UK TV an evening on photography

[chris000]

For those who can access the BBC channels -Saturday 7 March on BBC 4 a number of documentarys:

8:00pm - Jacques Henri Lartigue​

8:30pm - James Ravillious (British Photographer)​

9:00pm - The Photographer, His Wife and Her Lover - O. Winston Link​

10:20pm - Robert Capa in Love and War​

11:45pm - The lost pictures of Eugene Smith​

Enjoy!

 

[Richbuckle]

Thanks for the heads up, Chris.

 

[Merkin]

any idea if these are new documentaries, or old repeats?

 

[chris000]

any idea if these are new documentaries, or old repeats?

The James Ravillious is a repeat as I have seen it before - but I'm not sure about others I'm afraid. Certainly I haven't seen them before so I shall be watching.

 

[nickdando]

They're all repeats, but I must state that they are all worth watching or recording. The James Ravillious documentary is also available on DVD from the Beaford Archive.

http://www.beaford-arts.org.uk/index.php?id=5

Nick

 

[nickdando]

I've just checked again, and the books are available from the Beaford Archive, but the DVD is being sold by:

http://www.banyak.co.uk/shop-ravilious.php

Nick

 

[OurManInTangier]

I'd watch it for the James Ravillious documentary alone.

Thanks for pointing it out; now off to SKY+ it all!

 

[Merkin]

Is the eugene smith docu one of the old, insufferably dull bbc docus, or one of the newer, enjoyable to watch docus?

 

[chris000]

Is the eugene smith docu one of the old, insufferably dull bbc docus, or one of the newer, enjoyable to watch docus?

As I've not seen it yet I don't know. It is 40 minutes long and here's what it says in the Radio Times:

"Dai Smith searches for the missing photographs taken by American W. Eugene Smith for Life magazine during the 1950 General Election"

 

[tritiated]

Does this stuff turn up on the iplayer thing? I only use it so far to listen to the radio..

 

[MickH]

The Ravilious programme is a belter. Not just for the photography, but for Alan Bennett's voice over.

 

[Paul T.]

The Ravilious story is great (I love his father's work too), I have it clogging up my hard drive, now I guess the others will too...