To celebrate the Mois de la Photographie, the Franco-German TV network Arte will be devoting several programs to photography, and releasing DVDs on the subject.
They will be airing the documentary Le siècle de Cartier-Bresson directed by Pierre Assouline, author of a biography of Cartier-Bresson. The film covers some of the 20th century’s greatest moments in photography, commented by the photographer himself, who opened his archives to Assouline fto use in the film. Many of the photographs have rarely been seen or published.
Arte will also be releasing a series of DVDs devoted to photography, which includes Photo, L'histoire des grands mouvements photographiques, a five-part series that explores the most important movements in photography.
The photography collection of DVDs was conceived by Luciano Rigoli and directed by Stan Neumann and Juliette Garcias. Quentin Bajac served as an artistic advisor.
Les primitifs de la photographie 1850-1860 allows viewers to discover, ten years after the invention of photography, the works of Nadar (Le Gray, Baldus, Robinson, Rejlander and Fenton), who were the first to explore all the medium’s possibilities and its relationship to the real world.
La nouvelle objectivité allemande shows the developments of a movement initiated by Becher, the Dusseldorf school. La photographie mise en scène revisits a trend which, fueled by other means of expression, has returned to the forefront of contemporary photography. The final two series explore the movements of the Pictorialistes and La nouvelle vision, tracing their influence on photography.

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Diffusions Arte
November 4th - December 2nd, 2012 at 12am
04/11 Photo: "Les primitifs de la photographie 1850-1860
11/11 Photo: "La nouvelle objectivité allemande"
18/11 Photo: "La photographie mise en scène"
25/11 Photo: "Pictorialismes"
02/12 Photo "Nouvelle vision, la photographie expérimentale des années 20

Le siècle de Cartier-Bresson
November 7th, 2012 at 10.05pm

DVD
PHOTO, L'histoire des grands mouvements photographiques
Arte Éditions 5x26mn
November 7th, 2012