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Contacts

All Episodes 2001
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  • 2001-12-31T23:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 28m (2 episodes)
  • 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.

34 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.

Season Premiere

2x01 Sophie Calle

Season Premiere

2x01 Sophie Calle

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Elements for mystery and investigation which are associated with a moving text. A work between testimony and fabrication.

2x02 Nan Goldin

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Stages scenes of her life and that of her kith and kin. The work is set in the heart of darkness of New York's underground life.

2x03 Duane Michals

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Master in the art of super impression, his ghostly visions blur the boundaries between reality and imagination.

2x04 Sarah Moon

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The world of fashion with its real fakes. Just a Polaroid to catch a glimpse of the fugitive.

2x05 Nobuyoshi Araki

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Stages scenes and images of his photographic diary. With emotional instinct and love of women as a leading thread in the narrative.

2x06 Andreas Gursky

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Repetitive signals of the ordinary: he builds on abstract pictures reflecting his vision of social structures.

Unfinished constructions, wastelands...: his photos are "slow instant shots" which give the best part to the viewer.

2x08 Hiroshi Sugimoto

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A journey through series: seascapes, wax dummies, cinemas... A willful research of human memory and primeval states of mind.

2x09 Lewis Baltz

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After having worked in the classic field of photography, this American artist looks into the new links that new technology has created in relation to images.

2x10 Jeff Wall

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His work, built around the principles of photographic pictures, reconciles in a critical manner with the tradition of figurative painting.

2x11 Thomas Ruff

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Paragon of apparent cold and clear-cut objectivity, he takes the lead in the young generation of European photographers.

Season Premiere

2001-12-31T23:00:00Z

3x01 John Baldessari

Season Premiere

3x01 John Baldessari

  • 2001-12-31T23:00:00Z14m

Borrowing images wholesale from magazine-pages, television screens and cinema stills, Baldessari reflects on the nature and impact of media images. The way he assembles and juxtaposes them jolts the viewer into deconstructing the visual and textual signs with which we are constantly bombarded via the media.

Bernd Becher (born August 20, 1931 in Siegen; died June 22, 2007 in Rostock) and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (born September 2, 1934 in Potsdam) were a German artist couple, best known for their photographic images of industrial buildings.

3x03 Christian Boltanski

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Around themes of identity, memory, absence and death, Boltanski has built up a body of work within the field of contemporary art, in which the formal approach cannot be dissociated from the emotion provoked.

3x04 Alain Fleischer

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Fleischer's penchant for separating strands and multiple experimentation is at the centre of his work, in which very elaborate systems bring mirrors, illusion and diverse reconstitutions into play.

3x05 John Hilliard

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John Hilliard has adopted a conceptual approach to modern photography that questions the norms of photographic language and practice. His work constantly probes the process of making images: What is light? Can the film freeze time? Is the subject what we see? Can our vision of reality do without fiction?

2001-12-31T23:00:00Z

3x06 Roni Horn

3x06 Roni Horn

  • 2001-12-31T23:00:00Z14m

Roni Horn's journey in photography is that of a highly unusual initiation. It takes its source in graphic design, explores sculpture, question writing, then returns to the essential: the subtle grammar of signs and images. Iceland is his subject of predilection, the entry point into his relationship with the world as well as the metaphor of her work: life is made of cycles in which time, nature, death, the visible and invisible call and answer each other.

3x07 Martin Parr

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Focussing on the blemishes of Western society, Martin Parr's lens takes aim at hyper-consumerism, packaged leisure and boredom in a derisive slant on our ways of life. His work deciphers social codes using a particularly subversive rule: lucidity is inseparable from humor.

3x08 Georges Rousse

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Georges Rousse is the magician, the artist, of the point of view. Deserted locations that he takes over and transforms are the strange settings for a photographic journey in which the mind discovers the power to wander and meditate in space. His work is that of a sage setting out to conquer the invisible.

3x09 Thomas Struth

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Struth strips bare the structures of our cities, lives and dreams. His photographs reveal the relationship between urban space, social group and the representation of the sub-conscious.

3x10 Wolfgang Tillmans

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Abstracts, portraits, landscapes or still lives, Wolfgang Tillmans engages every traditional photographic form in order to revolutionize approach and perception. Beyond its documentary value, his work reveals the true nature of viewpoint: an invisible line linking the artist's inner landscape to his or her subject without failing to impact on the viewer.

David Hurn - The Beatles Meeting with the British photographer David Hurn who photographed the Beatles the Swinging London of the 60s and the famous Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, in addition he tells us about his focus in capturing moments of everyday life.

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