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CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIE IN THE USA
– Cinematic workshop discussions about an artwork kind
in our day and age.
Justification for the score
“Particularly worthwhile”:
The German Movie and Media Score Board primarily makes use of this highest score to evaluate the movie’s notably informative worth. On this case the movie has succeeded in documenting the particular individuality of elementary representatives of contemporary American images for the reason that early Fifties. This refers to each their strategies of working and private technique of expression, in addition to to their general perspective towards picture-graphy. The frequent denominators amongst them are the rapid means through which they seize on a regular basis actuality and their efforts to permit folks and issues to talk for themselves. For some, the matter at hand stands completely within the foreground; others attempt to make actuality clear for topics that frequent sense tells us is intangible.
In every case the movie succeeds in depicting the inventive precept as proven within the pictures as soon as once more in the best way the photographers are characterised through phrases and pictures. This happens accompanied by a definite ‘really feel’ for every individual’s work ambiance. The profitable coupling of movie footage and stills thereby proves to be an intriguing component.
Documented photographers: Robert Frank, Duane Michals, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Thomas Roma, Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Callahan, Lisette Mannequin, Ralph Gibson, Mark Cohen, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore
English – Color – PAL or NTSC – 4:3 – 52 Minuten – Germany 1982
© Michael Engler Filmproduktion
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