XV New British Film Festival
City:
Yekaterinburg
Cinemas:
Salut
Dates:
28 November – 3 December 2014
Partners:
British Council
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В поисках света: Джейн Боун
Looking for Light: Jane Bown
Country: Great Britain
Year: 2014
Directors: Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte
Genre: documentary
Language: English
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation, anecdote and candid reflection. In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper, she became renowned for insightful, highly individualistic portraits of the famous. Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth, the Beatles, Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger, Margaret Thatcher, etc. Bown's great mantra is, 'photographers should neither be seen nor heard'. Diminutive in stature and with an all-important ability to blend into the background, Bown was the antithesis of the Fleet Street, macho photojournalist. This feature documentary is a beautiful portrait of both Jane Bown, her determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world, and her process of working as a photographer. It includes interviews with Rankin, Nobby Clark and Don McCullin and her many iconic photographs of the great ...
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Schedule:
1 December, Monday