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The
Documentary Urge: Tom Arnt
Narrated by Garrison Keillor, this award-winning documentary shows Minneapolis
photographer Tom Arndt in action: "stalking his prey" at the Minnesota
State Fair, printing his film in the quiet of his warehouse darkroom,
and preparing for a retrospective of his work with photography curator
Ted Hartwell. "I'm a common man and I photograph common people," says
Arndt. But there's nothing common about Arndt's black-and-white images,
which have been exhibited widely in the U.S., Japan, and Italy and avidly
collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of
Chicago, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. As a photographer of the
American scene, Arndt follows in thetradition of Walker Evans and Robert
Frank, his acknowledged heroes. But as thisprogram intimately reveals,
he is also an artist of deep compassion and humility, whose powerfully
"simple" and "direct" photographs seek to record both the confidence and
vulnerability of the American people.
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