Henry Wessel: “Vista Del Mar” (1995)

Vista Del Mar, 1995 By Doug Rickard Palm trees, baking sunshine and the beckoning call of Vista Del Mar (1995). The Hollywood glitz is gone, the water has dried up and the baking cracks of a barren road call out to the viewer that hope and dreams are just a mirage. The blazing sun is […]

Andrew Bush – “Vector Portraits. Car Fetish.” (2010)

As part of the exhibition Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland presents works from the Vector Portraits series of Los Angeles-based artist Andrew Bush. The Vector Portraits are photographs of people in their cars that Andrew Bush took while driving side by side at 50 to 70 mph in […]

TATE MODERN: “Cruel and Tender” (2003)

Young Couple in Parked Open-Air Car, Ossining, New York 1932-34 By Carter Radcliff, Originally Published in Tate Magazine, Issue 5, 2003 In 1932, Walker Evans photographed a young couple in a roadster parked at the curb in a small town somewhere in America. The top is down, giving the photographer and his subjects direct views […]

ASX.TV: Anders Petersen – “Soho Projects” (2011)

Anders Petersen has been working in London’s Soho for several weeks, as part of his Soho Projects residency commissioned by The Photographers’ Gallery. Immersing himself in its bars, cafes, homes and hotels – creating a very personal portrait of one of city’s most vibrant areas. In this video Petersen talks about his time in London, […]

An Interview with Edward Hopper, June 17, 1959

Intermission, 1963 “I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.”   Interview with Edward Hopper, Conducted by John Morse, June 17, 1959 The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with […]

Jacob Holdt: “Not Born in the USA – A Vagabond’s Views” (1986)

He had tea in the garden of a Mrs. Pabst, wife of a multimillionaire brewer. When Holdt showed her the photographs he had been taking in his travels, Mrs. Pabst would shriek, “I hate these lazy animals. Why don’t they get jobs?” Not born in the USA – A Vagabond’s Views By Jon Vankin, The […]

ASX.TV: The New School – “The Photographic Universe” (2011)

“Photography/Architecture/Site” – Walter Benn Michaels with James Welling “The Printed Picture” – Richard Benson with Frank Cost “The Role of Photography” – Charlotte Cotton with David Reinfurt Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons | http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/amt The Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design, the Aperture […]

INTERVIEW: “Interview with Judy Dater” (2000)

Self-Portrait & Rain, 1982   “But I know for me -– when I’m photographing people -– male or female -– nude or clothed -– the thing that I’m most interested in when I pick somebody to photograph is the -– I don’t know, the energy that they have.”     Interview with Judy Dater Conducted […]