Robert Adams on Books, Shows and Survival in Photography (Excerpt) (2011)
“Having a book allows you to prove that you’re not just a one or two picture photographer.” An Interview with Alexa Dilworth of the Center for Documentary Studies, April, 2011 (Excerpt) How is having a book of one’s own photographs published important to a photographer? RA: It allows you to respond effectively to your […]
ASX.TV: Weegee – “The Real Weegee” (1993)
Julius Born’s ‘Texan Portraits’: Cowboys, Immigrants and Animals
Photographer Julius Born took thousands of photographs of the people, land and community in Hemphill county located in the Texas panhandle. In thousands of portrait photographs taken during the first half of the twentieth century, Born forever documented Texas’ past, heritage, and humanity. In his images of cowboys and businessmen, well-composed ladies, and fidgety […]
Todd Hido: “Ohio” (2009)
From Ohio, 2009 By Doug Rickard The clouds are passing by gently… the pale blue sky smiles because it is summer again and the sun beams its warm rays down into your suburban backyard in the Midwest. You’re standing there looking at the white house next door and the curtains are closed. The dry weeds sting […]
Russian and Ukrainian Citizens are Terrorized in Donald Weber’s “INTERROGATIONS” (2012)
Are these “interrogations” real or is this just a graphic experiment meant to help us imagine the way that power is wielded behind closed doors? By Paul Loomis, August, 2012 Whether or Not the Guns are Loaded Interrogations is a collection of photographs taken in Russia and Ukraine over six years of travel by Donald […]
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: “Untitled, Circa 1960”
RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD (American, 1925-1972) Untitled, circa 1960 Gelatin silver, printed later 7-3/8 x 5 inches (18.7 x 12.7 cm) ASX CHANNEL: RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD
Diane Arbus MoMA Exhibition Wall Label Text (1972)
She was not a theorist but an artist. Her concern was not to buttress philosophical questions but to make pictures. By John Szarkowski, Director, Department of Photography, NY MoMA Diane Arbus’s pictures challenge the basic assumptions on which most documentary photography has been thought to rest, for they deal with private rather than social […]
