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Depth of Field: Documentaries on Photography

Documentary titles on the world of picture taking, from art and fashion shooters to war photographers and paparazzi.

Related lists:
Shooting the Messenger: Documentaries on Journalism and News Media
Behind the Seams: Fashion Documentaries
Inspiration Information: Documentaries on Art
All of my lists:
List Index

Block or Report
  • The Man Who Saw Too Much
  • Camera Store
  • Everybody Street
  • Rock Prophecies
  • Finding Vivian Maier
  • My Father’s Studio
  • Iraq's Invisible Beauty
  • 1341 Frames of Love and War
  • Shooting War
  • A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
  • Diffuse Light
  • Exposing Muybridge
  • Gabor
  • Gisèle Freund, portrait intime d'une photographe visionnaire
  • Grain: Analog Renaissance
  • McCurry: The Pursuit of Colour
  • Michael Putland: Shooting Music
  • Paper & Glue
  • The Photograph
  • The Picture Taker
  • Sergio Larraín, The Eternal Moment
  • The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
  • Bob Gomel: Eyewitness
  • Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
  • Looking for Gilles Caron
  • An Impossible Project
  • Lost in the Woods
  • Ricky Powell: The Individualist
  • Self Portrait
  • The Way I See It
  • Beauty & Decay
  • Don McCullin: Looking for England
  • Elfie Semotan, Photographer
  • Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
  • Photografaction
  • Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank
  • Martha: A Picture Story
  • Peter Lindbergh - Women's Stories
  • Picture of His Life
  • Shooting
  • Shooting the Darkness
  • Shooting the Mafia
  • Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall
  • That Click
  • F11 and Be There
  • Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
  • Harry Gruyaert. Photographer
  • Jay Myself
  • Mapplethorpe
  • Subito – Instant Photography
  • Sukita: The Shoot Must Go On
  • The Times of Bill Cunningham
  • Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
  • Confessions of the Paparazzi
  • A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
  • Hondros
  • Instant Dreams
  • Love, Cecil
  • Nude
  • Shot in the Dark
  • The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
  • Harry Benson: Shoot First
  • The Incomparable Rose Hartman
  • Learning To See
  • Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
  • Photo Farag
  • Roxanne Lowit Magic Moments
  • Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
  • Slim Aarons: The High Life
  • Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro
  • Zimbelism
  • Don't Blink: Robert Frank
  • The Eye of Istanbul
  • Frame by Frame
  • Die Frau mit der Kamera
  • Kandahar Journals
  • Light Hunter - Chasing the light in Iceland
  • The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano
  • Master and Tatyana
  • A Photographer's Journey
  • Bending the Light
  • Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning
  • In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter
  • Looking for Light: Jane Bown
  • Monk With a Camera
  • Mugshot
  • The Photographers Series: Henry Horenstein
  • The Salt of the Earth
  • Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
  • When Under Fire: Shoot Back!
  • Eye on the Sixties: The Iconic Photography of Rowland Scherman
  • Frameworks
  • Her Aim Is True
  • Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: An Objective Eye
  • The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women
  • Meeting Sebastião Salgado
  • Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
  • Tina Modotti: Dogma and Passion
  • Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures