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  1. Leaning into the Wind (2018)

    aka: Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy

    Director
    Thomas Riedelsheimer
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £6.99

    Documentary following artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes...

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  2. 19th Century Craze for Steresoscopic Photograhy, The (2018)

    Subject
    Film studies; History

    Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought startlingly vivid images within reach of a mass audience,...

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  3. Mathematical Skyline, The (2017)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    Talk by Simon Salamon, Professor in Geometry at Kings College, London. The study of perspective in art has led to a branch of mathematics called projective geometry, which addresses the relationship between...

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  4. Britain in Focus: A Photographic History (2017)

    Subject
    Art; Technology
    Distribution
    Out of distribution

    In this three part series, Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain’s greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured our changing lives and country. The...

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  5. From Trash to Treasure: Loss, Value and the Photo Archive (2017)

    Subject
    Media studies

    Podcast. Catherine E. Clark (MIT) discusses the life cycle of anonymous photographic archives. Her key example is the revaluation and profit generation of an archive of amateur prints and albums collected in...

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  6. Creeping Garden, The (2017)

    Director
    Tim Grabham; Jasper Sharp
    Subject
    Biology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £17.99

    This documentary explores the world of the plasmodial slime mould as revealed through the eyes of the fringe scientists, mycologists and artists who work with them. Long overlooked by biologists, in recent...

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  7. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

    Producer
    Fenton Bailey; Randy Barbato
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (108 minutes)

    Feature length film about controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, featuring previously unreleased interviews with Mapplethorpe himself as well as family, friends and lovers.

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  8. Mathematics of Processing Digital Images, The (2016)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    In an age of digital images we have all become photographers. High quality cameras in mobile phones, together with Apps which send images to our contacts, have transformed the way in which we communicate....

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  9. Abu Ammar is Coming (2016)

    Director
    Naeem Mohaiemen
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Film

    A photograph showing five men: four stare out of a window, one looks at the camera. The light has a soft glow. The stage is a bombed building. All five men wear military clothes. Abu Ammar was the nom de...

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  10. Salt of the Earth, The (2015)

    Director
    Wim Wenders; Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
    Producer
    David Rosier
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £9.99

    A biographical documentary film portraying the works of the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.

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