The Genius Of Photography - BBC4 series

mike65

This starts on Thursday at 9 pm on the posh channel.

Its 6 parts so they should make a good fist of it. Part one is 1800-1914: Fixing the Shadows: which looks at how a technical problem solved in 1839 paved the way for the camera as we know it (or is that knew it now?).

Mike.

kensutz

Damn evening shift next week, have to get the parents to record it if they're not hogging the satellite.

gandalf

Saw this advertised the other night, a must watch given the quality of BBC programmes.

Shiny

I assume someone on the internet will record this
and share it for reviewing purposes only.:)

decsramble

Damn, I'll miss the first two episodes. Still there seems to be a trend for shows shown first on BBC3 or 4 to get another showing on BBC1 or 2 a few weeks later. Hopefully that will be the case for this show.

Rojo

damn you and your posh channels!! :P fingers crossed that it gets taped..

Valentia

Isn't it a hoor the way sky+ wont let you tape "Other Channels"

JMcL

Amateur Photographer are running a series of articles in conjunction with this. It does look good. Regarding being repeated, AP says it will be on BBC2, but not until next year

nilhg

It will probably be on bittorrent Friday morning:D

leinsterman

Good spot ... thanks for passing it on ... someone will no doubt record it for (ahem) review purposes ...

I've added it to our Boards calendar also ....

leinsterman

I note from the schedule that it repeats the same night at 12:20am and 2:50am for all you night owls ...

Thirdfox

Did anyone watch tonight's episode? Never knew Kodak was the first to bring photography to the masses! (Always assumed it would be some European company...)

Daguerreotype "photos" look amazing!

sunny2004

That was an amazing program ! to the OP . well done man !

I wonder is it available somewhere on dvd ?

Masada

I dont have poshy BBC4.,:(

nilhg

It was better than I expected, and I expected it to be very good!

Carrigman

Excellent programme.

rymus

ohh ass... I forgot to get the missus to sky plus it!

mike65

On again at 00.20 am

Mike.

JMcL

Pretty excellent program all round, though it possibly skimmed over a few details (there was no mention of Niepce, Daguerre's partner who arguably invented the process, but who died a couple of years before it became widely available), but given the scope, this was forgiveable, and I'm looking forward to the rest. All in all a good night for photography on Beeb4. That was followed a documentary on Chambre Hardman, a famous Liverpool portrait photographer from the '20s-'60s. A repeat I guess as it was narrated by the late great John Peel

Alun

Yes, those Daguerrotypes looked pretty stunning, even on TV! Has anyone here actually seen one in 'real life' as it were? Or is there anywhere in Dublin where they might have one or more on display?

Roen

Hi Alun,
I remember seeing quite a few during my time studying in Dublin. For the life of me I can't remember where though. I'm so unsure that I can't even remember if they were on permanent display or an exhibition passing through.

They were pretty underwhelming to look at, although nice to see from a scientific point of view.

Alun

Roen wrote: »

They were pretty underwhelming to look at, although nice to see from a scientific point of view.

That's odd .. from looking at them on the program last night they seemed to have a certain 'depth', for want of a better word, almost a 3D-like quality to them that looked quite intriguing.

Roen

That's true alright, when you angle your head around then they do have that quality to them.
Although I'm quite sure they were larger than life on the tv screen and prime examples to boot, the ones I saw were postcard sized and pretty flea bitten. Kind of hard to be impressed

Alun

You're right, thinking back on it, most of the ones that really impressed me were actually brand new ones made by the guy who was on there demonstrating the technique. I could imagine that given the delicate nature of the surface created by this technique that they possibly wouldn't wear well and could be easily damaged.

xshayx

Think this is repeated on Monday @ 8pm

kensutz

This is uploaded to Newsgroups and downloading as we speak. Gonna get the 6 episodes and then transfer them on to dvd

Shiny

The 6 episodes are already up?
Only a matter of time before they become readily available.:)

kensutz

No just the one shown from last week

sunny2004

xshayx wrote: »

Think this is repeated on Monday @ 8pm

is this true? same channel?

xshayx

yeah, Repeat: Monday 29th October 8pm BBC Four ~ http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/

shepthedog

anywhere you can watch this online?? A youtube or similar?

Fajitas!

Ahem... No linking to anything that might break copyright

shepthedog

whoops apologies.. I'll have to wait for the dvd

Fajitas!

Unless of course, there's any legal ways around.

mike65

Wait a few months an it'll be on BBC2 or get someone to tape them for you.

Mike.

dirtydress

Crap just realised im working thursday night and then im in london on monday so i wont see either the show or the repeat!! Dammit!! Hopefully i wont miss much just from the second ep

kensutz

If there is a legal way around of me giving people a viewing of the dvd I wouldn't mind but then again I'm pretty sure the copyright will be infringed.

templeathea

Showing on BBC4 now

i_am_dogboy

Just watched it, great show. Not a huge amount of detail on any of the topics covered, but definitely enough to get you interested and researching further yourself. I'm really looking forward to the res of the series. It's been a long time since a tv show that isn't house got me this excited.

leinsterman

superb show IMO ... I have watched it twice ... I notice they had an interveiw with David Byrne from the Talking Heads ... never knew he was a photo buff ...

I recorded via Windows Media Centre ... in fact I have several recordings now ... I found out that when you set media centre to record an entire series ... it not only records the series ... it also records every single instance of repeat ... and in BBC4's case they are showing it around 5 times a week ... if not more ... still I suppose this is good given the crap service provided by NTL.

Did anyone see the show immediately after it on Thursday? ... about Liverpudlian photographer Chambre Hardiman ... this was also quite good ... introduced by John Peel ... I have this recorded also if there is any interest ...

dirtydress

I would definitely be interested if someone is able to record the one on Thursday night!!!

JMcL

leinsterman wrote: »

superb show IMO ... I have watched it twice ... I notice they had an interveiw with David Byrne from the Talking Heads ... never knew he was a photo buff ...

I noticed that, I vaguely remember reading he was into photography a few years back, but what I found curious was the fact that he was billed as "artist and photographer", no mention of musician.

magicbastarder

this is as good a place as any to post this. glaswegian pensioners recreate famous photos:

http://h8w.net/work/im.html

rahtkennades

magicbastarder wrote: »

this is as good a place as any to post this. glaswegian pensioners recreate famous photos:

http://h8w.net/work/im.html

Okay......that's just weird!!!

kensutz

Just a reminder of episode 2 on in 2 mins

sineadw

I really enjoyed that - missed last weeks. TBH I know virtually nothing about the history of photography so it was an eye opener for me. Did anyone catch the programme after too? On Lartigue.

Gotta love BBC4

Oriel

magicbastarder wrote: »

this is as good a place as any to post this. glaswegian pensioners recreate famous photos:

http://h8w.net/work/im.html

Hahahaa! That's excellent!

bradnailer

I watched for the first time last night,very intresting but they do go on with some c**p when they're talking about the particular photographers.
I saw a documentary on the photographer that took the pictures of the london underground and london streets during black out. He was a very modest and straight forward guy and when he was talking about his own shots he was of the opinion that anyone could have taken them, it was a case of being there and doing it. No art school rant!
The documentaries were Master Photographers (1983), I downloaded them.
PM me for details if you like, well worth a watch series of 6

mike65

/\ Bill Brandt, that was! /\

I enjoyed that, the 20s/30s was a particularly fecund period for all the creative arts.

Mike.

kensutz

No sign of episode 2 being uploaded on the net, I fell asleep watching it last night

mike65

Its on again Monday at 8 pm and 1:35 am (tuesday morning).

Mike.