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For the first time on British television, BBC Four chronicles the history of photography, in a major landmark series The Genius Of Photography.



The series considers the importance of photography as an art form, looking at a multitude of the world's greatest photographs, interspersed with exclusive interviews with renowned photographers such as William Klein and Martin Parr.



The series conjures up a picture of just how the camera has changed the way in which people view themselves and the world around them.



Continuing the photography theme comes an incredible nine-part series, Archive Of The World, in which thousands of stunning colour photographs from the early 20th century are unveiled.



They were commissioned by French financier Albert Khan as one of the most ambitious photographic projects ever to be undertaken, and the documentary series charts his amazing photographic journey across continents.
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Taken from :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/01_january/17/bbcfour.shtml


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Well it can't be that good - especially as they were calling it the genius of photography. .... They've not even contacted me! :lol:
 
Thanx for the heads up Marcel ... :thumbs: ... just gotta remember to keep an eye on things for the start of them now ... :eek:





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Brilliant, I love this kind of program.
 
Will be looking forward to these - does that mean the BBC is actually spending money on programmes Im interested in for once:eek:

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Think this might be it.......

http://www.walltowall.co.uk/videoclip.aspx?w2wProgram=15

The first comprehensive television history of the most influential art form of the present day.



This landmark series for BBC2 and BBC4 will explore the key events and images that have marked the development of photography. At the heart of the series will be a quest to understand what makes a truly great photograph.

Programme 1: Fixing the Shadows
This tells the story of the inventions of photography and the way in which it became an integral part of the modern world. It describes the remarkable achievements of the pioneer photographers, the revolution that took place when George Eastman made photography available to the masses with the invention of the Kodak brand and the story of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, the child photographer and ultimate amateur. .

Programme 2: Documents for Artists
Following the First World War, photography was the central medium of the age. ‘Anyone who fails to understand photography’, said the photographer Lazlo Moholy-Nagy ‘will be one of the illiterates of the future’. Episode Two examines in detail the work of some of the greatest and most influential modern photographers: Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander, Man Ray, Walker Evans and Bill Brandt. With contributions from Martin Parr, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Mark Haworth-Booth.

Programme 3: Right Place, Right Time?
‘Being in the right place at the right time’, ‘the decisive moment’, ‘getting in close’—in the popular imagination this is photography at its best, a medium that makes us eyewitnesses to the moments when history is made. Set against the backdrop of the Second World War and its aftermath, this examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima With contributions from Magnum legends Philip Jones Griffiths and Susan Meiselas, soldier-lensman Tony Vaccaro and Jon Snow.

Programme 4: Paper Movies
The three decades from the late 1950s onwards was the real golden age of photographic journeys. Programme 4 relives the journeys that produced some of the ‘greatest paper movies’ ever: Including Robert Frank’s odyssey through 50s America and William Klein’s one-man assault on the sidewalks of New York. It also examines the arrival of colour as a credible medium for ‘serious’ photographers, as controversial at the time as Dylan going electric. Contributors include legendary photographers like William Klein, William Eggleston, Robert Adams, Joel Sternfeld, Joel Meyerowitz and artist Ed Ruscha.

Programme 5: We are Family
Having conquered the street and the road, photographers approached the final frontier: the home, the self, private life. Programme 5 is about the pictures that photographers take of other people and the pictures they take of themselves. It’s about what happens when photography translates personal relationships into photographic ones. The chronological heartland of the programme is the 1970s (the ‘me’ decade) and the 1980s (the ‘me, me, me’ decade) and includes examination of Diane Arbus’s ‘freaks’, Richard Avedon’s confrontations with celebrities like Marylin Monroe and the confessional diaries of Nan Goldin and Araki.

Programme 6: Snap Judgements
The final programme asks what a photograph is worth these days. We also look at the impact of the digital post-production techniques that make anything possible and the rediscovery of techniques which are taking photography back to the 19th century. With contributions from Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, Gregory Crewdson and China’s leading photographer Wang Qingsong.

Contact nick.pawsey@walltowall.co.uk for a screener.


Genre: Arts / Documentary
Duration: 6 x 60'
Broadcaster: BBC 2 / BBC 4 / ITV1
Distributor: Wall To Wall
Completion Date: December 2006

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Any ideas on when these are to air?? I'll set them onto Sky+ as soon as I know! :D
 
I'm excited like a bloke who is way too excited!

I need to know when these are on. I have to. My future depends on it.
 
Contacted the beeb, they have no dates yet for this, but apparently they work on a 10 days before for the schedule??? so we best keep our eyes peeled!!!!
 
Why is there no photography information or instructional programmes on Sky or ordinary council telly. Surely there must be a viewing market, after all there are thousands, if not millions of photographers who would tune in. America has photoshop instruction on T.V. why not here.
 
There are a few but usually the best we get is Marcel giving us the tip off 1 minute before airing when we're all at work :D

Usually the Arts channel and Adventure One tend to carry documentaries about photo journalists and some of the great photographers.

There was a series called A Digital Picture Of Britain by Tom Ang a year or two ago on the BBC which was quite interesting, but other than that theres been very little.
 
Right lastest update, the people who made this series have got back to me with the following...

Hi Glen
Its currently scheduled for July 2007 but this could be subject to change. Best to keep an eye on the BBC web site for further info.
 
July?? I'll be an old man by then!
 
I'll be an older man by then :eek:
 
Chickenhawk said:
America has photoshop instruction on T.V. why not here.
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thats something i would really like to see, still i guess we will just have to settle for much more educational programs like eastenders and big brother, what a cynic i am :lol:
 
Hey guys!
"Genius of Photography" series starts this thursday at 9pm. Think irs repeated on following monday. Cant wait!!
 
Don't forget this starts tonight on BBC4 9PM:D
 
Chickenhawk said:
[...] after all there are thousands, if not millions of photographers who would tune in.
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Dream on, chicky.
There are thousands, if not millions of snapshooters!
But any kind of editing is intellectually beyond 'm. Too 'complicated'.

America has photoshop instruction on T.V. why not here.
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Not enough viewers to make an interesting market to warrant the cost of "photoshop instruction on T.V.".
 
Staggerlee said:
Don't forget this starts tonight on BBC4 9PM:D
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Please record it for the rest of us who haven't got BBC4.

If you then upload it to your own mail account, using either Pando.com, or Podmail.com, you could copy the link and post it here so that we can download and watch the episode too.
 
W.Smith said:
Please record it for the rest of us who haven't got BBC4.

If you then upload it to your own mail account, using either Pando.com, or Podmail.com, you could copy the link and post it here so that we can download and watch the episode too.
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If I had the means to do this I would.:(
Maybe some one else could help?

You could maybe try and sign up to the BBC iplayer it may be shown on there for a week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
 
Staggerlee said:
You could maybe try and sign up to the BBC iplayer it may be shown on there for a week.
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Unfortunately:
when the BBC released its new iPlayer watch-on-demand service, there were many complaints about the fact it was Windows-only — the equivalent of current BBC broadcasts only being watchable on, say, a Sony television. The good news is that the BBC has announced a Flash-based player for Linux and Mac due by the end of the year ( . . . ). (The announcement is buried half way down the page.) The bad news is that it will probably only offer streaming, and not the ability to download programs, like the Windows client has.

So the BBC sold out to Micro$haft, and leaves Mac and Linux owners in the lurch!
 
Thanks for the reminder Staggerlee, duly bookmarked on my Sky Planner :)
 
Have set up my Sky+ with series link as we're up the rugby club tonight and most Thursdays
 
Thanks for the reminder. :)

Programme set in my DVR.

Just noticed that the programme about Chambre Hardman, a photographer based in Liverpool, is on afterwards. It is a fascinating programme from what I remember, showing the people and places of Liverpool in the mid part of the 2oth century. And also all of the work, and the building he left behind.

You can read a bit about him here.

Worth a look. ;)
 
W.Smith said:
Unfortunately:
when the BBC released its new iPlayer watch-on-demand service, there were many complaints about the fact it was Windows-only — the equivalent of current BBC broadcasts only being watchable on, say, a Sony television. The good news is that the BBC has announced a Flash-based player for Linux and Mac due by the end of the year ( . . . ). (The announcement is buried half way down the page.) The bad news is that it will probably only offer streaming, and not the ability to download programs, like the Windows client has.

So the BBC sold out to Micro$haft, and leaves Mac and Linux owners in the lurch!
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or more likely, they made it available to the largest market possible at the time. I don't see why its a problem that they release the windows version then the mac version later, rather than making everyone waiting until the end of the year.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
I don't see why its a problem that they release the windows version then the mac version later
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The problem is that Maccers can't get what Windozers can, Jimmy . . .

How would you like your TV brand being able only to receive the BBC next year?

Mañana.
 
Its just the same with games etc, they come out on the platform they are made for first, then made to work on others. Thats the way it is. It would a crazy world if EVERYTHING ever made had to work on anything possible, just so everyone was happy.
 
W.Smith said:
Great!
So can you upload it tomorrow via either Pando.com, or Podmail.com, and post the link here, red?
Please?
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Sadly no, :( my DVR's 2-3 years old and the only output is a SCART out. You'll have to hope somebody has a more up to date DVR and knows how to do what you ask. :shrug:
 
is it not repeated on BBC2, next monday ?? :shrug:
 
I'll be there ... interrupting WORK too ... :suspect: ... so it better be good ... :shrug:






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