Ken Burns – Flash photography - Joy
The Vietnam War, poetry and flash photography with Ken Burns, Sasha Dugdale & Kate Flint.
Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Matthew Sweet discusses the Vietnam War with the film maker Ken Burns who has spent the last decade making a monumental documentary about America's ill fated war in South East Asia. The award winninng poet, Sasha Dugdale, reads from her latest collection, Joy; and Kate Flint traces the history of flash photography from its origins in the nineteenth century to Weegee and Gordon Parks in the twentieth and Hiroshi Sugimoto and Martin Parr today
The Vietnam War - a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is released by PBS as a 10 disc DVD set.
Joy by Sasha Dugdale is published by Carcanet .
Flash! Photography, writing and Surprising Illumination by Kate Flint, Provost Professor of Art History and English at the University of Southern California is out now.
Producer: Zahid Warley .