ASX.TV: A Conversation with Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography (Pt. 2)
Brad Feuerhelm of ASX interviews Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography. Pt. 2
Tag Archives: War Photography
ASX.TV: A Conversation with Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography (Pt. 1)
Brad Feuerhelm of ASX interviews Simon Baker – On Conflict, Time, and Photography.
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Robert D’Allesandro: “Glory”
“‘Glory’, the title of D’Alessandro’s 1973 book of photographs, is as understated and as charged as his pictures, each of which includes an American flag. Still timely more than three decades later, twenty-five of those pointedly black and white images remind us that, where the stars and stripes are concerned, ambivalence, irreverence and […]
Pictures from Hell, The Public Wants to Know – An Interview with Stanley Greene (2006)
Chechnya, November, 1995 @ Stanley Greene “We have reached the point where we want to satisfy the bloodlust of the public to the point that we no longer have respect for them. That’s where we’re at.” Stanley Greene At Visa pour l ‘Image,2006. Interwieved by Laetitia Martinez , recorded by Cedric Batifoulier, transcripted by […]
Interview with Don McCullin – “The Confession of a War Photographer” (2006)
Turkish woman, with her son, learning of the death of her husband killed by Greek militia, Gaziveren, Cyprus, 1964 “Peace is more elusive. It’s invisible and abstract as you said. As for war, it is in your face. You cannot see a dead person and walk around it as if it were not there. It’s there. […]
Sophie Ristelhueber: “Facts of Matter” (2011)
By Bruno Vandermeulen, Danny Veys, excerpt from Imaging History. Photography after the fact, 2011 The French artist Sophie Ristelhueber arrived in Kuwait seven months afater the war had ended, photographing aerial views and close-ups of the desert after the battle. The original title for this series, Fait, has a double meaning, translating both as “fact” – […]
The Archive of Modern Conflict (2012)
Concealed within a west London house is a huge archive, largely made up of vernacular photographs but also including all manner of other unexpected objects with stories behind them. Timothy Prus and Edwin Jones explain the origin of the collection and pick out some randomly selected examples to give an impression of the extraordinary range […]
Robert Farber with Eddie Adams
Robert Farber: I’m here in New York City with a great photographer, Eddie Adams. I first became familiar as many millions and millions of people did by Pulitzer Prize winning photograph that was taken in Vietnam of the Vietnamese Colonel executing a prisoner. That’s when I first started–how long did your career start before that? […]
SUSIE LINFIELD: An Excerpt from ‘The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence’ (2010)
Eddie Adams, Saigon Execution, Vietnam, 1968 A Little History of Photography Criticism; or, Why Do Photography Critics Hate Photography? (An excerpt from The Cruel Radiance, Photography and Political Violence) By Susie Linfield In 1846, Charles Baudelaire wrote a short essay called “What Is the Good of Criticism?” This is something that virtually every critic asks […]
Don McCullin – “Tate Interview” (2011)
Tateshots: Don McCullin is recognised as one of the most important living war photographers.
Modern Sublime: The World of Josef Koudelka (2003)
from Gypsies, 1975 @ Josef Koudelka and Magnum Photos “I am not interested in talking about things, explaining about the whys and the hows. I do not mind showing my images, but not so much my contact sheets. I mainly work from small test prints. I often look at them, sometimes for a long time. […]