Annie Leibovitz - Life Through a Lens

[Gid]

Don't know if the link below will work. An hour long programme in the BBC's Imagine series available of the BBC's iplayer. If the link doesn't work then try www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and then serach for imagine. A very interesting programme and a fair bit of Leica RF.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/i...earch&go=Find+Programmes&version_pid=b00c3qmr

 

[FrankS]

Only available in the UK. Pity.

 

[dcsang]

Didn't PBS' "American Masters" do a show on her?
That one wasn't half bad - I wonder if this is a similar look at Ms Leibovitz.

If there's one thing you can garner from her - regardless of how many assistants she uses and lights and such - is the posing that goes on in her portraits. Really cool stuff that and great inspiration for guys like me that can't pose people for $hite 😀

Dave

 

[Gid]

Only available in the UK. Pity.

Really? I thought anyone could get to any internet site 🙁

Sorry guys.

 

[hugivza]

If you fly Singapore Airlines it's available - I watched it last week.

 

[iridium7777]

Only available in the UK. Pity.

for those that this is an issue:

look for a uk proxy server and connect through that, then load the link and it should work.

 

[eia41]

A very interesting documentary on the photographer and her persona, mostly covering her long term photographic relationship with John Lennon / Yoko Ono and the Rolling Stones.

Yes, she is a master of portraiture and she is quite assertive in the positioning / posing of her subject(s). She was using a variety of camera makes and formats.

By the way, there was a recent thread on how easily and/or fast one could load film on to a Leica M6. Well, she loaded one "in the blink of an eye" while talking to her interviewer and hardly looking at the camera as she was doing it!!!

 

[Warren T.]

i happened to see the PBS American Masters documentary, and there was a very cool segment where she was photographing Mikhail Baryshnikov in a dance studio using a Leica M with motor drive. It was very interesting and informative to watch how she worked with her subjects.

--Warren