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12 episodes

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Synopsis

Every snapshot is an enigma, the capture of an instant that remains frozen in time. But what happened before ? and after ? Or just outside of frame ? The sublime series now retraces the adventure of this art form, from its beginnings to the present, revealing the hidden stories and trade secrets concealed in a series of photographs.

Every photograph is an enigma. A moment locked into a rectangle. We will never know what happened just before it was taken, or just next to it.
What had to be moved, adjusted, waited for or provoked for all the elements to suddenly come together in the frame and produce an image that once seen, is never forgotten ?

Compared to painting, the rules of the photography game are incredibly simple, requiring nothing more than a few pieces in a minimalist game of chess - a subject, a frame, light, a lens, a shutter, and a base. The importance of these pieces varies according to their position, and they are moved around permanently in relation to each other.

The collection invites viewers to discover from the inside "how it's done", and imagine themselves as actors in the complex game that is played out between photography and the real.

Episodes

Thumbnail for Photo - New Vision: Experimental Photography Of The 1920s
26min

Photo - New Vision: Experimental Photography Of The 1920s

Thumbnail for Photo - After Photography?
26min

Photo - After Photography?

Thumbnail for Photo - Press Usage
26min

Photo - Press Usage

Thumbnail for The Photo - Surrealist Photography
26min

The Photo - Surrealist Photography

Thumbnail for Photo - Staged Photography
26min

Photo - Staged Photography

Thumbnail for The Photo - Primitives Of Photography 1850-1960
26min

The Photo - Primitives Of Photography 1850-1960

Thumbnail for The Photo - New German Objectivity
26min

The Photo - New German Objectivity

Thumbnail for Photo - Photographing Intimacy
26min

Photo - Photographing Intimacy

Thumbnail for The Photo - Inventors
26min

The Photo - Inventors

Thumbnail for Photo - Pictorialism
26min

Photo - Pictorialism

Thumbnail for Photo - Found Images
26min

Photo - Found Images

Thumbnail for Photo - Conceptual Photography
26min

Photo - Conceptual Photography