These females (girls and ladies, alike) are not just charming and pretty -- they are analogue enthusiasts as well! Take a look at the most loveliest female photographers found in movie reels!
Last week, male hormones reigned as masculine protagonists and their majestic cameras were showcased in the first installment of Them and Their Cameras: Male Photographers in the Movies. Now, let us explore the movies’ heroines and their fabulous cameras!
In relation to the Best of the Best series, which also featured some of the most disarming female photographers in history (like Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt, Julia Margaret Cameron), here is another tribute to women who have infinite love affairs with their cameras.
The young Amelie in Amelie, 2001
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Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice, 1988
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Kirsten Dunst as Nicole Oakley in Crazy/Beautiful, 2001 (featuring an original LC-A in the first photo)
Julia Roberts as Anna in Closer, 2004
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Nicole Kidman as Diane Arbus in Fur, 2006
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Dianna Agron as Sarah in I Am Number Four, 2011
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Aoi Miyazaki as Shizuru Satonaka in Tada, Kimi Wo Aishiteru, 2006
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Juliette Binoche as Tereza in Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1988
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Penelope Cruz as Maria Elena and Scarlett Johansson as Cristina in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 2008
images via Which of these (non)-fictional photographers do you like most and why? What other films portray stories about female photographers? Perhaps you can find a film still of them and their cameras, too? Share it with us a comment below.
62 comments
thewretched
Out of the selection, i think Amilie has to be my favourite. She's sporadic, imaginative, unconventional... everything a Lomographer should be!
awesomesther
I love Sarah in I am Number Four :) but yes Amelie is really one intriguing character! Love them :)
susielomovitz
I want all the cameras and Nicole Kidman's dresses :P.
clickiemcpete
Oh, Amelie was such a cool movie and she is an enchanting character. But mostly I hate new movies as they are usually terribly boring and derivative or full of disturbing violence. And they are mostly over edited and too slick. I generally prefer old movies especially pre 1960's.
pomps
I love Amelie, how adorable! Also Beetlejuice is great. The Unbearable Lightness of Being is one of my favorite books but I haven't seen the movie
webo29
Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments - http://en.wikipedia.(…)ing_Moments
anarollemberg
The movie mentioned by @webo29 is a great one. I've watched it last week and loved it! I was going to write an article about it... maybe I'll still do it. Oh, and Amélie is my favorite movie of all time, so... that's an easy choice for me.
gelibee
Hi @basterda! I love love love Nicole Kidman! Btw, this looks like an interesting movie to watch http://www.metacafe.(…)ie_trailer/ :)
webo29
Gwyneth Paltrow in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow http://www.skycaptai(…)80x1024.jpg
nural
I loved Crazy Beautiful!!! I should maybe watch it again tonight!!!
nicolas_noir
@webo29 Yes at Sky Captain! She comes out with some great quotes in that too! I like her rationing of film best!
grazie
Hi @basterda! I'll have to pick Winona Ryder as Lydia in Beetlejuice!
lusisilu
from these Amélie and Penélope
but from other, Liv Ullmann as Elisabeth Vogler in persona admittedly.
freckleface
I LOVE Woody Allen! Even though Vicky Christina isn't one of his best works, I'm still gonna have to go with it. Close tie with Amelie nevertheless...
street_smile
Lydia Deetz from beetlejuice, I watched it recently, so funny
Parents: Don't worry Lydia, we'll build you a darkroom.
Lydia: MY WHOLE LIFE IS A DARKROOM
she was also rocking the Polaroid =)
annie_fannie
ilovefridays
eatmepamcy
cynthiadias
devildi
my fav is amèlie .... :-)
pussylove
Juliette Binoche is so beautiful, taking photos while crying... Also like the LCA with Kirsten Dunst!
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daihowell
This is a fantastic artical :)
One of the best things you could ever read on a Saturday morning, its put me in a really good mood so thank you ^_^. But I would like to suggest Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen in blood diamond to this list.
wn7ant
Gwenyth Paltrow as Polly Perkins in Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow. She ran into ever photographers nightmare. That is, I'm doing something unbelievable, I want to document it, I have 3 pictures left in my camera, and I forgot more film. I love the character in that movie. She's beautiful, classy, intelligent, and skilled at what she does. She gets my vote.
erizone
fredericomalaca
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kisaki
I love Crazy/Beautiful: the cameras and what she does with the photos (her journal). :D
cehall422
anhvu
thelonghaulproject
nick_a_tron
Amelie is a true Lomographer! I loved that film so much I named my daughter after her.
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ahleng90
i've watched all of them and feeling like shoot shoot shoot right now..haha..great article
hotweinerdog
gelagoo
Yay Miyazaki Aoi! :D
cynthiadias
basterda
Will definitely include The Lovely Bones' Susie Salmon when I update this article. Thanks for the input everyone! :)
hanibale
very nice article
missnothing
Lilo in Lilo&Stitch! She is the Disney's little photographer!
shiseiten
Tada Kimi wo Aishiteru! It's one of my all time favorite Japanese movies. So heartbreaking. And the Nikon in I Am Number Four is the same version that I have. :D
webo29
Anki Lidén as Ingemar's mother in My Life as a Dog.
mikeman85
I absolutely am in love with Nicole Kidman's Rolleiflex in Fur. And the what looks like Hasselblad Julie Robert's uses in Closer. Both camera's I frequently fantasize about one day owning, (if only there were more affordable for a young designer like myself, oh some day some day).
superawesomebigelow
Amanda Peet in A Lot Like Love. She took awesome long exposures.
myvitaminx
nicole kidman rulz!
basterda
@superawesomebigelow Amanda Peet in A Lot Like Love was defiinitely on my list but I couldn't find a decent screen capture of her holding a camera. :(
okashii
I haven't seen all of them - I loved Dunst in Crazy/beautiful as a teenager but I have to go with Amelie...and thanks for all the movie-suggestions!
vanecorp
Luv this article.. But, you forgot Michelle Forbes in Kalifornia
basterda
OMG @vanecorp THANK YOU for reminding me Kalifornia!
xkelx
my favourites are amélie poulin and diane arbus.
diane arbus was an incredible photographer, and nicole kidman is such a talented actress. i like amélie because i have the same kodak instamatic, and i think for obvious reasons, every girl has a little amélie inside.
there's some scene about vicky christina barcelona where she's shooting in digital and then you see her developing the supposed negatives or something like that and i remembered not liking that at the time i saw the movie...
have to check crazy/beautiful, and some others too!
xkelx
oh and there's Marion Cotillard - Josephine Bloom in Big Fish, although she has a little role in the film, which is one of my favourites ever... she has a leica m6 : )
katey_finley
The character Lucy Berliner from the movie High Art is based on Nan Goldin, whose style meshes well will the lomo philosophy.
kathleenmendoza
My favorite would be Aoi Miyazaki! <3
fed
Very interesting! Nicole kidman look absolutly gorgeous in "Fur", although very unlike the photographer she is based on, Diane Arbus!
I just noticed another "lomographer" caracter on film, Eddie Redmayne´s caracter Gordy from"The Yellow Handkerchief". There´s a scene where he is asking for an expired disposable camera that because it´s "better". Then you see him smashing it on the ground and stepping on it so light leaks would occur. Really felt I could relate with the character after that.
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