Gregory Halpern On Documentary Ethics – Preoccupations, Subjectivity and Untruths (2013)
“To make ‘documentary’ work (or to work in that genre at all) often stems from the desire (although it may not be fully conscious) to present a specific vision of the world as objective fact.” ASX asks artists a single question, Cameron Van Loos begins with Gregory Halpern, April 2013 Cameron Van Loos: […]
Broomberg & Chanarin Discuss God, Human Suffering and the Act of ‘Divine Violence’
“If you read the Bible you see very quickly that God reveals himself, or at least his most prominent mode of address is through catastrophe, through violence.” Brad Feuerhelm interviews Broomberg & Chanarin for ASX, April 2013 Brad Feuerhelm: I wanted to start off with a question about the forthcoming book project with Mack. […]
Willem de Kooning – “Fire Damaged Studio Footage” (1966)
“Fire damaged footage of De Kooning in his East Hampton studio mid August of 1966. The history of the footage: De Kooning, was a close friend of mine and of the poet Frank O’Hara. A month before this footage was shot , O’Hara was killed by a car on Fire Island, Me and O’Hara had […]
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975)
“I seem to have an innate propensity which has been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes enables and demands…” “My first awareness of a bodily particular that I can recall was of the bulges made by the flattened flesh of my inner thighs as I sat […]
An Interview with Cristina de Middel (2013)
“My work is more based on sequencing than in experiencing the aesthetics of the images so the book seems to be my perfect solution, plus, it is and object and the possibility of translating a concept or idea into something you can touch, smell, tear apart or archive makes it really interesting and complete.” Brad […]
An Interview with Emma Wilcox – “Where it Falls” (2013)
Eminent Domain No. 3, 2006 Raphael Shammaa interviewed Emma Wilcox for ASX on April 15, 2013. The transcript is as follows. Raphael Shammaa: So I found that story fascinating about you getting an anonymous phone call about your building coming down where the gallery is and I was wondering, did you ever find out who […]
Pictures from Hell, The Public Wants to Know – An Interview with Stanley Greene (2006)
Chechnya, November, 1995 @ Stanley Greene “We have reached the point where we want to satisfy the bloodlust of the public to the point that we no longer have respect for them. That’s where we’re at.” Stanley Greene At Visa pour l ‘Image,2006. Interwieved by Laetitia Martinez , recorded by Cedric Batifoulier, transcripted by […]
O. WINSTON LINK: “AMERICAN RAILROADS”
Ogle Winston Link (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer. He is best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk & Western in the United States in the late 1950s. A […]