James Agee & Walker Evans – “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” (2009)
University of Tennessee professor Paul Ashdown discusses the seminal work by James Agee & Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Ashdown tells how this book came about and how it eventually became an object of study for academics. He calls it a “one of a kind” work.
ASX.TV: Helen Levitt – “(1913-2009)”
In collaboration with Obit Magazine, Daylight Magazine presents this remembrance and celebration of photographer Helen Levitt.
Joel Meyerowitz On Frank, Winogrand and the Sixties (1987)
“I thought that to make photographs, you froze everybody before the fact, but Robert never froze them except in the camera. So that was a revelation.” Excerpt from “Still Going”, from Bystander: A History of Street Photography (2001) by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz CW: The name we are giving to this final chapter, “Still […]
ASX.TV: Richard Prince – “Richard Prince + Abbey Lee + Wardenclyffe”
ASX.TV: Cindy Sherman – “Doll Clothes” (1975)
An Interview with Arnold Newman
Arms Dealer Arnold Krupp By Alexis Anne Clements Alexis Clements: When you prepare for a photo shoot are you more methodical or spontaneous? Arnold Newman: Both of the above. Whenever I want to photograph someone, I read about them. I read biographies. If they are painters or scientists, I know their work. This […]
John Divola: Artificial Nature (2002)
Artificial Nature by John Divola Over twenty years ago I read an essay by Arthur C. Clarke that occasionally comes to mind. Clarke was speculating on the certainty that mankind would develop artificial intelligence, and that eventually such intelligence would have the ability to learn, move through the world, and act. It would not be […]
INTERVIEW: “Interview with Beaumont Newhall” (1965)
Beaumont Newhall at his home outside Albuquerque, 1974 by Bill Jay Interview with Beaumont Newhall Conducted by Joseph Trovato at the George Eastman House. January 23, 1965. JOSEPH TROVATO: This interview with Mr. Beaumont Newhall is taking place at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, January 23, 1965. Mr. Newhall, your name has been associated with […]