Ken Burns

[warden]

He has a new book coming out, and it looks interesting to me.

Ken Burns’s photographic history of America – in pictures

The acclaimed documentarian has assembled a book called Our America: A Photographic History which contains some of his favourite photographs of the US and the people within it

www.theguardian.com

 

[Eric Rose]

Is Ken Burns really a photographer? I thought he was mainly someone who brought historical information and media together to produce documentaries.

That being said I am sure this is an interesting book.

 

[MattKing]

I don’t know whether Ken Burns makes photographs but he makes use of them a lot! A large percentage of his documentary movies is devoted to historical still images.

 

[warden]

Is Ken Burns really a photographer? I thought he was mainly someone who brought historical information and media together to produce documentaries.

That being said I am sure this is an interesting book.

I don't know if he is or not, but it's a book of his favorite photography so I thought I'd share it here. The images look great.

 

[pbromaghin]

I don't think Ken Burns was around to photograph do Daguerreotypes of Abe Lincoln and paddle wheel steamers.

 

[Eric Rose]

I don't think Ken Burns was around to photograph do Daguerreotypes of Abe Lincoln and paddle wheel steamers.

haha, You are so right!! I loved Ken Burn's doc on Vietnam. It was a shit show (the war, not the doc) from the outset.

 

[DREW WILEY]

He has specialized crews for photo restoration etc assignments. It's sufficient that he knows what to expect from that, and where to aim the effort, which is obviously quite laborious. So he must obviously understand much of the photographic basics.

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[ic-racer]

He probably took as many or more photographs than any photographer out there. Maybe people think the Ken Burns effect is something from photoshop.
A five second pan would require him to make 120 photographs. A photograph of a photograph is still a photograph. Ask Prince.

 

[Don_ih]

When I saw the thread title, I thought maybe he was dead.

That Ken Burns zoom-and-pan shot is enough to make him a photographer.

 

[DREW WILEY]

There are parallel PBS documentaries about himself, and how some of his features were made, including footage of him behind the camera,
as well as interviews concerning his personal philosophy about the use of restored images in story telling. If it weren't for Ken Burns and David Attenborough, and a few others, I think I'd just boot the TV out the back door once for all.