Interviews Archive
- Amy Stein - Stranded
- Davin — March 22nd, 2008
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Recently presented as part of SMoCA’s Car Culture exhibition, Amy Stein’s on-going Stranded series visualizes American social and political isolation. Stein’s extensive travels across the US to purposefully witness motorists stranded in America’s in-between spaces form a unique look at another middle America. I talked with Amy about Stranded and her motivations.
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- Robyn Cumming
- Davin — March 18th, 2008
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Toronto photographer Robyn Cumming was interviewed about her latest work, Little Legs by Heather Morton. I interviewed Cumming a couple of years ago about her series In Place and as Morton notes, it’s exciting to see where she has taken things in her current work.There is also a follow-up post discussing Cumming’s editorial/commercial work which is very timely given the amount of blog talk around the “fine art” photographers doing commercial work.
Morton is an independent art buyer, a misunderstood and to most people invisible profession and her new site already gives a different and interesting perspective — plus she’s also based in Toronto so there’s a further personal interest on the art buying decisions made by Canadian agencies and publications.
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- Magenta television
- Davin — February 27th, 2008
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Over the past few years, Toronto’s Magenta Foundation has fostered and promoted contemporary photography in Canada and around the world with their Flash Forward and Carte Blanche books and a successful print magazine.
Magenta has now launched a new website that’s a precursor to a broadcast television channel on photography arts. Magenta television launches with video features from: Robyn Cumming, Adrian Fish, Jamie Campbell, and Christopher LaMarca.
Here’s a peek at Robyn Cumming’s feature. MakingRoom featured Robyn’s In Place series in our first issue.
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- Greg Girard on CBC Arts
- Davin — December 15th, 2007
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There’s a nice narrated slideshow by Greg Girard on CBC.ca about the images from his Phantom Shanghai book. It’s a quick watch at just under 4 minutes but it does a great job of contextualizing the images. I’m actually long overdue in doing an interview with Girard having contacted him a few months ago when the Phantom Shanghai images were being exhibited at Toronto’s Monte Clark Gallery. - Posted in Books, Interviews, People, Video — Comment
- NY Arts - Jonathan Feinstein talks to Grant Willing
- Davin — December 12th, 2007
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The January-February 2008 issue of NY Arts Magazine has a conversation between Jon Feinstein (Curatorial Director of the Humble Arts Foundation) and Grant Willing (co-founder of Fjord).
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- 2Point8 - Joel Meyerowitz Part 2
- Davin — December 9th, 2007
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MIchael David Murphy has posted the second part of his interview with Joel Meyerowitz. He talks to Meyerowitz about his seminal book Bystander: A History of Street Photography and about the continued democratization of photography as a medium.
“It used to be 35mm, and now it’s digital. The camera’s the same, though - people pick it up and use it, like a fountain pen. Everybody writes something with it; a check, a story, a prescription. It’s writing. And photography’s the same - it’s democratic in that way. Everyone can use it, but not everyone makes art.” — Joel Meyerowitz
Check out the other discussions at 2Point8.
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- 2Point8 - Joel Meyerowitz
- Davin — December 3rd, 2007
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Michael David Murphy has posted the first part of an interview with Joel Meyerowitz on 2Point8. See some of Michael’s other discussions here.
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- Michael Schmelling
- Davin — December 1st, 2007
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Shane Lavalette has a great conversation with Michael Schmelling at his site. Shane talks with Michael about how he came to photography at an early age, what later lead him to El Paso, Texas and James Holloway who became the subject of his 2002 book Shut Up Truth, and his continuing fine art and editorial work. - Posted in Interviews, People, Websites — Comment
- A Conversation with Misty Keasler
- Davin — June 15th, 2007
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There’s a thoughtful interview with Misty Keasler over at Joerg Colberg’s Conscientious. Misty discusses the balance between fine art and reportage in her work and the even subtler debate between subjectivity and objectivity in photography.
Chronicle put out a beautiful book of Keasler’s Love Hotel photos last year.
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- How heroes are made.
- Davin — March 24th, 2007
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From Leica World 1/2005 - Joel Meyerowitz “I watch. That’s my life”:
Joel Meyerowitz: “Eggleston came to new York in 1969 or 1970 and someone sent him to me. He showed me a box of black and white photographs from the south. Mediocre photos, in my opinion, without tension, without energy. I then showed him approximately 500 coloured works. We sat together until the early morning. And when he left he murmured something like: “Colour photography, that’s it.” He then started to take pictures similar to the ones he had done before, only in colour. As a millionaire he could afford to have them printed. Szarkowski liked my work in colour. But he kept saying:” I need prints. I need something for the wall.” Only I did not have the money for prints. That’s how Eggleston became the pioneer of colour. But that’s what it’s like in photography.”
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