2/2 Albert Watson - What Do Artists Do All Day ?
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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First broadcast: Mar 2014.
Episode 11/12 Documentary following Albert Watson over the course of a day photographing the barren, beautiful landscape of the Isle of Skye.
Edinburgh-born Albert Watson is one of the world's most successful commercial and fashion photographers. He has lived in the US for over 30 years, where he has photographed more than 100 Vogue covers and created some of the most iconic celebrity images of the 20th century, from Albert Hitchcock to Naomi Campbell.
In recent years he has turned to landscape photography, and in this film he comes back to Scotland for his latest project. Albert reflects on his past work and discusses the challenges of transferring his unique style to landscape photography.
Magical time ....Scotland is so beautiful ..and Watson is a great Artist ...thanks Josh !
..Completely agree, Masha
I'd have loved to have been able to hear this!
It's a shame that the audio track has been muted. I hope that Art Documentaries can work out the copyright issue.
I assume the copyright issue is with a piece of music used rather than something someone said. You'd think with having a team of three "helpers" (one to wipe the lens, one to adjust the focus ring and another to tell the "photographer" whether or not it is focus and one of these also gets to hold the umbrella!) they would be aware of what music to use, or not. Perhaps he should stick to studio work with overpaid celebrities.
Great documentary.
His words make me think about shooting pictures!
thanks for uploading this!
2nd time ive watched this! Love it even more :-)
certainly enjoy it!
does any one knew who is that girl?
why does this slightly amuse me...taking pictures through the windscreen surrounded by a team saying its great.
+Nick Greenaway Thought the same :D I guess if you work for a famous artist, you need to praise even his mediocre work.
for some reason there's no sound, all the volumes are turned up!
No audio?
no audio on this one
What mist/fog machine is he using?
What kind of camera is he using?
hes using a Phase One medium format camera.
no sound
Does anyone know who does the music for this episode? or where I can find out about this episodes music?
1:10 Burial - Forgive
10:11 Michael Galasso - Scene 2
excellent thanks!!!
+dmeyreles 4:50 Moby - A seated night (Ambient mix)
+dmeyreles 7:35 John Fahey - Sunflower river blues
What did he do with these pictures? Sell them? Did he recuperate the cost of the crew and all the time and travel?
ImprovisedSurvival Yeah, he sells them, he's a fine art photographer, a very sought after one at that, taking the iconic Steve Jobs photo (the on on his biography I believe) and like 100 Vogue covers and a lot of fine art stuff too, lots of Gallery time, his pictures have had
*****
Thank you for the reply.
And there I am walking up and down mountains and along cliffs with all my equipment on my own without a crew to set everything up for me
That Technician is a FOX!!!!
She is a peach.
I can excuse a crew for carrying equipment etc, and even the smoke machines, but for me if you don't process your own shots, then you simply can't take credit for the final image, so disappointing, I've been taking landscape photos for about 4 years and I would be disappointed with these images, they lack detail, and are drastically underexposed
And you are judging the images from video? That's a beginner's mistake. Watson is highly skilled at processing his own images. He has someone else do it for a specific reason: efficiency.
Do you think any of the great photojournalists processed their own shots in the darkroom....during a war? It was all sent in. Digital darkroom is no different.
So he`s got a guy to carry his tripod, another one to attach his camera to the tripod, a pretty girl to check his images one by one via a laptop and a van full of props like sparklers and smoke machines. He might as well have stayed in New York and phoned it in, along with the pretentious chat.
There is nothing wrong with having a creative team. If you ever get to his level, you may do the same. He went to film school where working as a team is the norm. And a lot of his photography requires that too, so he is used to it. And you can be sure that he has calculated the costs and determined that they will be more than recouped.
Great frames & storytelling by the film makers/ cinematographers in harmony with the landscapes. The photographer ..not so much. An uninspiring protagonist.
Extremely disappointing. " I can't wait to get back to New York to work on these pictures" Once a fashion photographer always a fashion photographer. Smoke machines and other tricks to create mist !! His landscape images are totally contrived.
I go back over and over to the same locations to get the genuine conditions of light weather sun mist rain clouds etc etc and work with those. If want mist then I don't use some fake instrument to create it. I wait until the time of year is right and nature provides it. I have to be in tune with the environment and location to be there at the right place at that specific moment. That is what makes an image special. A chance magical moment. What is the difference between Albert Watson"s landscape images and just creating them in a studio or film set ..... Nothing. Stick to fashion. those images I really give you lots of credit for.
Peter White I couldn't agree more. All of his methods are so "synthetic". It's not about capturing that unique moment for him. & to be quite honest the final images aren't even that great. You can tell his eye isn't trained for landscape photography.
+Peter White But his photographs are great, Mr. White! That is all that matters
+Peter White I tend to agree. A famous photographer parachuted into a location with full team back-up. The results are professional of course, but uninspired I find. True landscape photographers tend to live in the landscape and 'stalk' it over weeks or months to get the right shot. They are also more likely to use an old-fashioned 4x5 field camera than the most expensive digital camera in the world. All style no substance... but he'd probably take that as praise.
+Peter White
What absolute bollocks.
Photography is an art and thankfully artists do not have to satisfy the pretentious sensibilities of others (unless those "others" are the clients.)
Nature does not always give you all the perfect shot and that's ok, what's more important is the artistic expression, the vision of the photographer as well as satisfying the client brief. When one lives on the other side of the planet and is faced with time and cost constraints to meet the demands of paying clients, one does not have the luxury of revisiting remote locations multiple times, waiting for that perfect shot.
Furthermore, an artist is not obliged to stick to a particular genre. Fine art photography crosses those boundries to satisfy the artist's vision.
Your right photography is an art. The art is that special moment and the eye to capture it. Manipulation is art all unto itself Capturing magical moments requires patience . The beauty of landscape photography is its wonder uniqueness and unpredictability . Capturing these is the art.
He doesn't do anything
Not true. He is the director. He is in charge of the creative process and achieves the photos that he envisions.
9:35 get out of the car old man. Get you're crew and go outside.
Matt Heffernan Not you you bloody idiot ! ......Cera Tu !
Matt Heffernan I was in fact concurring with you
Ah shit sorry dude! Didn't even read it properly just went in blind. Indeed, that picture from the car was wicked!
Matt Heffernan No worries man, it happens ;)
Rude comment.
He gets a lot of money for doing that, so yes he can afford all that crazyness.
no, the most crazy one is to live there for 3 months for one perfect photo just like the other comments keep critique him about using the artificial mist... come on, you dont really have 3 months to live in the mountains
There is actually no crazyness. It is all very purposeful, creative and efficient.
All I got from this is that you can walk around with a £30,000 kit and two assistants and still produce pretty mediocre images.
I agree with you. He doesn't have an artistic eye for landscape photography. His landscape photographs are good, but they are not special. He turns out what he said he would not do in Skye, postcards and posters.
Then you missed the point. You missed a lot actually.
Gosh he is not creative at all you give me that chance or opportunity with a crew I would create something more unique than tree shots or landscapes.
Dude, that guy has been showing his creativity for 40 years! And that's why now he has a "oportunity" with a crew.
Not creative ? What makes these shots not creative?
I may not love all the photographs shown here but certainly there were some that were just beautiful. Photography it self is a creative process. Knowing how your camera works and how to capture and manipulate light is a skill (as well as other things like composition ect), putting all those things together and creating something that makes you think, feel, or say wow, is something else. To come here and say,"Gosh he is not creative at all" is like saying, "well I really wasn't trying to understand anything here". All you need is a camera dude and maybe something to process the images. The opportunity is always there you don't need a crew to create unique images its all you man. This guy has years under his belt and had been shooting with cameras that had no playback to see images right away. He knows what the image will look like before he takes them.
you obviously don't know photography.
He is one of the most creative and successful photographers on the planet. If you can do better, go knock yourself out.
That's odd. My first thought was 'I don't need a crew to create something like that'. And I don't. Why would you?