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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 Ranking Board primarily makes use of this highest score to evaluate the movie’s significantly informative worth. On this case the movie has succeeded in documenting the precise individuality of elementary representatives of recent 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 total angle towards photograph-graphy. The widespread denominators amongst them are the fast means wherein they seize on a regular basis actuality and their efforts to permit individuals and issues to talk for themselves. For some, the matter at hand stands solely within the foreground; others attempt to make actuality clear for topics that widespread sense tells us is intangible.
In every case the movie succeeds in depicting the creative precept as proven within the images as soon as once more in the way in which the photographers are characterised by way of 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 factor.
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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