Duration: 2'39''
James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world.
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1: A New Reality | Age of the Image
James Fox explores how technological advances in the early 20th century created new ways of seeing the world, making links between artist...
Brownie camera | Age of the Image
James Fox explores the history of the Brownie camera and how Kodak's ''point-and-shoot'' revelation was the game-changer for photography.
Cezanne and time | Age of the Image
James Fox takes time to study a Cezanne painting to uncover the depth of the work, revealing distorted dimensions and nothing quite like ...
Hannah Hoch | Age of the Image
Hannah Hoch, known for her photomontages, was initially inspired by the half-tone process from newspapers, particularly a photo of Albert Eins...
Hollywood | Age of the Image
James Fox explores the major development of film that occurred in Hollywood, LA and the filmic techniques that were born.
The selfie | Age of the Image
James Fox highlights the first ever ''selfie'' and considers why the selfie has become such a phenomenon.
1: 1800-1914: Fixing the Shadows | The Genius of Photography
How a technical problem was solved in 1839, paving the way for practical application.
1: Bagpuss | Man Like Mobeen
Mobeen receives a surprise visit from armed police, who arrest Eight on suspicion of supplying drugs to schoolkids in Small Heath.
1: Kingmaker | The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty
Rupert Murdoch must decide who he wants to be Britain's next prime minister, whilst a battle for succession begins within his ...
2: 1918-1945: Documents for Artists | The Genius of Photography
Following World War I, photography was the medium of the age, and used to promote radical utopia.
2: The Rebel Alliance | The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty
An alliance forms, including Hugh Grant, that is willing to take on the Murdoch empire. A scandal threatens Rupert's ...
2: Wifey Riddim | Man Like Mobeen
When Mobeen learns that his little sister Aks has been suspended from school for fighting, he realises that he might not be the best role m...
3: Right Place, Right Time | The Genius of Photography
Photography at its best makes viewers eyewitnesses to events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima.
3: The Comeback | The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty
With Rupert Murdoch's reputation in tatters, he mounts an incredible comeback that involves Brexit and Donald Trump, and th...
3: Upper Room | Man Like Mobeen
When the boys visit Eight's Dadha on his deathbed, they are disturbed to hear he has been keeping a dark secret and needs help.
4: Entertainers | Icons
Kathleen examines the lives of Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie. She uncovers their greatest achievements and explores...
4: H-ALTRight | Man Like Mobeen
Staring hate, violence and societal fractures in the face, Mobeen and his crew see the far right in their truest form at an anti-Islam demons...
4: Paper Movies | The Genius of Photography
The three decades from the late 1950s onwards were the golden age of photographic journeys and colour photography.
5: Television | Inventions That Changed the World
Jeremy Clarkson looks at the television. He looks at television inventors John Logie Baird and Philo T Farnsworth and it's ...
5: We Are Family | The Genius of Photography
How the medium translates personal relationships into photographic ones, and what happens when photographers turn their cameras ...
6: Snap Judgements | The Genius of Photography
A look at the current state of the art, from phone cameras to digital post-production, and the rediscovery of 19th century tec...
Albert Watson | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC
The difference with Albert Watson's landscape photography is that he manipulates the images using any means necessary; in...
Albert Watson | What Do Artists Do All Day?
Documentary following Albert Watson over the course of a day photographing the barren, beautiful landscape of the Isle of Skye.
And Then There Was Television | imagine...
Alan Yentob celebrates the 70th anniversary of the world's first scheduled high-definition television service, by the BBC from Ale...
Angus McBean | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC
Archive recordings of Angus McBean reveal his beginnings in the theatre taking portrait photographs of Laurence Olivier.
Ansel Adams | On Camera: Photographers at the BBC
Ansel Adams spoke to the BBC a year before his death about some of his most famous landscape photographs.
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