The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer
"...Ostensibly, this is a documentary profile of Elsa Dorfman, a photographer known for her..."
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July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Sophia Lawson's Debut Photography Show Celebrates Her Second Home, the Mohawk
Sabrina Ellis performs at Lawson's "Still Sounds" on Wednesday
"...debut exhibition, "Still Sounds," celebrating a decade in freelance photography...."
Jan. 13, 2023 Music Feature by Trent Johnson
Austin Filmmakers Take Nudist Documentary Naked Gardens to Tribeca
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan explore the vulnerability of a nudist resort in Naked Gardens
"...naturel, Naked Gardens, receives its world premiere in the documentary competition at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New..."
June 10, 2022 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki
Secrets Shared
The documentary photos of Donna DeCesare
"...the UT journalism faculty in 2002, teaching courses in photography and documentary video. Her photographs have been exhibited around..."
Nov. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Framing the Border
Photography of the Region Between Mexico and the U.S.
"...handful of people who all share a passion for photography and for the region encompassing Mexico and the southwestern..."
May 1, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen
Truth Seeker
Photographer Sebastião Salgado bears witness to the world in black and white
"...Africa. He viewed this as a chance encounter with photography. Three years later, he quit his profession and returned..."
Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Andrew Long
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
The great photographer's work reappraised and redeemed
"...will look like photographed.” This SXSW Special Jury Prize-winning documentary recounts the all-too-short career of this true American artist..."
Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him
"...Helmut Newton would have despised the idea of a documentary of his life. "Most photographers are terribly boring people,"..."
July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Tim's Vermeer
Vermeer must have painted by using a camera obscura and Tim Jenison spends four years proving the method in this fascinating documentary by Penn & Teller.
"...brief running time and revelatory story, this neat, fascinating documentary ought to be required viewing for art history students..."
March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Cuba by Alan Pogue / Timeless Exposures: Europe, New York, Cuba
Local Arts Reviews
"...Texas Center for Documentary Photography,..."
Jan. 28, 2000 Arts Review by Ben Willcott
Oscar Shorts 1993
"...year in the office Oscar pool, the categories of documentary and live-action shorts are usually met with shoulder shrugs..."
March 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Trouble the Water
This film about the human toll of Hurricane Katrina is one of the best and most inspirational things to come out of the disaster.
"...and this, the 2008 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary winner, Trouble the Water. So shocking and disturbing were..."
Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Leopard Son
"...a Disney cartoon, the film is a G-rated feature-length documentary that tracks the growth of a newborn leopard in..."
Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
March of the Penguins
The nature photography is so intimate, and the story of the penguins' mating is so carefully crafted into a sustained and satisfying narrative, that they become epic heroes: brave, if not fearless, and stalwart fools for love.
"...to the air. When the crew of this painstaking documentary captures the death of an egg, the spectacle is..."
July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Texas Gamut
Titles From Texas
"...Fernando Castro, and Lois Parkinson Zamora, Image and Memory: Photography From Latin America, 1866-1994 (University of Texas Press, $65..."
May 15, 1998 Books Feature
The Architecture of Doom
"...Directed by: Peter Cohen. Using archival footage, still photography, and clips from propaganda films, the impeccably researched documentary..."
Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis
L. Nowlin Gallery
It's not an easy time to open a gallery, but for Lesley Nowlin, it's the right time
"...thought: 'That's ridiculous. ... There's such a lack of photography galleries in Austin.'"..."
May 1, 2009 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe
Taking Pictures
This year, for whatever reasons, Dick Holland writes, we have been blessed with photography books of great beauty and intelligence. Several of the leading figures in the canon of 20th-century photography are represented in this season's unusually rich outpouring, among them Eugéne Atget, Walker Evans, and Edward Steichen.
"...right, where you may see a separate section titled "Photography." Go there; it will restore your sanity. And particularly..."
Dec. 15, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland
2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program B
Horror and hope in America's underdog communities
"...good thing or a bad thing that a short documentary just leaves you craving more of the story. That's..."
Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Chimpanzee
The Planet Earth filmmakers turn their cameras on an orphaned chimp.
"...How to ruin a perfectly engrossing nature documentary in three easy steps: 1) Aggressively anthropomorphize the subject...."
April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Even though Born Into Brothels – winner of the 2004 Oscar for Best Documentary – is a devastating portrait of impoverished Calcutta children who are born into the sex trades, the film is also an inspiring document about human possibilities.
"...Kauffman. Winner of the 2004 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Born Into Brothels is a devastating portrait of impoverished..."
March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Chop Suey
"...here. More like a glorified home movie than a documentary, Chop Suey is a primer on 20th-century photography, a..."
Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Natural Selection
This locally shot black comedy examines the bizarre feedback loop that exists among celebrity psychopaths, the increasingly tabloidized mainstream news media, and, not least, our own bad selves.
"...Odom are working at cross purposes with director of photography Rhet Bear, whose fiendishly inventive conjury of classic creepo..."
Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Atlantis
"...movie's romantic lead Rosanna Arquette. Atlantis is a 75-minute-long documentary shot completely underwater. The CinemaScope cinematography is so extraordinary..."
July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
"...people consciously think of: that is, the directors of photography who create a film's “look.” Genuinely engaging, this is..."
April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Cove
This marvelously made agitprop documentary exposes the dark secrets that underpin the world’s dolphin mania.
"...one of the speakers in this marvelously made agitprop documentary that enlightens, horrifies, and is a call to action..."
Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Shot on location in Mongolia with a real nomad family, The Cave of the Yellow Dog blurs the line between documentary and fiction and, in doing so, creates its own singular dramatic language.
"...Cave of the Yellow Dog blurs the line between documentary and fiction and, in doing so, creates its own..."
Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Born in China
The Disneyfication of nature continues
"...same exquisite attention to detail exhibited by the animal photography...."
April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Earth
This nature film is derived from the Planet Earth miniseries and is edited with an eye toward the kid-friendly audience.
"...Planet Earth miniseries. Planet Earth was the first nature documentary to be shot in high definition; it first debuted..."
April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Art Galleries
A pair of new visual-arts showplaces gives the art of the camera its due
"...its rare galleries that focused (no pun intended) on photography. But in less than two months, two more have..."
