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- StarsDavid Byrne
- DirectorCheryl DunnStarsBoogieMartha CooperBruce DavidsonEverybody Street" highlights the lives and work of New York's iconic street photographers and the unparalleled city that has inspired them for decades.
- DirectorLaura IsraelStarsRobert FrankSid KaplanJune LeafRobert Frank revolutionized photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.
- DirectorGerald FoxStarsRobert FrankJune LeafAndrea FrankA documentary on the photographer Robert Frank.
- DirectorSasha Waters FreyerStarsGeoff DyerJeffrey FraenkelSusan KismaricA documentary about an important American still photographer who captured New York City in the 1960s (his work there is said to have influenced the TV show Mad Men) and later the West in Texas and Los Angeles.
- 1985– 1h 52mTV-PG7.9 (135)TV EpisodeDirectorDyanna TaylorStarsDyanna TaylorDorothea LangeClair BrownHer photo Migrant Mother is one of the most recognized images in the world, a portrait that came to represent America's Great Depression. Few know the story, struggles and body of work of the woman who created the portrait: Dorothea Lange.
- DirectorSara FishkoStarsDavid AmramCarla BleyJohn CohenArt, obsession and anxiety permeate a dilapidated Manhattan loft building in Mid-century: The first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith's massive, fly-on-the-wall archive of photos and audio tapes documenting the likes of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Hall Overton and others at work and play in the Sixth Avenue wreck that was Smith's home and studio from 1957 through the '60s.
- DirectorSteven CantorStarsSally MannKaren BaileyRichard JantzA look at the creative process of celebrated photographer Sally Mann.
- DirectorNick HartantoSam RodenStarsNicholas SyracusePhotographer Nicholas Syracuse has explored the most remote American backroads for twenty years. Capturing profoundly mysterious images of hidden places and people living outside society, Syracuse must grapple with his own urge to break away from family and loved ones seeking the true nature of freedom.
- DirectorAdrian MabenStarsAdrian MabenCandice BergenTina BrownA camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work. It's not art and it's not good taste, he tells students. We meet June, his Australian-born wife, whom he married in 1948. Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing is different from acting. A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re-focus, resulting in more personal photographic projects.
- DirectorGero von BoehmStarsHelmut NewtonSigourney WeaverGrace JonesThe trailblazing late photographer Helmut Newton had a defining impact on the worlds of fashion and art.
- DirectorFenton BaileyRandy BarbatoStarsNancy RooneyHarry MapplethorpeGeorge StackAn examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
- DirectorAlejandro OrdonezStarsGreg GormanJames BalogRoger BallenImagraphy is a journey that documents the stories and inner workings of some of the best image capturers around the world.
- DirectorRichard PressStarsBill CunninghamAnna WintourMichael KorsA profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
- DirectorJohn MaloofCharlie SiskelStarsVivian MaierJohn MaloofDaniel ArnaudA documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.
- DirectorSandy McLeodA biography of John Szarkowski including many examples of his photos and a loose chronology of his tenure as Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsElsa DorfmanJorge Luis BorgesBob DylanA look at the life and work of photographer Elsa Dorfman.
- DirectorRichard BrightStarsAlan YentobLewis MacleodGlenda Bailey
- DirectorJack CockerReiner HolzemerStarsAlan YentobMaud Schuyler ClayWilliam Eggleston IIIDocumentary about famous American photographer William Eggleston, one of the first art photographers to use color film.
- DirectorVincent GérardCédric LatyStarsDavid ByrneAyden ClayMaud Schuyler ClayAn examination of the life and art of color photography pioneer William Eggleston.
- DirectorLaure FlammarionArnaud UyttenhoveStarsAlec Soth
- 1985– 1h 30mTV-147.5 (164)TV EpisodeDirectorHelen WhitneyStarsRichard AvedonJohn LahrMike NicholsSome of the most iconic portraits of the 20th and 21st centuries were taken by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richards portraits have filled the pages of the country's finest magazines.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
- DirectorAlfred George BaileyStarsGaladrielle AllmanAdam BlockAnton CorbijnPhotographer Jim Marshall captures the heights of the Rock and Roll music era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60's.