ABSTRACT
Representations of Henry Moore span a range of media. Thanks to the 2010 BBC digitization of documentaries on Moore, it is now possible to access a range of audiovisual discourses about Moore and analyse the changing views of his public identity. John Read’s six BBC films on Moore, from 1951 to 1978, form a distinct group, through which Read in collaboration with Moore constructed film portraits of the sculptor and his evolving working practices. This chapter first offers a brief history of the film portrait as a mode of the arts documentary genre, and it then analyses the six Read films as portraits that capture moments from a sculptor’s life on screen.
