Topic: Everybody Street

[Late Developer]

Just a quick heads up - particularly for those into street photography.  As I was switching channels last night, I stumbled across a 2013 documentary about a number of eminent street photographers in New York, called Everybody Street. It features a lot including Mary Ellen Mark, Bruce Davidson, Elliot Erwitt, Ricky Powell and others....

I can't find another showing in the TV listings I've been able to search but, apparently, it is available on Amazon and YouTube.

My guess is that some will have seen it but, if you haven't, I found it an interesting 75 mins of entertainment.

[Francois]

It was pretty good. I saw it a few years back and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I'll have to dig it out of one of my drives.

Is it just me or does the number of interesting or inspiring videos on photography drop year after year?

[Late Developer]

Is it just me or does the number of interesting or inspiring videos on photography drop year after year?

Not 100% sure - but it's an interesting topic. My guess it's partly due to budgetary constraints. A massive number of Brits have stopped paying their licence fee (not sure whether it's a protest, lack of funds and/or because they don't watch TV anymore) so the BBC isn't producing as many new shows and, where they are spending money, is probably on tried and tested shows rather than new artsy programmes. Then you've got YouTube - loads of content but it can be a hard task finding something genuinely new and good quality. Photographic magazines are high percentage adverts and the rest is digital gear reviews. With few exceptions, I see very few examples of new, top-tier photographers emerging. Some great photo manipulators but the "in thing" seems to be digital videography. Maybe it's different outside the UK.  There is stuff out there but it seems, to me, increasingly difficult to find.

[Francois]

Happy to see I'm not the only one noticing this trend.
Here in Canada all we have is an art show called CBC Exhibitionists (you can see it on youtube).
Then we get American TV. But there we can only talk about PBS as the rest doesn't care about art and science.
And even there, with their budget cut drastically by the current president in order to help the military, quality has dropped a lot. You see much more re-runs than it used to.

Personally I find it sad not to have any inspiring and uplifting content on the air or online more often.

[Bryan]

Happy to see I'm not the only one noticing this trend.
Here in Canada all we have is an art show called CBC Exhibitionists (you can see it on youtube).
Then we get American TV. But there we can only talk about PBS as the rest doesn't care about art and science.
And even there, with their budget cut drastically by the current president in order to help the military, quality has dropped a lot. You see much more re-runs than it used to.

Personally I find it sad not to have any inspiring and uplifting content on the air or online more often.

The president keeps trying to cut funding for PBS but Congress won't let it happen.  Public Broadcasting in the U.S. gets most of it's funding from private donors, less than 20% comes from the government.  That's why they have fund raisers all the time. 

Where I live near Seattle I get a CBC channel from Vancouver and a few BBC channels, BBC news and BBC America.  CBC is always the best way to watch the Olympics, way better coverage than the U.S. networks. 

[Francois]

Here, we don't get BBC at all.
And lets say that when you have to choose an American station and your choices are PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX; it's not hard to choose if you are looking for arts and science content 

Though I do enjoy some of the segments on CBS Sunday Morning.

[Francois]

I guess this also applies to books.
I'm back from the bookstore and couldn't find a single book that was inspiring that sold below 50$...
I guess I'll have to go back to the used book fairs.