The Genius Of Photography

[giridharkhasnis@gmail.com]

hi! australia tv has announced The Genius Of Photography series on
Sun 8.30pm, ABC . i want to watch this programme, but am not aware whether it is available for indian viewers. can anyone help with info?

[Ross Chambers]

Hi

I'm not sure how helpful this is -- I'm assuming that you are located in India (best of luck in the one day matches!).

I don't know the routine for receiving ABC TV in Asia, I'll ask my daughter who lived in Thailand for a long time and watched ABC there.

As you see the programme is on local ABC TV at 3 pm, and ABC 2, which is the digital network, at the same time (Eastern Standard Time, Australia)

I'll be watching, I'd like to think that my suggestion to them to show it paid off, but it was probably other factors!

Regards - Ross

See:

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/...008T150000.htm

[anchored]

IF by chance you have satellite TV, and IF by chance you have the Ovation Channel available... this series was shown on it perhaps a month ago... I would assume they'll be doing reruns fairly frequently (as many cable/satellite channels are prone to do). Might be an option to watch for. Ovation Channel, by the way, has a fairly high amount of TV shows produced in Australia.

Glenn

[Ross Chambers]

Hi

Update: my son-in-law, who works in media and has watched ABC TV international in Thailand confirms my suspicions that ABC would buy rights for only Australia. He saw little material that was originated by the BBC. He suggests that BBC is worth a search, their enterprises business is failrly active, too. They may have a DVD.

Regards - Ross

[giridharkhasnis@gmail.com]

thanks ross, u are right i am here in bangalore. and thanks for the best wishes for one dayers; i heartily reciprocate.
australia network is quite popular in india, atleast in bangalore and we have had a chance to see some very good programmes on art (out of bbc series, imagination). for instance, i came to know that they are showing a docu on klimt and was able to do a curtain raiser so that others also could see. (incidentally, i write on art, literature and world cinema for local newspapers). the problem is they do seem to not have an independent network in india which can be accessed on the net. i would love to do a curtain raiser for the photography series, which i think i have seen on the bbc some years ago.
anyway, thanks for your time and if u care to read my article i would be delighted.
giridhar


-------

Date:02/10/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/...0250450300.htm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Back Metro Plus Bangalore Chennai Hyderabad






Art of kissing





Don’t miss The Kiss on Australia Network this evening






Painted one hundred years ago (1907-08), “The Kiss” ( Der Kuss), showing a couple in tight and passionate embrace, is one of the iconic images of 20th century art. In posters and postcards, it is the best-selling image of Gustav Klimt, wh o came to be known as a master of eroticism.

Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) who was born in poverty as the second of seven children to an impoverished gold engraver near Vienna, Austria, studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and later got trained as an architectural designer. Before he had reached his twenties, he with his brother was executing murals in large buildings. In 1897, he became one of the founding members of the Austrian art nouveau movement, Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession). The artists of the movement sought to address contemporary human concerns and emotions in a highly decorative style. Klimt stayed with the Secession for a decade and withdrew only when he felt that the movement started showing an affinity towards naturalism.

Klimt’s gaze as a painter was primarily focussed on the female body. His paintings were intense, sensual, and strikingly two-dimensional, decorated by elegant forms and vivid colours. Far from being acknowledged for their forceful depiction of human form and emotions, they were branded as perverse and “pornographic” and targeted for virulent attack by critics. Some of his paintings were even displayed behind a screen ostensibly to avoid corrupting the sensibilities of the young.

“Klimt’s oeuvre bristles with symbols of the human revolt against the tyranny of materialism and its self-righteous claims on truth and ideals,” explain art historians Angelika Muthesius and Gilles Neret in their book, “Erotic Art”. “Throughout his artistic career, Klimt was embroiled in battles with censors... Klimt resolved his artistic problem by transforming anatomy into ornament, and ornament into anatomy. His seductive decorations force sexuality in its overt immediacy to disappear. Though the subject matter of “The Kiss” is unfit for its setting and era, Klimt’s duplicitous ornamental guile so successfully cloys his thematic handling that not only is he able to elude the cudgelling of prickly royal censors, but is also able to secure an audience throughout the fussily conservative echelons of Viennese society. The crowing irony: ‘The Kiss’ was eventually purchased by the Austrian government.”

While his art seemed to push the liberalism to its limit, Klimt’s personal life and voracious sexual appetite too were as exciting. He never married, but had many lovers. So much so that by the time of his death he is said to have had about thirty illegitimate children!

A BBC television program analyzing the “The Kiss” (running time: 50 minutes) would be aired today (Tuesday, October 2, 2007 ) at 6 p.m. / 10 p.m. on the Australia Network as part of the series, “The Private Life of a Masterpiece”. (Repeat telecast on Wednesday, October 3, at 1 p.m.). Don’t miss it.






GIRIDHAR KHASNIS



© Copyright 2000 - 2008 The Hindu

[giridharkhasnis@gmail.com]

hi ross/glen:
just found out that they arent showing the photoseries afterall in india. sad but atleast i have found a couple of new friends in you.
thanks both of you very much.
giridhar

[Daniel_Buck]

I heard the "Genius of Photography" wasn't worth checking out, as they mainly focus on 'street photography', and don't really hit to much on other types of photography. Can anyone confirm this?

[tim atherton]

I heard the "Genius of Photography" wasn't worth checking out, as they mainly focus on 'street photography', and don't really hit to much on other types of photography. Can anyone confirm this?

not really correct at all

[caleb]

I caught quite a bit of the series yesterday. Ovation was running a marathon of the episodes. It was pretty good really, it is really slanted to "fine art" photography and would probably drive some of the forum members here crazy but I dug it. For god's sake they even take William Eggelston seriously, (read as humor) I went to art school, studied with Richard Benson and Tod Papageorge in grad school so I kind of have a different take on photography and art and how they overlap and interact. The show has merit and was done very well. There was plenty of coverage of artists using LF cameras.

[adrian tyler]

the book is well worth checking, it is i think, a very unbiased crit of the "history of photography" and how the image has changed and affected contemporary society. cuts right to the chase.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genius-Photo...2154101&sr=1-1


ps. i am the owner of amazon (joke)