Other movies that involve photography?
Can you please tell/write of other movies that involve photography in the plot?
shareCity of God has a photographer as the main character.
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you have a good one related with war photography:
"Harrison's Flowers"
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there are lots of them :D
another very similar genre and equally moving movie is "born into brothels"..
this movie is also a documentary of a female photographer covering the life of prostitution in calcutta. though you see the women in their environment, the focus of the movie is on the outcast children that have been born within the walls of the brothels.
during her years within the brothels, the photographer and her camera became quite a novelty to the children, and as a result she felt impressed to teach them the art of self expression through the lens of a camera.
the neat difference of this movie is that the children are the photographers, documenting their environment, through their eyes.
I can't remember if all these (fictional) films feature photography but they all feature war journalists and in my opinion are superb.
Salvador
The Killing Fields
The Year of Living Dangerously
Under Fire
As for films that feature (still)photography in the plot, off the top of my head:
Blow-up
Rear Window
The Eyes of Laura Mars
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salvador for the win
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there are also a couple of national geographic documentaries that are pretty awesome. one is fairly old and was made to coincide with the release of British photo journalist Tim page's book Requiem which was a dedication to journalists that died whilst documenting the war in vietnam. the documentary pays particular attention to the deaths of Larry Burrows and Henri Huet who dissapeered in cambodia during a helicopter flight (documented also, in far greater detail, in the fascinating book 'Lost over Laos') the title of this documentary is "camera martyrs of Vietnam".
"shooting under fire" is the story of reuter's man in israel reinhardt krause and and other photojournalists both palestinian and israeli it is an amazing and disturbing documentary and showcases the breathtaking work of Ahmed Jadallah who's images are almost as good as those of Larry Burrows.
i just watched this film in my photography class at school the other day and i loved it. It left a mark on me and I was captivated by the film, and yea another great film that kinda touches on photography (not too much) is city of god, which should be watched just for the film itself whether it has any thign to do with photography or not
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the Costa-Gavras film. I saw it back when it first came out around 1969 and it had a great deal of influence on how I view photography. Without realising it until years after the fact, it had a great deal to do with why I chose photography and photojournalism as my profession!
The Hunting Party 2007 with Richard Gere.
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not the best movie in the world...actually it's nowheres close...but it's slightly entertaining and completely tolerable.
Plus there's some nice photos in it. A series by Howard Schatz actually. Great works.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0240802/