photography themed movies

I liked "The Public Eye" especially the mob hit scene in the restaurant were Pesce uses some interesting cameras to get the action.

Also there is a movie I saw recently on Turner movie Classics staring Fred Astair & I believe Ginger Rogers (Not sure). It takes place during WWII and he is a pilot on leave. She is a photographer and seems to be using a very nice Contax Rangefinder. I don't recall the name of the flick however.
 
Another one I saw, and can't remember the title of, was about some turn-of-the-century photographer attempting to photograph fairies, and ends up being charged with the death of a reverends wife... iirc.
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Reminds me of another British film called "Fairy Tale: A true Story", based on the true story of two teenage girls in England in 1917 who faked photographs of fairies in their garden. Known as the Cottingley hoax, the photographs were endorsed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as authentic. Though it wasn't until some sixty years later the girls admitted it was a prank that had had got out of hand.
 
Was Pretty Baby any god? Somehow I never saw that even though I'm a Susan Sarandon fan. Keith Carradine as EJ Bellocq, plus a very young Brooke Shields.
Louis Malle directed. It's in my Netflix list.
 
Steve, CVBR3M, and others have mentioned 'Blow Up' which from the title you will deduce that this is more than a pretty girl with a camera. The mystery is solved by a photographer working with his camera and in his darkroom. It's a good mystery.
 
Puisin said:
Reminds me of another British film called "Fairy Tale: A true Story", based on the true story of two teenage girls in England in 1917 who faked photographs of fairies in their garden. Known as the Cottingley hoax, the photographs were endorsed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as authentic. Though it wasn't until some sixty years later the girls admitted it was a prank that had had got out of hand.
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Apparently, those two films came out simultaneously, with "Fairy Tale" being more popular... probably due to "Photographing Fairies" having a more adult feel to it.
 
Puisin said:
Reminds me of another British film called "Fairy Tale: A true Story", based on the true story of two teenage girls in England in 1917 who faked photographs of fairies in their garden. Known as the Cottingley hoax, the photographs were endorsed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as authentic. Though it wasn't until some sixty years later the girls admitted it was a prank that had had got out of hand.
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A great old darkroom in this one- scenes of running films & printing even.

I remember some old Columbo episodes with scenes in the police darkroom don't I?
 
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