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2 videodiscs (260 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Conceived as an introspective journey that takes you from the first daguerreotypes to war photojournalism, from fashion spreads to the greatest contemporary artists, this program includes 1700 pictures, 300 artists, and will appeal to all photographers--amateur and professional alike. This is not only the history of an amazing art form, it is also the adventure of one century and a half during which photography has captured the image of the collective...
Series
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 158 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In this collection of 24 lectures (30 min. each), Joel Sartore lectures on the basics of operating a camera, the elements of a photograph and composition and lighting, as well as analyzing real-life photo opportunities and selecting and preparing photographs for photographic essays.
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1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Travel to Colombia with photographer Robert Oelman, who leaves his psychology career behind to pursue his greatest passion - photography. Journey through the vanishing rainforests of the Amazon Basin as Oelman takes striking images of insect species never before recorded, and experience a magnificent world of beauty gone unseen by most. The images Oelman captures are astounding - colors and configurations of insects that are the stuff of dreams.
5) Pecker
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1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pecker tells the story of a goofy 18-year-old who works in a Baltimore sandwich shop and takes photos of his loving but peculiar family and friends on the side. Pecker, so named for his childhood habit of "pecking" at his food, stumbles into fame when his work is "discovered" by a savvy New York art dealer.
6) Femme fatale
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An alluring seductress is suddenly exposed to the world, including her enemies, by a voyeuristic photographer who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge.
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Director Steven Cantor examines the life and work of photographer Sally Mann in a follow-up documentary to his earlier "Blood Ties", also included on this disc.
What remains: Depicts Mann's latest work, a photo series revolving around various aspects of death and decay. As with her earlier series, this new effort features imagery taken directly from Mann's own life, mixing the traditional boundaries between art and photojournalism- amplified by the...
8) Blowup
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops a roll of film brought in by a new customer that suggests...
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate look at one of the world's most recognized sex symbols, told in her own words for the first time, impoverished southern family, to high school salutatorian, to scandalous '50s pin-up model, to shocking retirement in 1957 at the peak of her modeling career. With a stunning array of gorgeous photographs, unusual archival material, and playful movie footage.
11) Earth from space
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Earth From Space is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, this special takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustain life on earth.
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2 videodiscs (296 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brock Blennerhasset makes a living out of photographing the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Blennerhasset's reputation, a tenacious detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly. Set within the fascinating historical period of postmortem portraiture, this darkly comic series blends murder mystery with delightfully macabre humor.
13) Chasing ice
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1 videodisc (approximately 75 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
15) Tropic thunder
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
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1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, photojournalist Susan Meiselas traveled to Nicaragua to photograph the civil war between General Anastasio Somoza García's dictatorship and the Sandinista opposition. Her book, "Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979" resulted from her two years there. Mieselas returns to Nicaragua a decade later to track down the people--guerrillas, Sandinistas, and bystanders--pictured in her original photographs. The people discuss the revolution and how their...
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (8 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
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