Contacts

Contacts

1989 3 Seasons 33 Episodes ⭐ 0.0

Based on an idea by William Klein, CONTACTS is a series of 33 essential films to discover the artistic itinerary of the most important contemporary photographers in the world from an original perspective: through the images selected and commented on by the author himself (sheets of contact, proofs or slides), we enter the secret universe of creative work, at the very heart of the process of making a photographic work.

Based on an idea by William Klein, CONTACTS is a series of 33 essential films to discover the artistic itinerary of the most important contemporary photographers in the world from an original perspective: through the images selected and commented on by the author himself (sheets of contact, proofs or slides), we enter the secret universe of creative work, at the very heart of the process of making a photographic work.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cartier-Bresson's talent obliterated the boundary between art and documentary photography. He was one of the founders of

EP 2

William Klein

William Klein has always refused to obey the rules. His consistently experimental work as a painter, film-maker, graphic

EP 3

Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon rocked the foundations of documentary photography and photo-journalism by turning the photograph into a

EP 4

Josef Koudelka

Famous chiefly for his photo-reportages of the events in Prague in 1968 and his pictures of the gypsies he lives with, K

EP 5

Robert Doisneau

From the late 1930s onwards, the streets of Paris and its suburbs were Doisneau's favourite subject. His images of the L

EP 6

Édouard Boubat

A tireless traveller since the Fifties, quietly humorous and always on the look-out for precious moments, Édouard Bouba

EP 7

Elliott Erwitt

Magnum reporter Elliott Erwitt is a photographer with a sense of humour. He captures coincidences in a way that is total

EP 8

Marc Riboud

International newspaper photographer Marc Riboud has travelled the world and amassed forty years' worth of photographs,

EP 9

Leonard Freed

As Leonard Freed sees it, being a professional photographer should be either fun or profitable - or an alternative to ps

EP 10

Mario Giacomelli

Born in Italy in 1925. Taking pictures of hospices, earth-bound life and landscape in order to challenge time.

EP 11

Helmut Newton

Born in Germany in 1920. Star photographer of European and American glossy magazines renouned for his provocative image

EP 12

Don McCullin

Born in Great Britain in 1935. His war photographs have laid a landmark in the international press.

EP 1

Sophie Calle

Sophie Calle is a visual artist, photographer, writer and director. His job is to make his life, especially the most int

EP 2

Nan Goldin

For the first time in thirteen minutes of a monologue of raw truth, Nan Goldin tells herself in “Contacts” what bind

EP 3

Duane Michals

EP 4

Sarah Moon

A fashion and advertising photographer since 1968, she very quickly won praise and prizes in Paris, London, New York and

EP 5

Nobuyoshi Araki

The city, the women, the sky and the flowers seen by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

EP 6

Hiroshi Sugimoto

After studying economics at Rikkyo Saint-Paul's University in Tokyo, Sugimoto left Japan in 1970 to study photography at

EP 7

Andreas Gursky

The exhibition "Photography in Düsseldorf" traces the history of German photographic objectivity from the 1970s to the

EP 8

Thomas Ruff

One of the leaders of a new German generation. Ruff uses the photographic medium in a documentary and objective way, in

EP 9

Jeff Wall

A resolutely modern photographic art.

EP 10

Lewis Baltz

Focus on industrial society and its evolution since the end of the 1960s.

EP 11

Jean-Marc Bustamante

The first photos of the artist date from 1974. He treats his prints like paintings.

EP 1

Alain Fleischer

Alain Fleischer expresses his taste for duplication and multiple experiments in his photographic work with very elaborat

EP 2

Christian Boltanski

"What will be the image that will remain?" is the leitmotif of Christian Boltanski's photographic work.

EP 3

Hilla Et Bernd Becher

A journey through post-war industrial landscapes and new objective photography.

EP 4

John Baldessari

A student at San Diego State College from 1949 to 1957, John Baldessari produced paintings attempting to establish a rel

EP 5

Georges Rousse

Georges Rousse or a different investigation of space, tracing hieroglyphic writing on the walls and floors.

EP 6

Martin Parr

Born in Great Britain in 1952. Focusing on the blemishes of Western society, Martin Parr's lens takes aim at hyper-consu

EP 7

Roni Horn

Born in the United States in 1955. Roni Horn's journey in photography is that of a highly unusual initiation. It takes i

EP 8

Thomas Struth

Born in Germany in 1954. Struth strips bare the structures of our cities, lives and dreams. His photographs reveal the r

EP 9

Wolfgang Tillmans

Born in Germany in 1968. Abstracts, portraits, landscapes or still lives, Wolfgang Tillmans engages every traditional ph

EP 10

John Hilliard

Born in Great Britain in 1945. John Hilliard has adopted a conceptual approach to modern photography that questions the

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