Photographers
The third strand of Filmatique’s The Creation of Meaning series examines the art of photography.
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Bill Cunningham New York
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Richard Press • 2010 • USA • A portrait the secluded pioneer of street fashion.
Perched on his Schwinn bicycle, a camera hanging from his neck, photographer Bill Cunningham roams the streets of New York snapping stills of unassuming passerby, if the look is right. Despite decades...
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Helmut Newton - The Bad and the Beautiful
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Gero von Boehm • Germany • 2020 • The life and legacy of a controversial photography genius.
One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Newton lived as a teenager under the Nazis b...
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Love, Cecil
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Lisa Immordino Vreeland • United States • 2017 • A stirring portrait of queer icon Cecil Beaton.
Cecil Beaton was an incandescent talent. Born to a well-to-do British family, Beaton charmed his way into the upper echelons of the elite, learning to photograph on his nanny’s camera...