Photography Related TV Schedule

oshead · 19-11-2007 10:28pm #1

Schedule for the next two weeks!

Dave OS

The Genius of Photography
"Paper Movies"
Documentary series exploring the history of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, from portraits to photo-journalism, from art to advertising. The three decades from the late 1950s onwards were the golden age of photographic journeys, from the road movies of Robert Frank to the grainy street dramas of William Klein, and marks the moment when colour photography became a serious medium for the artistically-ambitious photographer. Includes interviews with Klein, Robert Adams, Joel Sternfeld.
Tue 20 Nov 01:50 - 02:50 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four

Artland
Charlie Luxton and Mame McCutcheon tour the USA in search of art treasures. On the way from Minneapolis to Chicago the intrepid art lovers stop to admire a modernist chapel and meet Michael Eastman, who photograph's America's vanished buildings.
Tue 20 Nov 13:00 - 14:00 267 Sky Arts
Wed 21 Nov 20:00 - 21:00 267 Sky Arts
Sat 24 Nov 01:00 - 02:00 267 Sky Arts
Sat 24 Nov 18:30 - 19:30 267 Sky Arts

Galilee : Photos photographes
"Tom Drahos"
Documentary series looking at the work of contemporary French photographers.
Tue 20 Nov 19:10 - 19:30 799 TV5 - TV5 Monde
Thu 22 Nov 13:00 - 13:30 521 Disc Channel +1 - Discovery Channel +1

Single Mums SOS with Kate and Emily
Straight-talking duo Kate and Emily help single mothers look to the future positively by encouraging them to build healthy relationships with their ex-partners and strong support networks for themselves. Kate and Emily attempt to install some confidence in single parent and budding photographer Siobhan, to provide the help needed to exhibit her work.
Wed 21 Nov 10:30 - 11:00 264 Disc Home and He - Discovery Home and Health

The Tsar's Last Picture Show
Historian Orlando Figes presents the extraordinary story of the relationship between photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Produkin-Gorskii and the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. A pioneer in colour photography, Gorskii's pictures offer a unique record of a culture swept away by the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
Thu 22 Nov 02:30 - 03:30 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four

How It's Made
"Photographs, Welding Electrodes, Electric Violins"
Documentary revealing how everyday items like photographs, welding electrodes and electric violins are manufactured.
Thu 22 Nov 12:00 - 12:30 520 Discovery Channe - Discovery Channel

The Twenties in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
"Far East: Expeditions to Empires"
Series examining Albert Kahn's 'Archives of the Planet' project, in which he sent photographers around the world to document major events. Between 1914 and 1928, Kahn sent some of his most talented photographers to the Far East. In Cambodia, Vietnam and Japan, they produced a compelling photographic record of economic and cultural life, subsistence industries, and ceremonial practices, and produced a fascinating portrait of the life of a wealthy Maharajah in India during the British Raj.
Thu 22 Nov 20:00 - 21:00 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four
Fri 23 Nov 01:20 - 02:20 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four

The Genius of Photography
"We are Family"
Documentary series exploring the history of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, from portraits to photo-journalism, from art to advertising. This part looks at what happens when the medium translates personal relationships into photographic ones; when strangers, celebrities, lovers and children get fed to the camera. It's also about what happens when photographers turn their cameras on themselves - what they choose to reveal and what they try to conceal.
Thu 22 Nov 21:00 - 22:00 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four
Fri 23 Nov 00:20 - 01:20 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four
Fri 23 Nov 02:50 - 03:50 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four
Wed 28 Nov 23:00 - 00:00 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four

Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
Series exploring an archive of fin-de-siecle colour photographs.
Fri 23 Nov 19:30 - 20:00 142 BBC TWO - BBC2 Northern Ireland

National Trust's Climate Change Exhibition
A look at a photography exhibition that examines what climate change will mean for life in the UK with the use of photographs taken at National Trust properties.
Tue 27 Nov 20:50 - 21:00 267 Sky Arts

The Twenties in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
"The End of a World"
Series examining Albert Kahn's 'Archives of the Planet' project, in which he sent photographers around the world to document major events. Features the films shot by Lucien Le Saint with the French fishing fleets in the waters of Newfoundland; the film and colour autochromes shot by Frederic Gadmer during his visit to record voodoo religious practices in Benin; and the experimental colour films produced by Camille Sauvageot in 1928 depicting the lives of French farmers, gypsies and bullfighters.
Thu 29 Nov 20:00 - 21:00 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four
Fri 30 Nov 01:20 - 02:20 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four

Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
"Northern Exposure"
Documentary series. In 1908, French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn created an 'archive of the planet'. He gave his photographers the world’s first user-friendly colour cameras to document all aspects of life on earth. This series uses the extraordinary film and 72,000 photographs they shot in more than 50 countries to give viewers insight into the early years of the 20th Century. This episode documents the pictures taken in Europe before the First World War.
Fri 30 Nov 19:30 - 20:00 142 BBC TWO - BBC2 Northern Ireland

Edwardians in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
"An Asian Odyssey"
Documentary series exploring an archive of fin-de-siecle colour photographs. During an epic expedition through Asia, the intrepid Stephane Passet filmed and photographed many remarkable images of life in India and Pakistan, and captured some of the earliest known colour pictures of Mongolia.
Fri 30 Nov 19:30 - 20:00 142 BBC TWO - BBC2 Northern Ireland

The Genius of Photography
"Snap Judgements"
Documentary series exploring the history of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, from portraits to photo-journalism, from art to advertising. This final part looks at the current state of the art - from a $3m Edward Steichen print to the estimated 29 billion photographs taken in 2006 by phone cameras alone. It looks at the impact of the digital post-production techniques that make anything possible, and the rediscovery of techniques which are taking photography back to the 19th century.
Thu 29 Nov 21:00 - 22:00 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four
Fri 30 Nov 00:20 - 01:20 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four
Fri 30 Nov 02:50 - 03:50 116 BBC FOUR - BBC Four

The Secret Files of Gilbert and George
An interview with Britart legends Gilbert and George from 2000 in which they discuss their approach to art, which has developed from performance art to large scale photo-montage.
Sun 2 Dec 01:20 - 02:00 267 Sky Arts