In the Studio with Matthew Brandt (2013)
A look inside the Hollywood studio of artist Matthew Brandt. Brandt discusses his project “Lakes & Reservoirs”, which is included in “Rogue Wave 2013” at L.A. Louver.
ASX.TV: Ren Hang – A Portrait (2013)
Ren Hang doesn’t have a lot to say about himself. In the fine art environment, where emphasizing one’s own importance (or having representation to do so, while you maintain the air of expensive mystery) is the norm, this resistance to pretense could be considered a form of madness. But this hasn’t stopped the twenty-seven-year-old photographer, […]
ASX Interviews Joachim Schmid
“There was a long struggle to establish photography as an art form and that struggle was won. The war is over, photography is acknowledged as an art form. The price the photography world paid for this victory was excluding everything that is not made by artists – ‘That’s actually not photography, that’s not art, it’s […]
Robert D’Allesandro: “Glory”
“‘Glory’, the title of D’Alessandro’s 1973 book of photographs, is as understated and as charged as his pictures, each of which includes an American flag. Still timely more than three decades later, twenty-five of those pointedly black and white images remind us that, where the stars and stripes are concerned, ambivalence, irreverence and […]
Wayne Lawrence – “Orchard Beach”
Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera By Peter Baker, for ASX, November 2013 In Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic The Power Broker: Robert Moses and The Fall of New York (Vintage Books 1974) he describes Orchard Beach, a 1.1 mile stretch of sand that Moses himself had imported to the Bronx from Sandy Hook […]
Daido Moriyama: “Tights and Lips”
One of the most revered living Japanese photographers, Daido Moriyama’s work is saturated with the melancholic beauty of life at its most ordinary. His photographs epitomize wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in imperfection. Moriyama focuses in on the lost and the discarded, and finds echoes of living through the breakdown of traditional […]
Wolfgang Tillmans – “Interview” (1996)
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans interviewed back in 1996 about his image ‘Macau Bridge’ for Habitat. ASX CHANNEL: WOLFGANG TILLMANS
Viviane Sassen – “Etan & Me” (2013)
Vivianne Sassen’s, Etan & Me (2013) By Fanny Landstrom for ASX, November 2013 I would say this makes me watertooth. The dictionary suggests: this makes my mouth water. But since when is a mouth the same as teeth and what about the difference between what is mine and yours and you. (Barnabas) Familiarities tend to […]