I know I am usually banging on about how rubbish terrestrial TV is, but I rather enjoyed the last episode of Alan Yentob's Imagine called "Let there be light". As a photographer, I was very interested in other ways artists use light to express themseves. Featured artists include:
- Liliane Lijn - Aerogel sculptures
- United Visual Artists - interactive light and sound installations for public spaces
- Charles Ross - spectra from large prisms and lenses
- Anthony McCall - light sculptures in a dark room
- James Turrell - amazing lit spaces looking onto the sky and playing on optical illusions
- and of course that old favourite - the fluorescent tube king, Dan Flavin.
I can recommend it - Yentob is an infectiously enthusiastic chap, and some of the art is mesmerising - especially Turrell's I thought. On the BBC iplayer now:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fm1vb/Imagine_Let_There_Be_Light/
A jewel adrift in a sea of dross.
