Sarah Kramer

Documentary Video

PERIOD. NEW PARAGRAPH.

Director/Producer/Camera

Documentary short (14 mins.) which toured festivals in 2016, premiering at Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center as part of The New York Jewish Film Festival. Used by bar associations across the country.

For 60 years, my father’s work was his passion. When I learned he had to leave his office, I picked up my camera to bear witness. The story started to form: a portrait of an era gone by; a way of working that has all but vanished; an homage to old New York. Staring down retirement and mortality, letting go of what he loved and the accumulation of papers and files which accompanied it. It was a rite of passage. What would happen now?

TIME 100 PHOTOGRAPHS

Senior Producer/Producer of series of documentary videos (2016). Visit TIME’S 100 Photos site.

His luminous 1989 photographs of Marlboro ads, minus the text, made Richard Prince a deeply controversial-and eventually very wealthy-artist of appropriation. Subscribe to TIME ►► http://po.st/SubscribeTIME In this unprecedented exploration of 100 photographs that shaped the human experience, TIME goes behind each spectacular image to reveal how and why it changed the course of history.

UNTITLED (COWBOY) (15 mins.) Producer. A short documentary about Richard Prince's act of appropriation of the Marlboro Man riding a horse. Prince photographed the advertisement, cropping out the text. In 2005, Untitled (Cowboy) sold for $1.2 million at auction, then the highest publicly recorded price for the sale of a contemporary photograph. Prince’s photography helped to create a new art form — photography of photography — that foreshadowed the era of digital sharing and altered our understanding of a photo’s authenticity and ownership. Showed at LACMA in 2017 as part of "Richard Prince, Untitled" Exhibition.

Photographer Donna Ferrato shares the story of her creative relationship with Sweden couple Elisabeth and Bengt, her unexpected documentation of domestic violence through her coverage of their toxic marriage, and how her photos catapulted her life and this issue to the forefront of media.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (11 mins.) Producer. In this short documentary, the subject of the image reveals her identity and speaks for the first time. Donna Ferrato’s shocking picture of domestic violence unfolding brought the issue of spousal abuse out of the shadows.

40 years ago, a protest against Afrikaans in the South African town of Soweto was violently put down by police, sparking a growing fight against apartheid with Sam Nzima's photo of Hector Pieterson. Subscribe to TIME►► http://po.st/SubscribeTIME In this unprecedented exploration of 100 photographs that shaped the human experience, TIME goes behind each spectacular image to reveal how and why it changed the course of history.

SOWETO UPRISING (11 mins.) Producer. On June 16, 1976, thousands of Soweto students in South Africa set out to protest the mandatory Afrikaans-language instruction in their schools. What began as a peaceful protest soon turned into a violent uprising, claiming hundreds of lives across South Africa. Sam Nzima, a photographer for The World, took the photograph of 16-year old Hector Pieterson, who was slain in the Soweto uprising. The picture’s publication forced Nzima into hiding, but suddenly the world could no longer ignore apartheid.

Inspired by Salvador Dalí's painting, this photograph by Philippe Halsman has changed portrait photography. In a world before Photoshop, it took the ingenuity of Salvador Dali and photographer Philippe Halsman-plus some deft cat-throwing-to produce this gravity-defying scene.

DALI ATOMICUS (5 mins.) Producer. Before Philippe Halsman, portrait photography was often stilted and softly blurred, with a clear sense of detachment between the photographer and the subject. Halsman’s approach, bringing subjects into sharp focus as they moved before the camera, redefined portrait photography and inspired generations of photographers to collaborate with their subjects. As told by Philippe Halsman’s daughter in this short video, this particular image took the ingenuity of artist Salvador Dali and Halsman — plus some deft cat-throwing — to create this gravity defying scene.

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Senior Producer of video series and short documentaries (2017 - Current).

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