Interview with Thomas Kern: “A Drug Free Land” (2011)
Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California, 2003 Thomas Kern – Interview A DRUG FREE LAND By Christian Reister, 2011, originally published by Seconds2Real Q: Thomas, tell us a little about your photographic career. TK: I became fascinated by photography at an early age. At home, there was a camera, but it was rarely taken out of […]
The Garry Winogrand Problem (1988)
Shooting inordinate amounts of film, Winogrand charted a vast, freebooting odyssey through three-and-a-half decades of American culture. Garry Winogrand: . . . ‘I forgot what year when Robert Frank’s book came out. He was working pretty much around that time, ’55 or whenever it was. And there were photographs in there, particularly that […]
Stephen Gill – ‘A Series of Disappointments’ (2010)
Photographer Stephen Gill captures on film betting slips discarded in and around bookies in Hackney in north-east London. A Series of Disappointments. Photographs by Stephen Gill. Nobody, 2008. Cat# ZD389 ISBN-13: 978-0955657719
Joseph Rodriguez on Desperation, Being an ‘Outsider’ and Stories inside the Head (2011)
from East Side Stories @ Joseph Rodriguez “I never picked up a camera until I was 20, when I came out of Rikers Island for the first time.” By Aaron Adler for ASX, March, 2011 Joseph Rodriguez’s New York accent is thick, very thick. However, the Brooklyn born photographer is a citizen of the world, […]
ASX.TV: Peter Beste – “Vice TV – True Norweigan Black Metal”
We went to Norway to interview Gaahl, lead singer of the band Gorgoroth. Gaahl really believes in this whole ideology behind what he’s doing—he’s not just some rockstar fronting a band. The thing with Black Metal is, in Norway, everybody is exactly the same. There’s nothing to rebel against, because everybody’s really well off. It’s […]
ASX.TV: Paul Graham – “Pittsburgh” (2010)
Paul Graham’s work belongs to the tradition of social documentary photography. He developed an innovate artistic work whose view is directed uncompromisingly at social reality. For whitetube.de he speaks about one single series called PITTSBURGH which is exibited in a big show of Grahams work: ASX CHANNEL: PAUL GRAHAM
Bruce Gilden – “Haiti”
Bruce Gilden, Magnum photographer, talks about Haiti. Haiti. Photographs by Bruce Gilden. Text by Ian Thomson. Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1997. Cat# PK399 ISBN-10: 1899235558 ASX CHANNEL: Bruce Gilden
William Gedney Journal Entry – “Quoting Alfred Stieglitz” (1969)
Journal entry by William Gedney, 1969 There are two ways of looking at a thing. Either you feel that a thing must be perfect before you present it to the public, or you are willing to let it go out even knowing that it is not perfect, because you are striving for something even beyond […]