Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable, Streaming Free on PBS until 2/1/2021

[logan2z]

The full film is being streamed for free on PBS until 2/1:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanma...ll-things-are-photographable-full-film/11339/

Enjoy!

 

[BradS]

Excellent!
Thank you.

 

[CMoore]

Good Movie, Sad story.
I suppose you cant have everything.

 

[logan2z]

I just noticed that it can also be watched using the PBS app on a Roku. Better than huddling around an ipad or laptop.

 

[MattKing]

Not available in Canada, although I understand the PBS App may recently have been made available here.
It was great in the theatre, particularly with the writer and director available to answer questions afterward .

 

[CMoore]

Not available in Canada, although I understand the PBS App may recently have been made available here.
It was great in the theatre, particularly with the writer and director available to answer questions afterward .

wow....... really.?
Did they do that "A Lot"...... or did you guys get lucky.?

 

[MattKing]

wow....... really.?
Did they do that "A Lot"...... or did you guys get lucky.?

The film was featured as an adjunct presentation to the Vancouver International Film Festival. The organization that runs that festival normally brings in films throughout the year and tries to offer these sorts of things as regularly as they can. There are a lot of such sessions during the festival itself.
Due to COVID-19, none of that is happening currently.
The festival is shown at the modern cinema that is run throughout the year by the organization, plus man other screens around the area.
The festival theatre still has a 35mm projector - it may be the last one in the area.

 

[CMoore]

My God...... and Good Heavens..... you Canadians certainly lead a privileged life up there.

that is awesome..!! .... a lady Made/ Directed that.?
I remember hitting her Wiki page.....rather talented.
Did she say how she was able to connect with his Friends/Family.?
thank you

 

[MattKing]

Doing that sort of thing is basically what she does. She is an academic as well as a film maker, and much of her research work is based on interviews.
If the version currently streaming is the same one PBS broadcasted, it is a slightly edited one. The interview with Gerry Winogrand's wife was probably a bit too revealing for PBS' taste.
She did say that about 1/3 of the Winogrand photos shown in the documentary had not been published or broadcasted before.

 

[CMoore]

Doing that sort of thing is basically what she does. She is an academic as well as a film maker, and much of her research work is based on interviews.

Right..... stupid question.
Its not like she is just an amateur photographer that decided to make a movie about Winogrand.

Somebody on APUG Pre-Mentioned this movie.....so i Pre-Ordered it from Amazon.
He is a big name in photography, but he is not a "Big Name" to most of the world.
If i am good at any type of photography, it is "Street Photography".
I wanted to own a physical copy. Movies like this can disappear so easily.
Over the years, i have contacted The BBC about buying a DVD of something, of theirs, that i have seen on Youtube.
Something out of print, that somebody puts a lousy copy of on the Internet.
They never have anything i want for sale, and when you contact them you have to make sure you do not mention seeing it on Youtube, or the video will be gone the next day

 

[MattKing]

One of the most famous things about Winogrand is of course the fact that he left so many exposed but undeveloped rolls of film. Professor Freyer was also involved in the project that developed them.
For anyone who hasn't seen this, here is a link to Stephen Gandy's webpage showing Winogrand's last M4 Leica: https://www.cameraquest.com/LeicaM4G.htm
Note the wear marks on the pressure plate.

 

[George Mann]

When they said that the world had gotten worse, not his photographic talent, I agree.

In fact, this world is so ugly these days that I feel that there is precious little left of photographic value that isn't obscene or vulgar.

It's no wonder that many of todays pictures are heavily altered works of graphic art.

 

[Nitroplait]

The full film is being streamed for free on PBS until 2/1:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanma...ll-things-are-photographable-full-film/11339/

Enjoy!

Thanks for the heads up!
Just made it, and it is a great portrait of one of my favourite photographers.
Luckily I have a VPN connection and could see it from Europe.

 

[CMoore]

Thanks for the heads up!
Just made it, and it is a great portrait of one of my favourite photographers.
Luckily I have a VPN connection and could see it from Europe.

How much does a VPN cost.? (Approximately)
thank you

 

[Nitroplait]

How much does a VPN cost.? (Approximately)
thank you

It depends on for how long you prepay your subscription. I have used Nordvpn for the past year, and it has worked well for me:
https://nordvpn.com
It allows 5 devices at the same time.

 

[ic-racer]

One of my goals for 2020 was to process every roll of film. I did succeed.
If some of the greatest names in photography can't find treasure in the unprocessed film of Winogrand, upon my death, my unprocessed film is essentially worthless. I'll probably ask that it be destroyed, if any would exist.

 

[moggi1964]

Thanks for the heads up!
Just made it, and it is a great portrait of one of my favourite photographers.
Luckily I have a VPN connection and could see it from Europe.

Gotta love a VPN. I get mine through Bitdefender who provide my online security. I'm looking forward to watching the movie.

 

[reddesert]

Thanks for posting this. I just managed to catch it. Hopefully it will become available again at some point. I've seen some Winogrand exhibitions but never things like the home movie footage of him photographing (or his own films). It's really good how, although it has the typical talking heads of a documentary, the vast majority of the screen time is using a blizzard of his photographs to illustrate their commentary.

Opinion on Winogrand's late unseen work has really moved over the years as the film makes clear, and there are many photos in the latter part of the film from that work. His later life was marked by a series of setbacks in part due to his unworldly nature (the film doesn't say this, but for example it was my understanding that a major reason he left New York was that he lost his rent-controlled apartment because he couldn't or navigate its conversion to a co-op; which has some parallels to his neglect of his own health).

As someone says towards the end, then there is also the question of what meaning people will extract from the photographs in 100 years. (Presuming our society sticks around that long.) Already I think the photos of the 1960s and 1970s carry some additional meanings to what they did at the time of his first retrospective in the late 80s.

 

[logan2z]

Thanks for posting this. I just managed to catch it. Hopefully it will become available again at some point. I've seen some Winogrand exhibitions but never things like the home movie footage of him photographing (or his own films). It's really good how, although it has the typical talking heads of a documentary, the vast majority of the screen time is using a blizzard of his photographs to illustrate their commentary.

Opinion on Winogrand's late unseen work has really moved over the years as the film makes clear, and there are many photos in the latter part of the film from that work. His later life was marked by a series of setbacks in part due to his unworldly nature (the film doesn't say this, but for example it was my understanding that a major reason he left New York was that he lost his rent-controlled apartment because he couldn't or navigate its conversion to a co-op; which has some parallels to his neglect of his own health).

As someone says towards the end, then there is also the question of what meaning people will extract from the photographs in 100 years. (Presuming our society sticks around that long.) Already I think the photos of the 1960s and 1970s carry some additional meanings to what they did at the time of his first retrospective in the late 80s.

The footage of him photographing comes from a Michael Engler documentary, part of which is on YouTube:



There's also a long video of a lecture he gave at Rice University that is worth watching:

 

[CMoore]

Thanks for posting this. I just managed to catch it. Hopefully it will become available again at some point. I've seen some Winogrand exhibitions but never things like the home movie footage of him photographing (or his own films). It's really good how, although it has the typical talking heads of a documentary, the vast majority of the screen time is using a blizzard of his photographs to illustrate their commentary.

Opinion on Winogrand's late unseen work has really moved over the years as the film makes clear, and there are many photos in the latter part of the film from that work. His later life was marked by a series of setbacks in part due to his unworldly nature (the film doesn't say this, but for example it was my understanding that a major reason he left New York was that he lost his rent-controlled apartment because he couldn't or navigate its conversion to a co-op; which has some parallels to his neglect of his own health).

As someone says towards the end, then there is also the question of what meaning people will extract from the photographs in 100 years. (Presuming our society sticks around that long.) Already I think the photos of the 1960s and 1970s carry some additional meanings to what they did at the time of his first retrospective in the late 80s.

Who knows what is on those....was it thousands.... of rolls of film he had in bags and drawers.
SOME of the frames must have been good.
Did they ever get developed.?