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Vile Bodies

Type: TV - Series or strand
Released: 2000
Length: 180 min.
Directed by: James Kent
Directed by: Edmund Coulthard
Directed by: Penny Woolcock

Crew

Producer Adam Barker

Production Company Blast! Films

Full credits (Main credits only)

Themes

Status

  • Broadcast within UK

Synopsis:

Contemporary photography is challenging some of our deepest-held taboos about the human body.
Through the work of some of the world's most controversial art photographers - including Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin, and Sally Mann - the series explores our terror of death, our deep anxieties about ageing and disability, and our moral panic around the image of childhood. Each film follows a small number of distinguished art photographers as they work with their models to create images which ask profound questions about the way we look at the world and our own place within it.
Naked focuses on how photography is challenging our image of a 'normal' human body.
Kids is a film exploring how a number of photographers are pushing beyond our 'family snapshot' images of childhood.
The Dead focuses on perhaps our ultimate taboo: death.

Synopsis:
Contemporary photography is challenging some of our deepest-held taboos about the human body.
Through the work of some of the world's most controversial art photographers - including Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin, and Sally Mann - the series explores our terror of death, our deep anxieties about ageing and disability, and our moral panic around the image of childhood. Each film follows a small number of distinguished art photographers as they work with their models to create images which ask profound questions about the way we look at the world and our own place within it.
Naked focuses on how photography is challenging our image of a 'normal' human body.
Kids is a film exploring how a number of photographers are pushing beyond our 'family snapshot' images of childhood.
The Dead focuses on perhaps our ultimate taboo: death.

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