northern Britain are featured as well as the Kodak Collection, National Museum of Television, Film and Photography, Bradford and the Documentary Photographic Archive. VHS 1512
Dorothea Lange. Against the odds. 1988. 1 videocassette (VHS) (13 min.). The story of photographer Dorothea Lange. Trained as a society photographer, she began documenting the effects of the Depression on ordinary Americans in the 1930's. Her images spoke eloquently of the plight of the poor and brought the distress and desperation of the Depression into the consciousness of the public. VHS 1416
Eye to eye. 1989. 1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min.). Impressions of Robert Mapplethorpe and his work as related by one of his models. VHS 7349
The Eyes of empire. Images, 150 years of photography. 1990. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Draws on the anthropological photographic collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford ; the Royal Anthropological Institute ; and the Cambridge University. The program also deals with the work of an amateur archaeologist, Gertrude Bell. VHS 1514
The Films of Charles & Ray Eames. 1993. 1 videocassette (59 min.). Design Q&A: is a witty statement about design. -- IBM mathematics peep shows: explores intriguing mathematical concepts. -- SX-70: presents the aesthetic potential of the Land camera and the Eames' approach to photography. -- Copernicus: evokes the astronomer's universe. -- Fiberclass chairs: looks at their design and production. -- Goods: looks at a three-screen slide show. VHS 3418 v.4
Hello photo. 1995? 1 videocassette (55 min.). Disconnected scenes of a year's travel in India give the impression of walking from one place or event to another. Scenes include crowds, animals, a jute factory, a wedding, a prison, a pol games, buildings and statuary. VHS 3614
Images, 150 years of photography. 1990. [6] videocassettes (26 min. each). A series of film essays on various aspects of photography throughout its history, with examples drawn from over twenty collections in the U.S., Canada, Britain, and France. VHS 1511-6
Images in media. 2003. 1 videodisc (28 min.). A behind-the-scenes look at the media's image-makers, from the first photographers to today's Madison Avenue wizards; asks some disturbing questions about the self-selected few who hold a distorted mirror up to our society. VHS 6133
Light in the West: Photography and the American frontier. 1980. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Presents a history of photography in the American West using the work of such masters as Watkins, Muybridge, O'Sullivan, Jackson, Soule, and Russell. VHS 583
Looking back at you. 1998. 1 videocassette (59 min.). Examines the photography of Sebastião Salgado and places his photographs into the context in which they were taken. Places particular emphasis on his book, "Workers". VHS 6356
The Magic mirror. Images, 150 years of photography. 1990. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Draws on major photographic collections and the words of major photographers to show the "life-line" of photography. The producers select their own favorite photographs to trace the history of photography as an art form. VHS 1516
Nan Goldin: In my life. Art/New York. 1997. 1 videocassette (28 min). The work of Nan Goldin, one of the major photographers of the latter part of the 20th century, is featured through a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition was organized by Elizabeth Sussman and selected by Goldin and David Armstrong. Interviews with Goldin and Marvin Heiferman are included. VHS 5795
The Pencil of nature. Images, 150 years of photography. 1990. 1 videocassette (25 min.). An overview of the early history of photography. Discusses "The Pencil of nature," by William Henry Fox Talbot, the first book with photographs used as illustrations, and looks at 19th-century developments in photography, often made by amateurs. VHS 1511
The Photographer's eye. 1983. 1 videocassette (29 min.). Explores the use of creative photography in enlarging our perception of everyday sights. Focuses on the work of Garry Winogrand and Emmet Gowin. VHS 42
Photographer Sam Abell's art of simplicity. 1989. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Abell relates the pictures he takes to his visual thinking: what he sees and how he interprets his impressions, finally translating them into pictures. He identifies stylistic qualities in his work, reveals the rewards of patience during the shoot, and explores the value of pictures that transcend their literal meaning. VHS 824
The Real thing. Images, 150 years of photography. 1990. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Looks at the result achieved when photographers are commissioned to reflect the world. Focuses on the work of the U.S. Farm Security Agency in the 1930s and visits the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, where photography forms an integral part of the collection. Shows photographers at work: Chris Killip in Ohio and Clement Cooper in northern England. VHS 1515
Robert Mapplethorpe. 1988. 1 videocassette (53 min.). Opens with actress Kathy Acker reading excerpts from A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud. Robert Mapplethorpe, his friends and associates, and art critics discuss his photography that is hung in many major museums despite the issues of sex, violence and race it raises. Mapplethorpe states that he "captured something at a certain time about a certain place, New York, and that can't be captured anymore... Things have changed." Program includes many of his black and white photographs, particularly those of the gay male community in New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. VHS 874
The Searching eye. Educational Awareness Presentation. 1985. 1 videocassette (24 min.). Uses still images to present a study of freelance documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark, a photographer committed to making powerful images from disturbing, even dangerous, subjects such as drug abuse, teen pregnancy, runaways, and bordello life in India. Discusses her philosophy and commitment to telling important stories in depth through words and pictures. Reveals how one may fulfill a documentary commitment in the "real world" of commercial necessities, photographing for money to pay one's way in life. It provides evidence that "hard" and "dangerous" self-assigned subjects have appeal and interest to commercial publishers. VHS 709
Seeing for himself. 1990. 1 videocassette (27 min.). William Albert Allard describes his photography as being " ... concerned with the human condition .... [and strives with his portraits] to make you think you know a little about this person, what he does, what he might like, what his life might be like, even what music he might listen to.". VHS 822
Sharing the dream: Brian Lanker photographs Black women who changed America. 1989. 1 videocassette (45 min.). Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker shares the elements of his two-year project photographing 75 great black women. The program details how he obtained grant funding, gained access to his subjects, and guided the work into both a book (I dream a world) and a show at the Corcoran Gallery. VHS 823
The True meaning of pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia. 2003. 1 videodisc (ca. 71 min.). Shelby Lee Adams has been photographing the eastern Kentucky Appalachian mountain people for thirty years. Accused of perpetuating stereotypes, Adams is said to exploit her subjects. This documentary explores the controversy. DVD 814
War photographer. 2003. 1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.). James Nachtwey has been very close to the subjects he photographs and has been that way for over 20 years - a time period in which he has not missed a single war. Follow as James goes from Kosovo to the West Bank to Indonesia as he searches for pictures he can publish. This committed, shy man, is considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time. DVD 717
A Wave from the Atlantic. American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this fifth segment waves of immigrants in the early 20th century bring both their old culture and a thirst for the new. The tenements are documented by photographer Jacob Riis and the socially conscious Ashcan School. Then, after the historic 1913 Armory show, artists like Joseph Stella, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz forge a modernism that is uniquely American. Film also presents the work of Robert Henri, George Bellows, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mabel Dodge Luhand, Marsden Hartley and Frank Lloyd Wright. VHS 4575
The Wizard of photography. 2000. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Dramatizes the life story of Eastman as he fought relentlessly to create and then dominate the consumer camera market. VHS 6408
