Like that of other topnotch street-action photographers, the early work of Joel Meyerowitz -- today most immediately noted for his intense documentary work at ground zero after 9/11 -- often gives you the impression that scenes arranged themselves for him as he passed by.
Theo Anthony of Baltimore, a filmmaker whose documentary work has premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives.
During this period she came into contact with the French photographer Eugène Atget, whose documentary work was at that time little known outside of Paris.
There is a "rich churning" that goes into the best documentary work, said Bill Jorden, who teaches documentary photography at the Westchester Art Workshop at the County Center in White Plains.
This weekend, we're opening an exhibit of his work at the Bronx Documentary Center, a gallery inspired by Tim's vision and friendship.
Shortly after Sept. 11, Kenneth Mandel of West Orange, a co-founder of Great Projects, learned that an engineer who had been a technical advisor on that documentary, George Tamaro, was advising the city on work at the World Trade Center site.
He will present his Libya work at the Foto8 Gallery in London tonight, along with a screening of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary "Under Fire: Journalists in Combat".
For something completely different, you can pick up (on the same label) Frank Scheffer's seventy-seven-minute film of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Helicopter String Quartet," a making-of documentary filmed at the work's première, at the Holland Festival in 1995.
The documentary looks at the work of the Tynemouth WW1 Commemoration Project which has been collating the photographs and background to the 1,700 people on the borough's roll of honour.
For all its visual invention, there's an essential element of documentary at work, a fascination with the tones and textures, the forms and moods of the teeming, clotted, already old-fashioned neighborhood.
