A Tribute to Photography and the Movies

The Ten Best Movies About PhotographersNo. 2Blow-Up, 1966
The cultural trajectory that leads from the fashion world of Funny Face to the fashion world of Laura Mars passes through this seminal movie from director Michelangelo Antonioni. David Hemmings plays a mod fashion photographer (based, according to conventional wisdom, on David Bailey) romping through swinging-'60s London, only to become obsessed with a murder he might or might not have accidentally captured on film. Here the photographer's second sight becomes deeply suspect, the meaning behind his images both impenetrable and unfathomable.