American Photography on ABC

[Paul]

If your bored tonight (Sunday 23/Oct) here is something to watch.

11:00 pm ABC NSW
American Photography - A Century Of Images : The Developing Image: 1900 - 1934 (55 mins , Rated: G)
Genre: Arts and Culture

Explores how photography came to prominence in every part of life and examines the pictures Americans have taken and traces where these photographs have taken the USA.

[birddog114]

Paul,
Good finding! thanks.
I thought it's rated : A not PG

[Paul]

Will soon find out!

[xorl]

Yep, it definately wasn't PG, they covered some photography from WW1. Keep an eye out for this on the next 2 Sunday's as well since it is a 3 part series. The first one was very interesting.

[Paul]

Yes Mark it was a good watch for a slow Sunday evening, I think the following weeks will be even more interesting as the technoligy increases throughout the decades.

[sirhc55]

I too watched - a very good program. We can all learn a lot from those earlier photographers

[Paul]

Just a reminder that part 2 is on tonight at 10.55pm on ABC.

American Photography: A Century of Images - 1935 - 1959 The Photographic Age (55 mins , Rated: G)
Genre: Arts and Culture

Explores how photography was adopted by the mass media. In the 1930s an explosion of print media devoted to distributing photographs delivered images to all Americans.

[stubbsy]

Thanks Paul. I was bummed I missed the first one (read your post the day after). I'll go set my Topfield to capture it right now.

[Alpha_7]

Thanks for the heads up, watching it now.. very interesting stuff.

[Paul]

Another heads up,
Last in the 3 part series tonight at 10.45 on ABC

American Photography: A Century Of Images - 1960 - 1999 Photography Transformed (55 mins , Rated: G)
Genre: Arts and Culture

This final episode looks at surveillance photography, the Cuban missile crisis, searing images from the Vietnam War and civil rights violence. It explores image-driven celebrity and the growth of photography as an art form.

A worthy tri-series to watch, I've loved every minute of it!

[Hendrix]

Found last nights episode very interesting, what was the program used to picture the missing kids at an older age?

[DaveB]

what was the program used to picture the missing kids at an older age?

It looked like just an image editor. The same tasks (transformation, merging two images, etc) could be done in Photoshop. In almost exactly the same workflow as shown last night.

It's possible that there's software that analyses bone structure and automates some of the extrapolation, but I think a lot of it comes down to "informed artists impressions". At least, that's all they demonstrated on the program.

[Hendrix]

It looked like a specialised program to me, it did take into acount the underlying bone structure, the operator mentioned that while working on the photo.

Also earlier on SBS there was a program that talked about what the earlier jews and jesus could have looked like, and they used a similiar program that worked with the bone structures.

Amazing technology I reckon