Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Jacob A Riis - Police Lodging Room, Church Street Station, 1895 | 19991206 | 20150201 (BBC7) 20170416 (BBC7) 20170417 (BBC7) 20190113 (BBC7) 20190114 (BBC7) 20241202 (BBC7) |  Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world. Jacob A Riis - Police Lodging Room, Church Street Station, 1895. Riis's photographs of the New York slum had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society. Producer: Hilary Dunn How Riis's photographs of the New York slum had an immediate and extraordinary impact. Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Riis's pictures of New York slums. |
| 02 | Julia Margaret Cameron: Portrait Of Thomas Carlyle, 1867 | 19991207 | 20150208 (BBC7) 20170423 (BBC7) 20170424 (BBC7) 20190120 (BBC7) 20190121 (BBC7) 20241203 (BBC7) | Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879) - Portrait of Thomas Carlyle , 1867. The significance of this haunting portrait is in the life-size reproduction of the head. Her work changed portraiture for ever, asking not just who, but what am I? Producer: Hilary Dunn Colin Ford discovers how Cameron changed portraiture forever. Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Julia Cameron's life-size head portrait. From 1999. |
| 03 | Four Legs Muybridge | 19991208 | 20150215 (BBC7) 20170430 (BBC7) 20170501 (BBC7) 20190127 (BBC7) 20190128 (BBC7) 20241204 (BBC7) | Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world. Four Legs Muybridge. No animal painting and no vet's understanding was ever the same again after Eadweard Muybridge's sequence of photographs, taken in California in 1872, proved that a horse had all four feet off the ground when galloping. Producer: Hilary Dunn How Eadweard Muybridge's photos of animals revolutionised our understanding of movement. Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Eadweard Muybridge's photos of animals. From 1999. |
| 04 | Eddie Adams - Execution Of A Vietcong Suspect, 1968 | 19991209 | 20150222 (BBC7) 20170507 (BBC7) 20170508 (BBC7) 20190203 (BBC7) 20190204 (BBC7) 20241205 (BBC7) | Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world. Eddie Adams - Execution of a Vietcong Suspect, 1968. Credited with ending the Vietnam war, this photograph was reproduced in newspapers around the world within hours of it being taken. Producer: Hilary Dunn How Adams's photograph, seen around the world, impacted upon support for the Vietnam War. Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Vietnam War photo by Eddie Adams. From 1999. Execution of a Vietcong Suspect was photographed in 1968 by Eddie Adams. How Adams' photograph, seen around the world, impacted upon support for the Vietnam War. |
| 05 LAST | Lennart Nilsson - The Inner Child | 19991210 | 20150301 (BBC7) 20170514 (BBC7) 20190210 (BBC7) 20190211 (BBC7) 20241206 (BBC7) | Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world. Lennart Nilsson - the Inner Child. The first ever photograph of a live foetus taken inside its mother's womb and used on the cover of Life magazine. Producer: Hilary Dunn The impact of Nilsson's photograph of a foetus taken inside its mother's womb. Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Lennart Nilsson's picture of a foetus. From 1999. |