Drew Friedman interview in Ink magazine (Spring 2012)
One of our favorite illustrators, Drew Friedman, is reviewed in this exceptionally fine magazine about comics called Ink, which is produced by students at New York’s School of Visual Arts
Category: Interviews
Emerging Talent – Meg Roussos
Take pictures. You aren’t going to create any cool pictures by just thinking about ideas. Go outside, talk to people and be a part of the community you live in. The best pictures you will produce are ones where you are just wandering around, explore something new, or assigning yourself to go shoot
Decision Makers : A Conversation with W.M.Hunt
in college I toed the line for a long time. I was in accounting class one day in business school, and I looked like a dog listening to music, tilting my head from side to side. I’m listening to the teacher but saying to myself I haven’t understood one thing this guy has said in what’s probably seven weeks now. I’ve copied other people’s homework religiously… and I have no idea what’s going on here. I hate this. And I left. And I enrolled in the theater department
Interview with Michael “Nick” Nichols
Easily by the time I get to an assignment I’m completely exhausted because of the money I had to raise, all the gear I had to put together, all the…this last one’s 50 boxes going to Tanzania, two years of fundraising, you know, literally almost 10 years of talking about lions, and then you, of course, your pictures have to start to live up to all the hype that you’ve…not hype…whatever you’ve done
A Conversation with Christian Patterson
Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood (also see the publisher’s website and my review) made it onto so many “best of 2011” lists that it was by far the most popular book last year. A body of amazing depth and sophistication, it is a shining example of what the contemporary photobook can do. There now is a second edition, and I used the occasion to talk with Christian about the book
Joel Meyerowitz: Icon with a Leica
Tony and I looked at each other and said, “That must be Henri Cartier-Bresson. Tony pushes me to go and see this guy and I walk over and ask him, “Are you Henri Cartier-Bresson?” He says, “No, no I am not. Are you the police?” I said, “No, no we are just two photographers and we saw you working and thought you must be mad.” He said, “Yes I am Cartier-Bresson. You meet me here later and I take you for coffee.”
Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot: An Interview with David Burnett, Part II
The one thing I think I would advise young photographers, in particular, is that in most cases no one can be as hard on you as you will be on yourself. Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don’t forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life
Prison Photography: An Interview with Pete Brook
Pete Brook, based in Portland, OR, is a freelance writer who focuses on the politics and social justice in photography. He writes about imagery produced within and about prisons on his own website Prison Photography. In 2011, Prison Photography was awarded a LIFE.com Photoblog Award and the British Journal of Photography recommended it among the Top Ten Best Photoblogs.
Just Make the Damn Picture: An Interview with David Burnett, Part I
You can still make a living, but in so many aspects of editorial and commercial photography, the world has seen a quantum shift. A few people are doing extremely well, in most cases people who have not only talent with a camera but the ability to create an aura about themselves using social media and blogs. I am constantly amazed at the number of “comments” I see on some of the popular photo blogs. Dozens, sometimes hundreds of comments from what must truly be a large population of people with true photographic interest. Proof, I suppose that the photograph isn’t the only way to connect with your audience.
Helmut Newton, the 1975 interview
Link: La Lettre de la Photographie
In 1975, while working as a young journalist at PHOTO magazine, I had the privilege of interviewing Helmut. He was recovering from a heart attack in New York that had turned his life upside down. The conversation lasted hours. June was there, and we can never overestimate the importance of the role she played in their Parisian apartment on Rue Abriot. Thirty years later, not a single word needs to be changed.
Also, galleries:
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6023/newton-100-masterpieces-part-1
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6024/newton-100-masterpieces-part-2
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6025/newton-100-masterpieces-part-3
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6026/newton-100-masterpieces-part-4
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6027/newton-100-masterpieces-part-5
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6028/newton-100-masterpieces-part-6
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6041/newton-100-masterpieces-part-7
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6042/newton-100-masterpieces-part-8
http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/6043/newton-100-masterpieces-part-9