BBC1 tonight - Annie Leibovitz Photographer

DotOrg

This was on Tuesday night, so you've missed it if you didn't already see it





Imagine.... World-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, who has captured famous faces from Demi Moore and Yoko Ono to the Queen, is the subject of this intimate profile by her sister.

Rojo

Annie is amazing. Really enjoy looking through her photographs. Her disney characters collection was also pretty cool. Thanks for the heads up.

sasar

Cheers DotOrg!

Latchy

DotOrg wrote: »

11:35pm

Imagine.... World-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, who has captured famous faces from Demi Moore and Yoko Ono to the Queen, is the subject of this intimate profile by her sister.

I remember buying that rolling stone mag with naked john and yoko (above )just before he was assassinated .Wish i had kept it and i bought the recent vanity fair mag with that pic in it (above) of milly cyrus

quilmore

love her work!
but it's frigging too late, I hope it gets repeated in BBC4

ThOnda

If someone could make it PC compatible, please, that would help me a lot. It's just too late for me.

Dades

quilmore wrote: »

love her work!
but it's frigging too late, I hope it gets repeated in BBC4

ThOnda wrote: »

If someone could make it PC compatible, please, that would help me a lot. It's just too late for me.

Don't none of you people have recording devices? Set the betamax!!

Mec-a-nic

Dades wrote: »

Don't none of you people have recording devices? Set the betamax!!

I still have a Betamax! That said, the PVR is set since the RadioTimes review said you'd want to pause it every picture to admire the view....

quilmore

Dades wrote: »

Don't none of you people have recording devices? Set the betamax!!

nope
I spend my spare money in photo gear:D, don't watch much telly

Valentia

Thanks for that. She's one of my faves.

leinsterman

PVR is set up ... thanks ...

Dodgykeeper

Whats a PVR, Whatever it is i want one!

PixelTrawler

I think the time is 10:35 not 11:35...

Wait im not sure... BBC website says 10.35 and NTL box says 11.35... ive just set the recorder from 10.30 just to be safe

stabo

my ntl time went back an hour the other day. so it could be on at 10.30.. edit. its on at 11.35,just checked aertel

leinsterman

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

Whats a PVR, Whatever it is i want one!

Ever heard of a thing called "google" or "wikipedia" ?


You can get a PVR from NTL for an additional €5 per month...

Dodgykeeper

PVR (Priya Village Roadshow), a chain of cinemas in India

How the feck is that gonna help!

leinsterman

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

PVR (Priya Village Roadshow), a chain of cinemas in India

How the feck is that gonna help!

Oh sorry. Here is the link to wikipedia for you ...

Dodgykeeper

What that all about

leinsterman

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

What that all about

You mean you were serious about not being able to figure out from a search for PVR what people are talking about ? ... sorry I genuinely thought you were being a smarty pants ...

I'm confident Google or Wiki will give you the answer you are looking somewhere for on the first page of hits ... not trying to be elitest here ... just still not totally convinced your not on a wind up ...

I'd be interested to know which search engine returns Pyra Village Roadshow in a prominent position on a search for PVR without also giving a more logical answer given the topic of discussion ... it is probably one to avoid in future... unless you are living in India ...

oshead

This thread has just been added to the FTOTW (Funniest thread of the week) shortlist. :rolleyes:

Dodgykeeper

I really didnt know what a PVR was altough I have one and use it every day we simply call it Sky+, I wasnt on a wind up but was trying to be funny with The India cinema bit sorry if i misjudged my audience, how was the programme anyway?

oshead

It's still on.

Overdraft

leinsterman wrote: »

You mean you were serious about not being able to figure out from a search for PVR what people are talking about ? ... sorry I genuinely thought you were being a smarty pants ...

I'm confident Google or Wiki will give you the answer you are looking somewhere for on the first page of hits ... not trying to be elitest here ... just still not totally convinced your not on a wind up ...

I'd be interested to know which search engine returns Pyra Village Roadshow in a prominent position on a search for PVR without also giving a more logical answer given the topic of discussion ... it is probably one to avoid in future... unless you are living in India ...

:rolleyes: Good God, couldn't you just have explained what PVR means?

Dodgykeeper

oshead wrote: »

It's still on.

Yes but so is Kylie which I am both watching and PVRing!

leinsterman

Dodgykeeper wrote: »

I really didnt know what a PVR was altough I have one and use it every day we simply call it Sky+, I wasnt on a wind up but was trying to be funny with The India cinema bit sorry if i misjudged my audience, how was the programme anyway?

Well then ... my apologies ...

don't know how it was... I working on some pics ... but I have it recorded ... on my NTL PVR ...

Rojo

Really interesting how she approaches photography - she's a genius!

Dodgykeeper

Rojo wrote: »

Really interesting how she approaches photography - she's a genius!

Who Kylie?


Ok sorry I realise this has gone too far:D

oshead

Latchy

Unless it's for a publicity shoot or portrait, some celebs and people in general are very self conciencious around clicking cameras and photgraphers .She blended in so well and became invisable to the subject so they looked and acted Naturally, as they would if she wasnt really there .

In my humble opinion of course

MartMax

i thought so... it's like "Almost Famous"...

thebaz

Rojo wrote: »

Really interesting how she approaches photography - she's a genius!

agreed , i'm no fan of the expensive glitzy fashion world , but her early 70's Stones stuff are some of the best images i know , certainly in music -- brilliant -- and another Cartier Bresson disciple -- God we have a long way to go

snickerpuss

I really enjoyed that, programs like that usually depress me since I'll never take anything like that but then I don't have a whole team, just lil ol me and the canon.

Love the rolling stones shots in particular.

thedarkroom

I don't suppose anyone managed to record this, preferably to DVD. I didn't find out it was on until it was too late and I don't have satellite tv at home so BBC4 is out.
Love her work, raging I missed it.

David

Anouilh

The documentary was very well made and offered an understanding of how the photgraphy industry works.

The intellectualizing was a bit heavy handed for my taste, however.
The question of whether it is possible to "capture" a person in a photographic image, while part of the literature of photographic analysis seems to lead to many sterile avenues.
What shone through was that if you like people you will take good photos.

The images of Kisten Dunst wearing a billowing dress and the classical cothurnus of the courtly actor were beautiful.

Hugh_C

Quite enjoyed it - although I thought the ending was very abrupt and seemed to be getting the impression that she's getting more outrageous in her demands for creating a tableau, the stuff with the marching bands and stickwoman Kiera Knightley. Liked the Kirsten Dunst frock though.

I've got to agree with earlier contributors that the stuff from the 70s/80s was great and pretty much set the mark for rock&roll photography.

I would like if the doc had had a more technical slant, but as a program maker myself, it'd be too anoraky for general consumption.

Hugh

Hugh_C

thedarkroom wrote: »

I don't suppose anyone managed to record this, preferably to DVD

David

Yep. Where are you? PM me. I'll see if I can copy it ...

Hugh

Anouilh

thebaz wrote: »

agreed , i'm no fan of the expensive glitzy fashion world , but her early 70's Stones stuff are some of the best images i know , certainly in music -- brilliant -- and another Cartier Bresson disciple -- God we have a long way to go

I think the quality found in Irish photography is equal to anything found elsewhere in the World. Until the advent of the Internet, it was assumed that you could only make your name by living in London or New York. The remark made by Annie Leibovitz that all her "real" work is inside the magazine, not on the covers (which are designed to sell the product) was one of the most important things she said, I think, and and one you will probably agree with.

I tend to find "gritty realism" a bit overwhelming.

quilmore

very good program, I've managed to get awake until that time
that's the kind of photography I'd like to do more than mostly everything else

I really liked the pre-vision she has for the set up of every picture and how she knows what it takes to materialized it

paudie

Brilliant program but it inspired and depressed me in equal amounts.
Haven't been shooting much recently and it made me feel like my stuff is just worthless.
But straight after I had my girlfriend trying different poses and I've been planning shots all morning

Anouilh

thedarkroom wrote: »

Love her work, raging I missed it.

All is not lost as there is so much information on the Internet.
http://www.corcoran.org/leibovitz/index.htm

Anouilh

There was one aspect of Leibovitz's work that set me thinking.
I retain a sense that people should look their best in a photo.
This goes back to the fact that in the 'fifties a visit to a professional photographer's studio was quite commonplace and photos were in many ways special and to be treasured because they were less numerous than today.
Annie Leibovitz's exposure to the medium was very different. Living out of a car with a mother whose film reels of the family showed their lives in so many different situations made her puzzle about why one would dress up for a photograph, which caused quite a lot of hilarity in the way she approaches photo shoots.

I very much liked the way she described that looking at the World through a car window was the equivalent of seeing it through a ready made frame. I find the experience of photographing from a car frustrating and constantly open the window to dispense the feeling of being hemmed in visually that the window frame creates.

These are the sort of documentary films that make everybody understand what they are trying to do when they take photos every day.

kensutz

Missed it due to being on evenings, must scour the net to see if I can "acquire" it.

thebaz

Anouilh wrote: »

I think the quality found in Irish photography is equal to anything found elsewhere in the World. Until the advent of the Internet, it was assumed that you could only make your name by living in London or New York. .

i think there has been a few great Irish Photographers , Doyle , Bourke , Fr Browne , but they are sadly dead -- i'm pushed to think of any living Irish photographer that would be right up there with her

paudie

Apparently there is a guy who is pretty big in the fashion world, can't remember his name right now, but I remember that a lot of my friends got very excited when he came back to Limerick to give a talk in the art college.

Anouilh

thebaz wrote: »

i think there has been a few great Irish Photographers , Doyle , Bourke , Fr Browne , but they are sadly dead -- i'm pushed to think of any living Irish photographer that would be right up there with her

Bill Doyle is very much alive and was interviewed on TV in advance of his retrospective exhibition just after Christmas this year.

I like Chris Hill's work.

The whole question of "greatness" is incredibly worrying.
The creation of canons of great practitioners in every medium, particularly lliterature, is so stifling to so many people that I simply ignore it.
It has been responsible for the alienation of so many artists who are rediscovered years after their death and who had to survive volumes of negative criticism during their lifetimes.
I think particularly of Bach, whose early work had to be scrutinized every week by farmers wives who found it intolerable as they sat through it in church. He was only resurrected for public acclaim in the nineteenth century.

http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2008/texts/BillDoyle.shtml

Anouilh

paudie wrote: »

Haven't been shooting much recently and it made me feel like my stuff is just worthless.

I couldn't care less what anybody thinks about my photography.
This is based on years of living in a culture which, as Goethe once remarked about the Irish and the extraordinary hyperbole of their personal remarks... is like seeing a great stag brought low.

DotOrg

i recorded this on my sky+ so if i can get my dvd recorder to work i'll burn a few copies off

melekalikimaka

DotOrg wrote: »

i recorded this on my sky+ so if i can get my dvd recorder to work i'll burn a few copies off

i wouldnt mind one if ya making afew dot org

trishw78

Saw this last night I was flicking through looking for something to watch when I discovered it. Have to say I love her work also. Last nights show definately gave a great insight into how her mind works. Now i want to get out there and just start shooting.

Jim Fitzpatrick is also a photographer he took the shot of Che Guvara which he turned into that red and black graphic,

http://www.jimfitzpatrick.ie/gallery/photo.html

Latchy

Watched the programme to .Intresting how she spent a lot of her childhood viewing the world from back seat of a car .

Also some black photos say much more than colour .

thedarkroom

Anouilh wrote: »

All is not lost as there is so much information on the Internet.
http://www.corcoran.org/leibovitz/index.htm

Cheers Anouilh, followed that and it looks interesting,

David