David Schonauer
Salon Tuesday August 28, 2012
While we’re on the subject of sex and art: Salon features an interview with photographer Clayton Cubitt, whose fascinating new video series, “Hysterical Literature,” features
performers reading from texts (such as Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”) while having orgasms. The performers are seated at a table, under which, reveals Cubitt, an
assistant is equipped with … a massager. “I’ve long been fascinated with the concept of control and authenticity in portraiture, especially in these modern times of personal
branding,” says Cubitt. Read the full Story >>
Motionographer Thursday June 30, 2016
Beside’s Iceland’s ousting of England this week, the most
stunning thing about the Euro Cup 2016 soccer tournament may be the graphics that ESPN has been using in its broadcasts. Created by the Imaginary Forces studio, the package features jewel-toned
illustrations and bright paint strokes evoking host country France’s number-one symbol — the Eiffel Tower. Motionographer features a BTS look at the making of the graphics and an interview
with IF creative director Jeremy Cox. Read the full Story >>
Vulture Monday December 31, 2012
As we noted last week, New York mag’s culture blog has a interesting series focusing on the screenwriters behind many of 2012’s most acclaimed films, who describe which pivotal
sequences underwent the biggest transformations on their way from script to screen. One of the standouts in the series is an interview with Rian Johnson, writer and director of the time-travel
mind-bender Looper. Johnson breaks down the all-important scene “where we had to address—or choose not to address—all these questions about time travel.” Must
read. Read the full Story >>
Centre for Contemporary Photography Tuesday April 3, 2012
The Centre for Contemporary Photography’s quarterly publication FLASH has an interview with acclaimed photographer Amy Stein and Andy Adams, editor and publisher of Internet art space
FlakPhoto, over the pros and cons of publishing online. “The future will continue to be about personalisation and social sharing. And content, content, content,” says Stein. “I
don’t think of online vs. offline exhibition as very different at all, actually,” says Adams. It’s an intriguing discussion. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Monday December 27, 2021
If you use Indeed.com, beware of the latest photo-world scam, notes DIY Photography, citing the recent experience of Reddit user paraworldblue, who received emails giving “a very detailed description of a way too good to be true job with a well-known company.” The emails noted that the paraworldblue’s resume had been seen on Indeed. “I was initially fooled by that first one, out of hopeful desperation, so I replied to the email, answering all the many interview questions,” paraworldblue noted. Then, within six hours, a job offer arrived. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday November 19, 2021
We recently spotlighted writer Patricia Morrisroe’s interview with Annie Liebovitz in The New York Times, on the occasion of Leibovitz’s new book of fashion imagery, Wonderland. The photos of Leibovitz featured in the article were taken by Gillian Laub, whose series “Family Matters” is on view at the International Center of Photography through Jan. 10, 2022. In a followup article at The Times, Laub talks about what it was like to take pictures of a photographic legend of Leibovitz’s stature—a job, she admits, that came “wth a ton of nerves.” Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Thursday August 31, 2023
Several users of Adobe’s art-themed social media platform Behance have encountered an elaborate scam in recent weeks involving fraudulent job offerings from people claiming to be recruiters at autonomous driving tech company Waymo. The scam is a common fraud scheme that involves sending users a fake job confirmation following an “interview” on Skype and a check to begin purchasing office equipment, notes The Verge. After confirming the deposit to the scammers, the target is directed to send money to another person via Zelle.
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British Journal of Photography Thursday November 19, 2015
Christophe Gin has been awarded the Carmignac Foundation’s Photojournalism Award, reports the British Journal of Photography. Gin won a €50,000 grant for
“Colonie,” his series ruminating on concepts of lawlessness in French Guiana. Created in 2009, the award has sponsored photojournalism in conflict zones and neglected regions. “I
wanted to interrogate the notion of ‘law’ within this area of inner Guiana, outside the norms of the Republican mainland,” says Gin in an interview. Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER Tuesday May 7, 2013
The new Mississippi coming-of-age film Mud is charming audiences—and, notes the Hollywood Reporter, causing some critics to compare its director, Jeff Nichols, to a certain revered American filmmaker. “I don't think I'm doing what [Terrence] Malick's
doing," Nichols tells THR. Meanwhile, he talks to Filmmaker about the merits of living in Austin, TX, and making epic movies for audiences who watch on ever-smaller screens. “When I was young
and naïve,” he notes, “I had the idea that when you have a movie playing in theaters, there was some money involved.” Read the full Story >>
The Art of the Title Tuesday December 24, 2013
Before MAP signs off for Christmas, we thought we would pay tribute to the opening titles of one of our favorite Christmas movies—National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The Art
of the Title has an interview with animation director Bill Kroyer, who describes coming up with the ideas for titles after downing a few pitchers of beer with his staff, when a creative crisis was
averted after designer Ralph Eggleston said, “Let’s kill Santa!” MAP will be back on Thursday, when we’ll start looking back at filmmaking in 2013. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Tuesday June 21, 2016
In her series “Waste Not,” NYC-based photographer Aliza Eliazarov notes that $165 billion worth of food is wasted annually in
the US. Eliazarov underscores that statistic by photographing food salvaged from NYC dumpsters by food rescuers, or “freegans,” in the style of 17th-century still-life paintings.
“The project originated from a newspaper assignment I had in 2011 to document a freegan on a dive in front of a market in Harlem,” Eliazarov tells Feature Shoot in an interview. Read the full Story >>
AIPAD blog Tuesday February 4, 2014
Mike Davis, the newly appointed Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Photography at Syracuse University, has worked as a photo editor at some of the country’s leading newspapers and magazines,
as well as White House. In an interview with the APAD blog, Smith describes the essence of the job perfectly: “Editors exist equally in verbal and visual worlds. We have to be able to express
visual concepts in words, and whether that’s to word people or visual people, the effort involves getting people to understand things in ways they haven’t before.” Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Tuesday October 22, 2013
On October 29, the book Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits will be released by powerHouse, concurrent with the release of the documentary film Finding Vivian Maier, directed by Chicago
historian and collector John Maloof and Charlie Siskel. Both book and film delve deeply into the life of the former nanny and street photographer whose images electrified the art world when they were
discovered in 2007. But as Time’s LightBox blog notes, the more closely one looks at Maier’s life, the more enigmatic and mysterious she becomes. “It seems that Maier was an outsider
looking into the lives of others,” says Maloof in an interview with Elizabeth Avedon. Read the full Story >>
ICG MAGAZINE Friday January 4, 2013
Filmmaker Gus Van Sant seems to switch seamlessly between edgy, youth-oriented indies, like My Own Private Idaho and Drugstore Cowboy, and studio films such as Goodwill
Hunting and Finding Forrester. While other directors have pushed the envelope of new digital technology, Van Sant often takes older technologies and makes them his own, notes ICG mag. In
his latest film, Promised Land, starring Matt Damon, Van Sant teamed with cinematographer Linus Sandgren to emulate the look of large-format still Kodachromes from mid-20th Century
America. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Tuesday September 25, 2012
As the world has seen in recent days, filmmaking can be an act of hate that engenders violence. The works of Eran Riklis, on the other hand, create what Huffington Post blogger E. Nina Rothe
describes as “a need to do better, to think better, to be better.” The Israeli filmmaker’s latest effort, Zaytoun—about a friendship between a newly orphaned
Palestinian boy and a freshly captured Israeli air force pilot in 1982 Beirut—was named as a runner up for the Audience Choice Award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Friday September 15, 2017
Don’t feel like paying a
lot of money for one of the new iPhones? Take heart, you can get by with an older model: Time LightBox describes how Brazilian photographer Luisa
Dörr shot a series of cover images for its new issue — featuring profiles of 46 influential women who are changing the world — with a variety of iPhones, starting with an
iPhone 5 and continuing on with an iPhone 6, 6S Plus, and 7. In all, Dörr shot 12 covers featuring Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, and others. Go here for in interview with Dörr. Read the full Story >>
LEICA Tuesday November 25, 2014
Photographing the reality of Gaza today presents photographers with perplexing problems and invites new ways of seeing: In an interview at the Leica Camera Blog, Jerusalem-based Gianluca Panella talks
about his “Gaza Blackout” series, which won third place in the 2014 World Press Photo competition’s General News category. The work, showing almost total darkness, is unlike almost
any news photography you’ve seen. In fact, he says, no publication would have touched the images if they hadn’t won a prize. Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER IQ Monday August 19, 2013
“I loved scoring the Star Wars films, with all the fanfares and flourish. The galaxy far, far away—I feel like I’m still in it,” says composer John Williams in a
video interview at Filmmaker IQ. It was recently revealed that Williams would be scoring the new Star Wars movie, though he says he hasn’t yet seen a script. Then again, Williams says
he prefers not to read scripts or even hear about storylines. Instead, he likes to “wait for the moment of discovery” when he views the film itself. That way, he notes, he knows where to
put “the surprise buttons.” Read the full Story >>
Brain Pickings Wednesday January 2, 2013
In 2003, artist Joe Fig began interviewing famous painters about how, where, and why they do what they do. The result was Inside the Painter’s Studio—an anthology of 24
conversations with some of today’s most revered contemporary artists, including painter and photographer Chuck Close, who despite his paralyzing 1988 spinal artery collapse remains one of the
most prolific artists working today. In the interview, Close upholds the supremacy of discipline: “Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work,” he says.
We’re looking forward to getting to work in 2013. Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER Tuesday January 29, 2013
The Sundance premiere of Alexandra Pelosi’s documentary Fall To Grace had a political angle—and not only, notes Politico, because the director’s mother, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, was on
hand for the screening. The film (set to debut on HBO in March) traces the saga of former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, who resigned his position and announced his homosexuality in 2004.
Filmmaker talks with Pelosi, who has previously made docs focusing on the ascension of George W. Bush and the crash of the preacher Ted Haggard, about her fascination with rise-and-fall stories. Read the full Story >>
