John Myers: Looking at the Overlooked Interview
“However hard I tried to ‘illustrate’ an aspect of the urban environment, to unmask and present how this sleepy, suburban environment ‘functioned’ and fitted together somehow it always failed”.
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One Wall a Web: An Interview with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
“I think I was working in places like those for quite a while before I knew why I was working in them. I don’t have a car or a driver’s license, so I navigated Virginia on my bicycle or on foot the majority of the time.”
Space, Furrowed with Abysses: Michael Ashkin’s Horizont
“The modern city engenders various pathologies, among them agoraphobia and claustrophobia – the one an intense anxiety felt in open spaces, the other, a panic brought about by confinement. Horizont channels both of these aberrations.”
Music, Creativity, and Complex Ecstasy: An Interview with Michael Schmelling
“You can look at it as music photography, of course, but it’s really about the creative act.”
Photobooks 2018: A Conversation + with Gabriela Cendoya-Bergareche
“The “focus” is very eclectic as are my tastes. They are always changing and have been enlarging these past years. The collection has been very contemporary-based from the start and that is still true”. -GCB
Settings of a Life: Mark Ruwedel’s Message from the Exterior
‘While Ruwedel’s concise framing draws attention to the resemblance between one house and the next, it also compels us to reflect on the singular defeats that they portray, each one a small chip out of the American dream.’
Long views that obscurely make radiant even what frightens us: Robert Adams, The New West
‘linoleum buckles on counter tops, and unseasoned lumber twists walls out of plumb before the first occupants arrive.’
Storehouse of Analogies: An Interview with Marton Perlaki
“I like to think of Elemer as a symbolic character in the series. His appearance instantly made me think of fragility. This is one of the reasons why I found him perfect for the series as the one and only human protagonist.”
Human Endeavour and Historical Process: The Landscape Photography of Mark Ruwedel
“My work in the landscape is ultimately about human culture, not about nature. I always think of landscape as historical, or historicized; as not existing outside of history.”
I’m Bored: Juergen Teller & Nicolas Ghesquière’s Season Three
“It’s Teller doing Teller, and he’s not even putting his back into it.”
Capitalism as a Bearer of the Uncanny: An Interview with Michael Ashkin
“In my opinion, the devastating confusion that capitalism wreaks upon the coherence of memory and history renders almost all imagery, and in particular, photography, as bearer of the uncanny.”
An Interview with Paul Gaffney
“That process of walking every day for long periods of time, you slow down, you start to really observe how your mind’s working, get a different sense of the connection between mind and body and your surroundings. It was a very physical process, and the pace was quite meditative, so I wanted to make a […]