Coney Island, Sneaking Pictures and Seeing Everything: Jem Cohen Interviews Leon Levinstein (1988)
“One thing I always try to do, if possible, is never to speak mildly or softly. I don’t think any photographer should. You should speak loud and clear. And that’s the way I try to take my pictures.” Jem Cohen: In the mid-1980s, when I first came to New York and lived with my […]
Weegee: “Naked City”
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David Hockney – “Pearblossom Highway”
Where do artists get their ideas? What is perspective? How can photography be like drawing or painting? David Hockney touches on these and other issues while discussing the making of his photographic collage Pearblossom Hwy in this video.
Carrie Mae Weems – “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried”
Combining text and photography, contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems explores the notion of a narrative within her work.
CARLO MOLLINO: POLAROIDS, ETC (1962-1973)
In a career that spanned more than four decades, Carlo Mollino designed buildings, homes, furniture, cars, aircraft. One of the most dashing figures of mid-century Italy, Mollino was famed for his design finesse and his elegant organicism. In 1949 he published an important book on photography: Message from the Darkroom. Sometime around 1960, he […]
Why Show It? A Conversation with Christopher Anderson (2012)
From ‘Son’ by Christopher Anderson “I’ve spent the last fifteen years with the title of ‘War photographer’, going to the other ends of the earth, to photographs stories of other people, looking for photographic intimacy from people that I didn’t know.” Why show it ? Interview with Christopher Anderson By Baptiste Lignel, December […]
Interview of Lise Sarfati by François Adragna (2012)
“One often wrongfully compares photographs to paintings. This is nonsense. The image does not refer to painting but to something alive through which passes silence…” Lise Sarfati ‘On Hollywood’. Interview by François Adragna François Adragna: What is a photographic series? Lise Sarfati: It is a set of photographs which are linked to each other […]
Dash Snow: “Polaroids”
Dash Snow originally started taking photos when he was a teenager. Using Polaroids as a diaristic record of the many ‘nights before’ he couldn’t remember, his snapshots piece together a fragmented portrait of Nihilistic existence. ASX CHANNEL: DASH SNOW (All rights reserved. Images @ the Estate of Dash Snow)