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Season 1
TV-MA

  • Arte
  • 30m
  • France
  • Documentary
The ARTE documentary series "Contact Sheets" puts the pictures and working methods of the greatest photographers of the present under the microscope. In 33 individual portraits the whole range of artistic photography is covered.

12 episodes

Series Premiere

1x01 Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Co-founder of the Magnum Agency, he has given its pedigree to photo journalism.

1x02 William Klein

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Two priorities define his style: proximity and movement. Thanks to him, fashion has come out into the street.

1x03 Raymond Depardon

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Daring choices map out his route and have made his unique look, establishing a subjective link with the subject.

1x04 Josef Koudelka

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Gypsies, lands of exile, lonely landscapes are the stuff his art is made of. A work that takes you out of time.

1x05 Robert Doisneau

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Poet of the quotidian, he is the marveled observer of the streets of Paris. Some of his images have become legends.

1x06 Edouard Boubat

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Dilly-dallying of a solitary walker: he pins down the beauty of things and landscapes.

1x07 Elliott Erwitt

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Unexpected encounters, allusions, anecdotes, funny stories in every day life America.

1x08 Marc Riboud

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Sharp traveller, he knows how to catch the symbolic images of a world in motion.

1x09 Leonard Freed

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Far from being voyeuristic, his raw and blood-tinted images denounce social tragedies and urban violence.

1x10 Mario Giacomelli

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

1x11 Helmut Newton

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Star photographer of European and American glossy magazines renowned for his provocative images of women and fashion.

1x12 Don McCullin

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His war photographs have laid a landmark in the international press.

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