Items29The creator’s order
  1. 1Rear Window (1954)Rear Window (1954) 8.4/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 1, 1954Hitchcock's 1954 thriller is the purest film ever made about the photographer's itch to watch. James Stewart's L. B. Jefferies is a photojournalist stuck at home with a broken leg, so he turns his telephoto lens on the apartments across the courtyard, and the movie quietly makes you complicit in…0
  2. 2Funny Face (1957)Funny Face (1957) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 13, 1957Inspired by a real photographer: Fred Astaire's Dick Avery is loosely based on Richard Avedon, who designed the opening titles and supplied photographs for the film. Stanley Donen's 1957 musical is the joyful side of fashion photography. Avery spots Audrey Hepburn's bookish Jo Stockton and whisks…0
  3. 3Blow-Up (1966)Blow-Up (1966) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 18, 1966Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 Palme d'Or winner is the film photographers argue about most. David Hemmings plays Thomas, a bored Swinging London fashion photographer partly modeled on David Bailey, who snaps a couple in a park and then enlarges the frames again and again until the grain seems to…0
  4. 4Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 2, 1978Faye Dunaway's Laura Mars is a New York fashion photographer famous for glossy pictures of stylized violence, and Irvin Kershner's 1978 thriller turns that reputation back on her when she starts seeing murders through the killer's eyes. The portfolio on screen is real: Helmut Newton was…0
  5. 5Under Fire (1983)Under Fire (1983) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 21, 1983If one film on this list should be required viewing for anyone who carries a press card, it is Roger Spottiswoode's 1983 drama. Nick Nolte plays Russell Price, an American photojournalist covering the last days of the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979, with Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy as fellow…0
  6. 6Salvador (1986)Salvador (1986) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 23, 1986Based on a real photographer: James Woods plays Richard Boyle, the photojournalist who co-wrote the script with Oliver Stone, and John Savage's John Cassady is based on photographer John Hoagland. Stone's 1986 film is rough, angry and often uncomfortable, following a burned-out Boyle into El…0
  7. 7Proof (1991)Proof (1991) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 15, 1991The most original premise here: Hugo Weaving plays Martin, a blind photographer who takes pictures and has other people describe them, treating the photos as proof that the world is what they say it is. Everything turns on whom he can trust to tell him the truth about a picture. Jocelyn…0
  8. 8The Public Eye (1992)The Public Eye (1992) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 16, 1992Inspired by a real photographer: Joe Pesci's Leon "Bernzy" Bernstein is a cigar-smoking, Weegee-like figure, written after Howard Franklin could not secure the rights to Arthur Fellig's story. Franklin's 1992 noir follows a freelance crime photographer chasing bodies for the 1940s New York…0
  9. 9High Art (1998)High Art (1998) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 12, 1998Lisa Cholodenko's 1998 debut is the best film here about the art world's appetite for a photographer's private life. Radha Mitchell's Syd, an assistant editor at a photography magazine, discovers that her neighbor is Lucy Berliner, a celebrated photographer who has walked away from her career, and…0
  10. 10Pecker (1998)Pecker (1998) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 25, 1998John Waters's 1998 comedy is the cheerful answer to every grim film about exposure. Edward Furlong's Pecker works in a Baltimore sandwich shop and snaps his family, friends and neighbors with a secondhand camera, until New York art collectors discover him and his subjects start paying the price of…0