Mike Disfarmer: Disfarmer Rediscovered
Disfarmer Rediscovered By Michael P. Mattis, from the book Disfarmer, The Vintage Prints The legend of Mike Disfarmer has intrigued the photographic community for nearly thirty years. The bizarre story of a hermit-like Arkansas studio photographer named Mike Meyer legally changing his name to Disfarmer in order to disassociate him- self not only from his […]
ASX.TV: Martin Parr – “On Photography” (2012)
Brassai: Letters to My Parents (1998)
By Brassai, Excerpts from the intro to, Brassai: Letters to My Parents, 1998. I was delighted to notice in the letters that from the start I saw photography as a way to uncover and record the world that surrounded me, the city in which I lived, as comprehensively as possible. There were a good […]
An Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson – Famous Photographers Tell How (1958)
“For me, content cannot be separated from form. By form, I mean a rigorous geometrical organization of interplay of surfaces, lines and values.” Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson – Famous Photographers Tell How (1958) HCB: To me, photography is a simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of a significance of an event as […]
Bruce Gilden – “Coney Island – The Maquette” (2012)
William Eggleston – “Chromes Vol. 1 & 2” (2011)
Chromes. Photographs by William Eggleston. Steidl, 2011. Cat# ZE662 ISBN-13: 978-3869303116 ASX CHANNEL: WILLIAM EGGLESTON
Leon Levinstein – “Leon Levinstein’s Street Photography”
Interview with Jeff L. Rosenheim the curator of Leon Levinstein’s street photography exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Polish subtitles.
Ben Sloat Interviews Larry Sultan (2008)
“I’m not aware of rules. I’m sure they’re there, based on virtue of sensibility. I think sensibility imposes an organizing principle, a structure for how you work, but I don’t think I carry with me a set of…I guess rules is a pretty strict way of looking at it.” By Ben Sloat, 2008 Larry […]