Contacts

Contacts, Vol. 3: Conceptual Photography

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The greatest photographers in the world reveal the secrets behind their images in this collection of short, personal films. Using images (contact prints, proofs, prints, or slides) with commentary by the artists, the program utilizes an original perspective to uncover the artistic processes of the greatest contemporary photographers. Volume Three features Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Roni Horn, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and other contemporary masters.

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11 Episodi

John Baldessari
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John BaldessariBorrowing images wholesale from magazine-pages, television screens and cinema stills, Baldessari reflects on the nature and impact of media images. The way he assembles and juxtaposes them jolts the viewer into deconstructing the visual and textual signs with which we are constantly bombarded via the media.
Bernd & Hilla Becher
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Bernd & Hilla BecherBernd Becher (born August 20, 1931 in Siegen; died June 22, 2007 in Rostock) and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (born September 2, 1934 in Potsdam) were a German artist couple, best known for their photographic images of industrial buildings.
Christian Boltanski
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Christian BoltanskiAround themes of identity, memory, absence and death, Boltanski has built up a body of work within the field of contemporary art, in which the formal approach cannot be dissociated from the emotion provoked.
Alain Fleischer
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Alain FleischerFleischer's penchant for separating strands and multiple experimentation is at the centre of his work, in which very elaborate systems bring mirrors, illusion and diverse reconstitutions into play.
John Hilliard
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John HilliardJohn Hilliard has adopted a conceptual approach to modern photography that questions the norms of photographic language and practice. His work constantly probes the process of making images: What is light? Can the film freeze time? Is the subject what we see? Can our vision of reality do without fiction?
Roni Horn
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Roni HornRoni Horn's journey in photography is that of a highly unusual initiation. It takes its source in graphic design, explores sculpture, question writing, then returns to the essential: the subtle grammar of signs and images. Iceland is his subject of predilection, the entry point into his relationship with the world as well as the metaphor of her work: life is made of cycles in which time, nature, death, the visible and invisible call and answer each other.
Martin Parr
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Martin ParrFocussing on the blemishes of Western society, Martin Parr's lens takes aim at hyper-consumerism, packaged leisure and boredom in a derisive slant on our ways of life. His work deciphers social codes using a particularly subversive rule: lucidity is inseparable from humor.
Georges Rousse
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Georges RousseGeorges Rousse is the magician, the artist, of the point of view. Deserted locations that he takes over and transforms are the strange settings for a photographic journey in which the mind discovers the power to wander and meditate in space. His work is that of a sage setting out to conquer the invisible.
Thomas Struth
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Thomas StruthStruth strips bare the structures of our cities, lives and dreams. His photographs reveal the relationship between urban space, social group and the representation of the sub-conscious.
Wolfgang Tillmans
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Wolfgang TillmansAbstracts, portraits, landscapes or still lives, Wolfgang Tillmans engages every traditional photographic form in order to revolutionize approach and perception. Beyond its documentary value, his work reveals the true nature of viewpoint: an invisible line linking the artist's inner landscape to his or her subject without failing to impact on the viewer.
David Hurn - The Beatles
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David Hurn - The BeatlesDavid Hurn - The Beatles Meeting with the British photographer David Hurn who photographed the Beatles the Swinging London of the 60s and the famous Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, in addition he tells us about his focus in capturing moments of everyday life.