What a remarkable program. This is a new program, I believe, not from any older documentary.
I will budget to purchase the DVD...
What a remarkable program. This is a new program, I believe, not from any older documentary.
I will budget to purchase the DVD...
Amazing documentary, she was a hell of a photographer and human, pretty much an ass#€[% of a mom but her kids ended up loving her after they went through some life of their own. I experienced the same dynamic with my mom.
Bob
There's mosquitoes on the river, fish are rising up like birds. It's been hot for seven weeks now, too hot to even speak now, did you hear what I just heard?
My Dorothea Lange story:
I was at work at the Camera Center store in Modesto, a man came in with original prints of the migrant mother series, asking if I'd copy them...
He explained that he was the infant in the picture, and his mother had just died, now they needed copies for the other family members.
I explained copyright, did some research, & found they are public domain, so I shot copy negs, hand printed them on Ilford warm tone paper.
Further research finds his migrant mother is buried in Lakewood Cemetery, near here.
Did not like the documentary as a 'film'
however, I liked many of 'areas' it "explored" and found the subject of great interest
I just couldn't get over how..sick as she was..frail as she was.. she kept knocking out JUST GREAT photographs until the end
an amazing photographer
Interesting that she did not think of herself as an artist until the "around the world trip." I felt really sad that she did not live to see the opening at MOMA. It was a great insight into her life.
David
I was really moved by this. I am quite familiar with her work. Still, what an exquisite photographer, someone who could really "see". I fear it will become a lost art. I sincerely hope I am wrong.
Lenny
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She died of esophageal cancer (a very, very bad way to go). Does anyone know if she smoked?
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
She smoked, and it was a re-run. I first saw it a few years ago. But at least they re-broadcast it at an early time in the evening, over the weekend. Pretty riveting.
Maybe I admire photography like that so much because it's not the kind of work I seem capable of doing at all. But the film itself was superbly put together. The house looked familiar - probably one of those places over the years some repair contractor called me to check out on some technical question. I tend to remember things like the deck and the shapes of specific live oak trees. Her eccentricities were well known, but maybe that's what drove her to such a level of visual dedication.
Did anyone notice that before the Leica she had switched to a Pentax?
Thomas
North Berkeley/Euclid Ave., just north of Codornices Park.Originally Posted by Drew Wiley
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