6 FILMS IN WHICH PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE PROTAGONIST

25 January 2024 - ARTICLES - Comment -
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There are great films, about photography, photojournalism,..., an endless list that would take hours and paragraphs to talk about, but, since I was little, I remember some that have made me shudder on my couch in front of the television, others in great cinema screen. Since I was little, my friends told me about "Los Gritos del Silencio" as an essential film, especially Darío constantly insisted that I had to see it. From him I learned many of the secrets of photography. Other films, such as Hitchcock's "Rear Window of Alfred" with James Stewart and Grace Kelly among others, are works of art, hence the 7 Art "CINEMA"


THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY

Don't miss the quintessential scene where Walter Mitty tells Sean Pean when are you going to take the photo? and Sean Penan answers him....???????


The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, another film that for various reasons I will not forget, its actors, landscapes, plot, with the delicious moment with Sean Pean and Ben Stiller trying to photograph a snow leopard in the mountains of Afghanistan, matches my way of understanding life and photography

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THE BANG BANBG CLUB:                                                                                       Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek, Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva formed the Bang-Bang Club in the 90s. This name was used by the group of photographers who covered the violent incidents that accompanied the black liberation movement in South Africa: the fight against Apartheid.

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Brooklyn, summer 1987. Some people who frequent Auggie Wren's (Harvey Keitel) tobacco shop confide in him their problems. The bizarre story of how he got his camera and why he decided to create his unique collection of photographs will finally give a plot to Paul Benjamin (William Hurt), a prestigious novelist who is going through a crisis. For his part, Paul will help Rashid (Harold Perrineaud Jr.), a rather disoriented black teenager who is looking for his father (Whitaker).


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MINAMATA:                                                                                                  Nueva York, 1971. After his celebrated days as one of the most revered photojournalists of World War II, W. Eugene Smith feels disconnected from society and his career. Life magazine sends you to the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, whose population has been devastated by mercury poisoning, the result of decades of industrial neglect. Smith immerses himself in the community and the images of him give the disaster a heartbreaking human dimension.




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