This visual documentary combines contemporary and historical perspectives. Viewers will find themselves wanting to delve into coffee-table books or take a trip to a museum. Ask people to name five photographers, from past or present, and chances are that few will think to name a woman. Highlighting Julia Margaret Cameron, Claude Cahun, Dorthea Lange, Lisette Model, Vivian Maier, Christine Spengler, and Nan Goldin-and featuring images from many more...

In 1989, on the floor of Congress, Senator Jesse Helms implored America to "Look at the pictures," while denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed social boundaries with their frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism - and ignited a culture war that rages to this day. More than 25 years later, the HBO Documentary Films presentation Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures does just that, taking an unflinching,...

This documentary uncovers the life of Vivian Maier, a nanny working in New York and Chicago who, unbeknownst to many, had a secret passion for photography. When she died in 2009 at the age of 83, she left behind thousands of photographs and undeveloped rolls of film that were discovered by several collectors at a Chicago auction house. Maier's incredible body of work now lives on and establishes her as one of the century's master street photographers....

In a 1976 interview for Spanish television, Spanish filmmaker and photographer, Carlos Saura, talks to Joaquin Soler Serrano about his films that reflect the anxiety provoked by the Spanish Civil War, and censorship in its aftermath. His films often deal with the terrors experienced in childhood, and like his mentor, Luis Bunuel, blends reality with the macabre and subjective imagination. He is married to the actress Geraldine Chaplin who starred...

"A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New...

"May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, longing to know more about her mother's heritage. When she's reunited with childhood friend Lee Munro, they become entangled in a dangerous heist involving samurai armor, and their love is threatened. Will they be able to overcome the odds against them?"--

"Una apasionada y astuta comedia romántica queer sobre atreverse a arriesgar y aceptar el amor con todas sus complicaciones. Delilah Green juró no volver a Bright Falls, donde no le quedan más que recuerdos de su solitaria infancia en la que era poco más que una carga para su fría y distante madrastra. Su vida está en Nueva York, donde su carrera como fotógrafa está tomando impulso y su cama nunca está vacía. De acuerdo, la acompaña cada...