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 […]
Bill Owens – ‘Leisure’ – A Particular Kind of Strangeness (2005)
From the Working series By Gregory Crewdson A family of three carefully unfolds rolls of sod onto their barren front yard transforming it into a small domestic oasis. A man ascends a bare, undersized tree in an absurd attempt to prune its dead leaves. A young boy sits on his Big Wheel holding a toy […]
An Interview with Emmet Gowin (1998)
“I like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can’t know exactly what it is we are doing.” By John Caponigro, December 1998 – January 1999 Born in 1941, Emmet Gowin grew up in southern Virginia. He began photographing in 1961, at the Richmond Professional Institute, […]
JAN UNG: "Twyford School" (1978)
mailto:jan@janung.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twyford_School ASX CHANNEL: Jan Ung For more of American Suburb X, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. All images © copyright the photographer and/or publisher
Stylistic Trials and Documentary Tribulations in Richard Avedon’s ‘In the American West’ (1990)
In the American West is a complicated stew composed of various ingredients. While Avedon certainly addresses Western myths and refers to the artists who visualized them, his photographs also act as social commentary and as an affirmation of his own photographic style. Stylistic Trials and Documentary Tribulations in Richard Avedon’s In the American West […]
In Conversation with Julian Germain (2005)
“I wanted to photograph in the favellas but is was dangerous for me and actually for anyone I wanted to photograph. I met two Brazilian artists, Patricia Azevedo and Murilo Godoy. We decided to give cameras out and ask people (especially children) if they would like to take pictures themselves.” In Conversation: Julian Germain […]
ASX.TV: Graciela Iturbide – “Rencontres d’Arles Photographie” (2011)
Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Graciela Iturbide, Arles, 08 luglio 2011.
William Eggleston: Preface from Election Eve (1977)
On the eve of the election, when nothing had yet been decided, when everything–whatever that everything was–hung in the balance, Eggleston made an elegy…a statement of perfect calm. Preface from Election Eve By Lloyd Fonvielle William Eggleston made these photographs in and around Plains, Georgia –and along the route of his journey there from Mississippi–on […]
