P.O.V.: "PORTRAITS AND DREAMS"
PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
Elizabeth Barret and photographer Wendy Ewald collaborated on this new edition of P.O.V., which tells her story of getting others to tell their stories – and what a story it is. In the 1970s, she taught elementary school at three schools in Letcher County, Kentucky, and armed her young students with cameras, dispatching them with orders to photograph themselves and their rural and mostly poor Appalachian homes, communities and lifestyles. A decade later, Ewald published some of those results in her well-received book collection, Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians.And now, four decades after that, she and Barret present this updated TV version, which, sort of like Michael Apted’s Up documentary series, not only presents some of those works, but locates and interviews some of those former young photographers, many of whom are now parents with kids and grandkids of their own. Check local listings.