The Genius of Photography: Having conquered the street and the road photographers approached the final frontier: the family and the self. The Genius of Photography We are Family is about what happens when photography translates personal relationships into photographic ones when strangers celebrities lovers and children get fed to the camera. Its also about what happens when photographers turn their cameras on themselveswhat they choose to reveal and just what they try to conceal.The chronological heartland of the programme is the me decades of the 1970s and the 1980s. From Diane Arbuss freaks (we meet Colin Wood the manic boy clutching the hand grenade in Central Park) to Richard Avedons confrontations with celebrities like Marylin Monroe from the confessional diaries of Larry Clark and Araki to the uncomfortably intimate family portraits of Sally Mann and Richard Billingham the series takes a photographic journey into some of the most intriguing ideas of the photographic self including an unforgettable encounter as Nan Goldin photographs Joey the transsexual..

Starring:

David Byrne

Genre:

Documentary