Dorothea Lange: The Internment of Japanese American Citizens
“This is what we did. How did it happen? How could we?” – Dorothea Lange
Category Archives: Masters
William Eggleston: NY MOMA Press Release (1976)
“These photographs are clearly fixed facts of the real world impartially recorded by the camera, but they are something more as well.”
Francis Bacon on Violence, Suffering and Painting for Himself
Painting, 1946 @ The Estate of Francis Bacon “”I think that life is violent and most people turn away from that side of it in an attempt to live a life that is screened. But I think they are merely fooling themselves. I mean, the act of birth is a violent thing, and the act […]
Marc Riboud on Photography, Hard Work and How We are All the Same
Tthe more cultures and countries you get exposed to, the more you see that people are alike. We are all the same.” Marc Riboud
Boris Mikhailov On Photography, the KGB and Staying Alive in the Soviet Union
“I was 28-years-old when I took my first photo, and it felt good.”
Brassai’s LGBT and Sex-Filled ‘Paris at Night’ is Spectacular
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William Eggleston: Who’s Afraid of Magenta, Yellow and Cyan?
Eggleston brought MoMA around eight carousels of slides made around 1970 from which Szarkowski chose seventy-five for the exhibition and, of those, forty-eight for publication in the Guide.
A Short Interview with Saul Leiter (2013)
“I don’t apply labels to my photographs. I’d much rather have Max Kozloff do that. He’s much better at understanding and describing what I do.”
William Klein’s Tokyo Pop
William Klein was invited to Tokyo in 1961, where he shot for three months and made more than 1,000 pictures.
Raymond Pettibon – The Art of Black Flag (1980s)
Pettibon’s drawings say: sure, I’ll suck dick for cigarettes.
Exploring, Entering a World and Earning Your Dues – An Interview with Bruce Davidson
USA. Hampton, Virginia. 1962. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos “Look, I’m kind of an explorer. I’m entering a world and it takes time.” A Magnum photographer, Bruce Davidson has been renowned since the late fifties for his photographs of gangs in Brooklyn, and subsequent projects including New York’s East 100th street, circus performers, civil rights marchers […]
Pop Art / Art Pop: The Andy Warhol Connection
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat @ The Warhol Foundation “Because of Andy Warhol, it’s no longer possible to just do what you do and not have to act it out 24 hours a day. His style of doing things changed everybody’s idea of what the values were that could make you a star. And as a […]