Cette collection de films permet de découvrir la démarche artistique des plus grands photographes contemporains sous un angle original : au fil d'un parcours en images (planches-contact, épreuves de travail, tirages ou diapositives) commenté par son auteur, le spectateur pénètre dans l'univers secret du travail de création, au coeur du processus d'élaboration d'une oeuvre photographique.
Contacts is a collection of films about contemporary photography. Each film traces the development of an individual photographer.
With the help of the programme director, the photographer puts together a retrospective, selecting images from his or her contact sheets, proof prints and end-prints to show how his or her work has changed in character and meaning over the years. Photographers use contact sheets and proofs of various kinds as an aid to memory or a log-book. Exploring these visual jottings provides us with an invaluable insight into their working methods.

DVD 1
LA GRANDE TRADITION DU PHOTO-REPORTAGE

William Klein,
Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Raymond Depardon,
Josef Koudelka,
Edouard Boubat,
Elliott Erwitt,
Marc Riboud,
Helmut Newton,
Don McCullin,
Leonard Freed,
Mario Giacomelli,
Robert Doisneau

DVD 2
LE RENOUVEAU DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE CONTEMPORAINE

Sophie Calle,
Nan Goldin,
Duane Michals,
Sarah Moon,
Nobuyoshi Araki,
Hiroshi Sugimoto,
Andreas Gursky,
Thomas Ruff,
Jeff Wall,
Lewis Baltz,
Jean-Marc Bustamante

DVD 3
LA PHOTOGRAPHIE CONCEPTUELLE

John Baldessari,
Bernd et Hilla Becher,
Chistian Boltanski,
Alain Fleischer,
John Hilliard,
Roni Horn,
Martin Parr,
Georges Rousse,
Thomas Struth,
Wolfgang Tillmans

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