David Schonauer
ShutterLove Monday June 10, 2013
Over the course of his career, portrait photographer and Sony Artisan of Imagery Brian Smith has progressed from shooting high school sports for a local newspaper to photographing celebrities for
major magazines such as GQ, Rolling Stone, Time, and Sports Illustrated, notes ShutterLove. Last year, Smith collected his portrait wisdom in a book, Secrets of Great Portrait Photography:
Photographs of the Famous and the Infamous (go here for
PPD’s interview with Smith). Now he boils it all down to five essential tips. Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Wednesday April 9, 2014
More and more professional photographers are experimenting with ways to use mobile photography as a creative and journalistic tool, but Redux photographer Mark Peterson has already taken it to highly
sophisticated and effective level in his “Politics in Black and White” series. “Instagram was a perfect platform for how I
am manipulating the images in this series. I hadn’t shot black and white in years, but rediscovered it again through the apps,” Peterson tells Time LightBox in an interview. Read the full Story >>
The Daily Beast Tuesday September 10, 2013
Speaking of docs: In his film Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim raised provocative questions about the efficacy of charter schools and whether public school teachers should earn tenure.
In his new film, Teach, Davis, known for creating Al Gore’s magnum opus An Inconvenient Truth, profiles four public school teachers as they struggle to figure out how exactly to
make each one of their students succeed. “I was really interested in how teachers become great teachers,” he tells the Daily Beast in an interview. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday March 26, 2012
In 1938, Cris Alexander fled the dull confines of Tulsa, Oklahoma and headed for the bright lights of New York City, where he hoped to become an actor. Accompanying him was a high school classmate,
Tony Randall. While Randall became a star, Alexander became a photographer, shooting the likes of Martha Graham and Vivien Leigh and working for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. He
also shot the pictures for the best-selling 1961 movie-biz satire “Little Me.” Alexander’s obit in the Times is brilliant. Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER Monday February 4, 2013
At 20 years of age, Charlie Collier of Zapamation may be a young filmmaker, but he’s already got almost eight years of impressive stop-motion experience behind him, having launched a
freelance career after high school. Collier, who has created animations for clients in South Korea, a band in Slovenia, and for Boinx software (the makers of iStopMotion), goes behind the scenes in an
interview with Filmmaker, describing the tricks and tools of his trade, from his early days with Lego sets to his current work with Canon’s 7D. Read the full Story >>
La Lettre De La Photographie Wednesday May 30, 2012
Today’s La Lettre de la Photographie features a fascinating conversation between renowned photographer Lawrence Schiller and Elizabeth Avedon. Subject: Schiller’s new book Marilyn
& Me: A Memoir in Words & Photographs and the famous nude images of Monroe that he made 50 years ago on the set of the film Something’s Got to Give. “I learned very
quickly that Marilyn knew more about photography than I did,” he says. “She’d been run over by so many trucks in her life and survived them.” Must read. Read the full Story >>
NBC News Wednesday April 25, 2018
Transgender women are simply
women. That’s the idea photographer Pilar Vergara wants to get across in her new book Female (Daylight).
“Female captures transgender women as they are — not as photographers often depict them," says Vergara in an interview with NBC. “There is a certain artificiality in most
photography of transgender women, enhanced by studio lighting and bold colors.” Based in New York City, Vergara rose to prominence as a human rights photographer in Chile during the dictatorship
of Augusto Pinochet. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday March 14, 2019
Andy Warhol with his
dachshund Archie in 1973. © Jack Mitchell, courtesy The Whitney Museum of American Art. With the Whitney Museum of American Art closing its survey Andy Warhol—From A to B
and Back at the end of the month, this week’s DART Interview features a Q&A Glenn
O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, … Read the full Story >>
The Filmmaker’s Process Tuesday October 25, 2016
Over a 15-year career, film editor Zack Arnold has worked on independent features, web series, and network TV shows like Burn Notice and Empire. He's also
the founder of Fitness in Post, a site that details what he's learned
while working to reclaim his health after dealing with creative burnout and near suicidal depression. “I distinctly remember the night when I was sitting on the client couch in my edit suite
around midnight thinking, ‘I just can’t do this anymore,’ he says in an interview with the Filmmaker’s Process. Read the full Story >>
News Shooter Thursday April 9, 2015
Redrock Micro’s One Man Crew motorized curved slider was a big hit with indie documentary filmmakers because, notes News Shooter, it brought big-time production value to everyday, low-budget
interview sessions by moving back and forth during the shoot in an arced path that maintained distance focus. Now the device has been given a major update including remote control via a new app and a much quieter motor. NoFilmSchool has more. Read the full Story >>
PHOTOSHELTER Thursday March 31, 2016
Natalie Brasington is a successful New York-based advertising and entertainment photographer who shoots for Comedy Central,
Pantene, and Rolling Stone, among other clients, and she says her minimum fee is ... zero. In an interview at PhotoShelter’s blog, she talks about her approach to pricing and the importance of
“knowing what your end game is.” Says Brasington: “I have a sense of where I want my career to go and what kind of pictures I’d like to be well-paid to take. I have a sort of
‘dress for the job you want’ mindset when deciding what jobs to take.” Read the full Story >>
Gaby Messina Wednesday February 10, 2016
Born in Buenos Aires in 1971, Gaby Messina was selected by Aperture Magazine as an outstanding Latin American photographer in 2006. Her work has been exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography
and other venues around the world, and she has received a number of awards — including a spot among the winners of the 2015 Pictures of the Year International Latin America contest. “I
like to ‘gossip’ and record other people's lives,” she told Fototazo
in an interview last year. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday July 31, 2015
This week the New York Times has been running a dramatic multimedia series on the
lawlessness of the sea, including an article called “‘Sea Slaves': The
Human Misery that Feeds Pets and Livestock,” which details the stories of fishermen who have fled forced labor. It was photographed by Adam Dean, who describes what it was like to work on
the story in an interview with the Times’s Lens blog. “This was the first time I’d worked on a deeply investigative piece with a reporter,” he says. Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Friday November 15, 2013
The GoPro is now the world's best-selling camera according to the NPD Group and GoPro's internal sales data. The waterproof, mountable device, which can shoot video and stills, and has rapidly
become the go-to tool for adrenaline sports fans, notes the Verge, which features a 60 Minutes interview with GoPro CEO Nick Woodman. Central to camera’s appeal is the ability it gives
users to shoot POV imagery while skydiving, mountain biking, and surfing—and let’s not forget how handily it attaches to drones! Read the full Story >>
Veterans Video History Contest Friday May 6, 2016
Submissions are being accepted from high school students in the American Veterans Center's third annual Veterans Video History Contest. The contest seeks to preserve veterans' stories from across
generations through student-created video interviews and video essays. Rules: Students aged 13 to 18 should should conduct an interview lasting thirty minutes or longer with a veteran in their
community, then create a three- to five-minute video essay telling that veteran's story. Prizes include a trip to Washington, D.C., notes Videomaker. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Tuesday December 15, 2015
Italian photographer Riccardo Bononi’s series “Las Valkyrias de Bolivia” focuses on a group of women farmers who come to the capital city of La Paz to wrestle — a moneymaking
sideline that enables them to raise their children, often single handed. “In Bolivia, which has the highest rate of working women in Latin America, the idea of a woman is hardly ever associated
with that of the ‘weaker sex,’” he tells the British Journal of Photography in an interview about how he gets close to his subjects. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Wednesday May 29, 2019
Photographer Harley
Weir’s new book FATHER is an exploration and celebration of the male body through portraits,
nudes, still lifes, color-washed prints and full-body monograms. The result is a study of desire, notes AnOther, which features an interview with Weir. “It’s hard to know what you fully
desire as a woman when almost everything sexual you have seen was made by a man,” she says. “I always wanted to make the kind of things that I found sexy so I could feel that desire was
mine too.” Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER Thursday April 27, 2017
“[W]hen you take a
photo, you wait for the moment to happen. With film, you set-up the moment you want to happen. Lighting becomes a massive task where you need to have a vast amount of knowledge about building light
and blocking light to set the tone for the scene.” So says Sherry McCracken, DP of the American Gothic television series, in an interview with Filmmaker. McCracken discusses moving from
photography to cinematography, what she’d do differently in her career, and how lighter cameras make it possible for more women to work as cinematographers. Read the full Story >>
THE CUT Friday January 18, 2013
“It's a real wrestling match always [having to] work and make a living in one of, quite possibly, the most self-absorbed industries in the world,” says noted fashion photographer Norman
Jean Roy in an interview with the Cut. He covers a lot of territory in his revealing discussion, from the relationship between photogs and their subjects to his preference for film over digital.
“When you shoot film, you don't have the luxury of seeing every single image coming out. And because of that, you stay very focused,” he says. Must read. Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Thursday June 4, 2015
Magnum Photos, the agency that nurtured well-established photographers such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, is looking to regain its prestige and banking on the large consumer market to
expand its brand, notes Time LightBox, which has an interview with Magnum CEO David Kogan. He describes the agency’s new marketing platform, which will involve an annual subscription fee and
will offer consumers access to Magnum’s photographers and to exclusive content such as workshops and signed books. Read the full Story >>
