David Schonauer
ARTnews Wednesday November 11, 2015
You may not learn a great deal about photography from Art News’s recent interview with Richard Prince, but the short Q&A provides an array of odd and interesting details about the artist the
photo world loves to hate. For instance, he doesn’t vote.
“Who the f - - k cares?” he says. “Can you tell me who the president of France was when Gauguin was off in Tahiti painting his beautiful paintings?” Prince does confirm that he
got death threats over his new Instagram portraits, which, he notes, “hit a nerve.” Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday May 18, 2020
Architecture photographer Swee Oh. Fine-art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. Fashion and beauty photographer Bara Prasilova. Fashion and portrait photographer Celia D. Luna. Fine-art photographer
Clarissa Bonet. Portrait photographer Natalia Evelyn Bencicova. Fine-art photographer Chiara Zonca. These are the recipients of the second edition of the Hasselblad Heroines honors - a program that
aims "to encourage the next generation of female photographers to go against the … Read the full Story >>
artdaily Wednesday March 26, 2014
Colombia's Fernando Botero, whose paintings and sculptures of plump women have made him one of Latin America's most famous living artists, says he is "not obsessed" with fat women, reports ArtDaily.
The 81-year-old artist insisted in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo that his subjects are not fat: “What I paint are volumes,” he said. “When I paint a still life I also
paint with volume; if I paint an animal it is volumetric, a landscape as well" His wife, he added, weighs 55 kilos (121 pounds). Read the full Story >>
AnOther Monday March 12, 2018
In an interview with Time magazine in 2011, the celebrated street photographer Arlene Gottfried declared that her images were the
result of “a lifetime of wandering”, a phrase that now forms the title of an exhibition on view at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York through April 28. Cooney conceived the show in early 2017 and planned to spend the summer working on the exhibition with Gottfried, notes
AnOther. The project was postponed when Gottfried’s heath began to decline; she passed away in August, at age 66. Read the full Story >>
Pop Photo Monday September 19, 2022
“Atiba Jefferson is a legend in the world of skateboard photography (and skateboarding in general). With more than 25 years of experience behind the lens, his work has and continues to grace the covers and pages of nearly every major skateboard magazine known to humankind.” So notes Pop Photo in an interview with the photographer. His advice for young photographers: “Pay attention to those who are good at it and what they’re doing. And just love what you do. If photography is something that you don’t really love, it’s going to be a tough thing.” Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER Friday September 28, 2012
Once again, New York Mets fans face an autumn of woe, with their team missing the playoffs. But there is a bright spot: Met pitcher R.A. Dickey became a 20-game winner yesterday, making him perhaps
the most successful knuckleballer to play the game. Dickey is one of the subjects of a new documentary from Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg focusing on the small group of athletes who have thrown the
unpredictable, non-spinning pitch. As the directors tell Filmmaker, the doc is really the story “of a small handful of guys who persevere and overcome obstacles in order to pursue their
dreams.” Read the full Story >>
WBUR Monday August 26, 2019
Through December 15 at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is the exhibition “Viewpoints: Photographers from the Howard Greenberg Collection”
featuring 150 vintage 20th century images amassed over 35 years by the noted dealer. The work is divided into seven themes — Capturing Modernism;
Picturing the City; Conflicts and Crises; Bearing Witness; Fleeting Moments; Defining Portraits; and Music, Fashion, and Celebrity. Greenberg describes his fascination with the work in an interview
with radio station WBUR Read the full Story >>
Global Voices Wednesday April 17, 2024
Born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1980 Alexander Gronsky began working as a press photographer in 1998 and later moved on to personal documentary projects focusing on the contemporary Russian landscape. His photographs “look like the grand paintings of old masters, with people also becoming part of the landscape,” notes Global Voices, which has published a translation of an interview with the photographer from Russian-language Holod magazine. Gronsky discusses his recent series capturing Moscow during a time of war.
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FILMMAKER Wednesday June 18, 2014
And more on documentary filmmakers: Andrew Rossi’s damning film Ivory Tower details how the increasingly outrageous cost of a college education—spurred by the rise of administrative
salaries, lack of government support and the arms race for the best and brightest (and richest) students—is killing the American dream. In a wide-ranging interview, he tells Filmmaker that he
was surprised to find how college—notwithstanding its value as an engine of social mobility—still perpetuates inequality. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Monday June 26, 2017
South African photographer
Pieter Hugo shot to prominence in the mid-2000s, most notably with his 2007 series “The Hyena and Other Men,” which, he notes in an interview with AnOther, has been repeatedly
“appropriated” — for instance, in Beyonce’s “Girls” music video. “I never expected it to blow up like it did,” says Hugo, whose work is on view in a
massive solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg,
Germany through July 23. He says he has also learned about being pigeon holed as an African artist. Read the full Story >>
MailOnline Tuesday July 3, 2012
The 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death (August 5, 1962) is nearly upon us, so expect an avalanche of media tributes featuring work by the many photographers who famously
photographed the actress. And expect PPD to be reading them all, including the MailOnline’s recent interview with photographer Douglas Kirkland, whose 1961 photo session with Marilyn for
Life magazine may stand as the sexiest ever. “I was 27, but mentally like a 16 year old, alone with Marilyn,” says Kirkland. BTW, share your ideas about the best Marilyn
photography on our Facebook page. Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Thursday October 14, 2021
“My work seeks to replace false narratives with images of what is really happening to animals behind closed doors, giving people a glimpse into the places that are kept hidden from us.” So notes photographer Amy Jones, co-founder of Moving Animals, a project aimed at exposing animal abuse, in an interview with Digital Camera World. “Recently, as more photographers start to pick up their cameras to help tell animals’ stories, this kind of photography has taken form and structure through the classification of Animal Photojournalism,” adds Jones. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Monday November 14, 2016
Catherine Fordham’s short film Consommé focuses on a woman who has been sexually assaulted while walking
home one night. But over six minutes we see her transform from victim to attacker herself. “I wanted to make a film that wasn’t about a superhero, or a physically powerful woman, but just
an ordinary woman with a fire inside her. What strength is possible if we can tap into that power?” says Fordham in an interview at the Huffington Post. The film, which was recently seen at the
Nitehawk festival in NY, begins streaming today at the Shudder horror network. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Thursday December 15, 2022
The new film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, from director Laura Poitras, follows the life of photographer Nan Goldin and her work to bring down the billionaire Sackler dynasty, whose company, Purdue Pharma, fueled the opioid epidemic in America. The film, which won the Golden Lion prize at this year’s Venice film festival, is the starting point for a new interview with Goldin at The Guardian. “At least they are shamed,” Goldin says of the Sacklers, who are prominent art philanthropists.. “That was my first goal: to shame them.”
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FILMMAKER Monday March 25, 2013
On small-budget productions, coming up with locations can be a challenge—especially if you need something a bit unusual, notes Filmmaker, which features an interview with production designer
Riley Fearon about his work on a new music video for the band Run 8 Rider. The video, directed by Sean Meehan, required that a single location represent three different time periods. Fearon had to
make it all happen … with a budget of $300. “We actually came in under budget, which was good,” says Fearon. “I used a lot of family stuff from the attic and the basement of
the family.” Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Wednesday September 12, 2012
Syrian artist Jaber Al Azmeh began his series of red-and-black photographs during the early stages of the revolutionary movement in his country, notes the Huffington Post. For the project, titled
“Wounds,” Al Azmeh uses himself as a model to re-enact the stories told to him by friends active in protests against the regime of Bashar el-Assad. “We have been living in fear for
decades,” he says in a revealing interview. The work is on view through October 29 at the Green Art Gallery in Dubai. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Wednesday April 8, 2015
In January, Washington Post photojournalist Sarah Voisin traveled to Cuba to capture a culture that has managed to almost entirely frozen in time, notes the newspaper’s InSight photo blog, which
features Voisin’s images in a two-part series. Part one focuses on a particular event the photographer witnessed: the baptism of 25 Cuban children at Our Lady of Charity, a Roman Catholic church
in Havana. Part 2 includes a video interview with Voisin, who
reflects on how Cuba will change as relations with the US are normalized. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Tuesday March 31, 2015
In January, Washington Post photojournalist Sarah Voisin traveled to Cuba to capture a culture that has managed to remain almost entirely frozen in time, notes the newspaper’s InSight photo
blog, which features Voisin’s images in a two-part series. Part one focuses on a particular event the photographer witnessed: the baptism of 25 Cuban children at Our Lady of Charity, a Roman
Catholic church in Havana. Part 2 includes a video interview with
Voisin, who reflects on how Cuba will change as relations with the US are normalized. Read the full Story >>
BLOUIN ARTINFRO Monday March 5, 2012
There has never been a book about Cuba quite like Michael Dweck’s Habana Libre. The photographer, known best for his black-and-white images of surfers in Montauk, Long Island, gained
unprecedented access to the so-called "farandula"—the glamorous elite and creative classes of Cuba’s supposed classless society. (A recent opening of his work at the Fototeca Museum in
Cuba was attended by Alex Castro and Camilo Guevara, sons of Fidel and Che). Blouin ArtInfo gets the story of the project from Dweck himself. Read the full Story >>
A Photo Editor Wednesday April 24, 2013
“I’m always on the lookout for photographers who use social media to build an audience and then leverage that audience to success by selling them something or attracting commercial and
editorial clients who are interested in the audience,” writes Rob Haggart at A Photo Editor, who points to Michael Edwards as a good
example: Edwards has taken a tried-and-true formula (nearly naked women plus Tumblr), added his skills as a pro photog, and watched the result go viral. PDN has an interview with Edwards, who explains how he did it, and why. Read the full Story >>
