HIROMI TSUCHIDA: “Hiroshima” (1985)
Hiroshima City Hall, 1,000 meters from the hypocenter (1979) By Hiromi Tsuchida “In a cistern under a bridge were some mothers. One mother held on her head a baby that was burned all over, and another mother wept bitterly as her child suckled her badly burned breast. Children in the cistern cried out for their parents, […]
ASX.TV: William Klein – “Mode in France” (1985)
ASX.TV: David Goldblatt – “Masupatsela Series I” (2010)
An excerpt from the Masupatsela Series I (produced by Free Range Films) on David Goldblatt’s HIV and AIDS series. ASX CHANNEL: DAVID GOLDBLATT
Lewis Baltz – Notes on Recent Industrial Developments in Southern California (1974)
“Construction Detail, East Wall, Xerox, 1821 Dyer Road, Santa Ana,” 1974 from “The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California.” Gelatin silver print. (Lewis Baltz/Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne) When Baltz’s series “The Tract Houses” was exhibited at the International Museum of Photography in 1972, photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher purposely appeared in an […]
ASX.TV: Helmut Newton – “Jun Rope’ – ‘Cold Eye'” (1980)
ASX CHANNEL: Helmut Newton
An Interview with Bruce Gilden – Spontaneity, Elegance and Being Yourself
“But since I work in a spontaneous way, I have to be a little bit sneaky because I don’t want them to know that I’m going to take a picture of them.” Interview with Bruce Gilden, PBS, The Arts Show EGG: How do you describe yourself as a photographer? Bruce Gilden: I guess I’d be […]
Interview with Michael Schmelling (2007)
Untitled, New York, NY, 2005 (from “The Plan”) By Shane Lavalette, Big Red & Shiny, December 3, 2007 Shane Lavalette: How did you first discover photography and when did you realize it was the right medium for your ideas? Michael Schmelling: My parents have had an interest in photography, both as a hobby and as […]
Eighteen Color Photographers / Mitch Epstein, ‘Common Practice’ (1987)
Ybor City, Florida, 1983 from Recreation By Sally Eauclaire, “Eighteen Color Photographers/Mitch Epstein, Common Practice”, excerpt from American Independents, Abbeville Press, 1987 Mitch Epstein trusts in the power of enraptured perception. Navigating the American landscape, he intuits moments that seem blessed, harmonious, and eternal. Despite their evidence of a plastic-and-polyester society, his photographs of vacation sites such as Martha’s […]