David Schonauer
BLOUIN ARTINFO Wednesday August 22, 2012
In 1961, famed photographer and designer Willy Rizzo traveled to Brazil to photograph his ex-wife, actress Elsa Martinelli, during Carnival. Some 50 years later, the Italian artist is returning for
the exhibition “Willy Rizzo in Brazil” at MuBE, the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture in São Paulo (through September 2). The show features 100 of Rizzo’s images of virtually
every major celebrity from the past 70 years, from Salvador Dalí to Marilyn Monroe. “I observed them in their way of working and in their habits,” Rizzo tells Artinfo in an
exclusive interview. Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 4, 2015
Tomi Ungerer grew up in Alsace, during World War II, under the Nazi occupation of France. Even as a child he was a resister—a proverbial thorn in
the side of the fatted calf. He says that his teachers tried to brainwash him with pro-Führer propaganda, but to no avail. In an interview last year he said, "I was a Frenchman with my family, a … Read the full Story >>
COSMOPOLITAN Thursday February 2, 2023
As we noted recently, Ghislaine Maxwell, now serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking underage girls on behalf of her ex-partner, sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has claimed the infamous photograph of Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre was a fake. But photographer Mark Thomas, who copied the original photo, said in a recent interview with the Daily Mailhe can prove it is “not fake.” Giuffre has used the photograph as evidence to support her claims that she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew, notes Cosmopolitan.
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CBCNEWS Tuesday May 15, 2018
There has been talk in recent days of fakery employed by wildlife
photographers. As an antidote to the bad news, watch Anderson Cooper’s recent 60 Minutes interview with wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen, who once spent 42 days with cougars in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, while waiting for the perfect shot. Mangelsen notes that his shot of Grand Teton National Park's grizzly No. 399 proved problematic: Galleries were reluctant to display it
because the image showed the female bear’s teats. "We might be just a little too Puritan sometimes,” he says. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Thursday July 12, 2012
Jean Francois Leroy, director of the VISA Pour l’Image photojournalism festival, gives a typically candid interview to the British Journal of Photography about the lineup for this
year’s festival (September 3 to 9), the evolution of the market for photojournalism, and the absence from the festival of big photo agencies like Corbis, Magnum, and Noor. “They will tell
you they're not here to see young photographers. I find this revolting,” says Leroy. “When an agency uses this excuse, I want to tell them to stay home.” Must read. Read the full Story >>
The Art of the Title Friday July 19, 2013
For moviegoers who survive two hours of massive, nuclear-powered robots beating up on alien monsters from the bottom of the ocean, the sleek and statuesque main-on-end titles for director Guillermo
del Toro’s Pacific Rim are the calm after the creature-punchin’, bot-stompin’ storm, notes The Art of the Title, which features an interview with the sequence’s
creators, Miguel Lee and Ryan Summers of the production house Imaginary Forces. “After our first meeting, we had less than a week to present concepts to the studio,” recalls Lee. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday November 12, 2012
How Markus Klinko and Indrani create perfect celebrity icons ... Sigma unveils an affordable new 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM lens for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, and Sigma mounts ... New Cosmo editor in chief
Joanna Coles hires creative director Paul Solomons to bring back the arresting covers of Francesco Scavullo ... how the new FourMatch technology can identify photographic manipulation ... an interview
with … Read the full Story >>
Sound Advice Wednesday April 8, 2015
“Sound is an element we can’t work without. You can recover from some lost footage in an interview but you have nothing if you’re sound is missing,” notes DSLR Video Shooter, which spotlights a new workshop tour from MZed called Sound Advice. It's taught by Hollywood
supervising sound editor and designer Frank Sarafine—whose credits include blockbusters like Star Trek and The Hunt for Red October—and will cover everything from sound
recording and editing to sound inspiration in an all-day program designed for filmmakers, editors and aspiring sound engineers. Go
here for tour cities and dates. Read the full Story >>
Vimeo Wednesday June 22, 2016
Chicago-based photographer and filmmaker Andy Goodwin was recruited by the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law to help
promote awareness of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, a group of attorneys and students who work to
help free innocent people from prison. “With complete creative freedom, I chose six exonerated people to photograph and interview for a motion project,” says Goodwin, who is an MAP reader.
“The time I spent with each of these good people was incredibly moving and a powerful lesson in how our flawed system can so quickly imprison those without adequate defense.” Read the full Story >>
Christie’s Wednesday April 17, 2013
You have until Friday to see “Other Graces,” an exhibition at Christie’s New York Private Sales Gallery, featuring photographer Sante D’Orazio’s glamorous images of
models, celebrities, rock legends, and artists. The work on view—a mix of new photographs and well-known images that have been newly printed—spans D’Orazio’s 20-year career.
Christie’s also has a video about D’Orazio and his work, which is
noted for its forthright and timeless seductiveness, as well as an interview with the
photographer. Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Wednesday March 16, 2022
Hiram Maristany, the official photographer for the Young Lords, a storied Puerto Rican activist group that was active in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at age 76, reports Art News. Maristany turned his lens on the Nuyoricans living in New York’s East Harlem neighborhood, often called El Barrio by its residents. “It’s no accident that a lot of the images are of 111th Street. That’s the street that I was born and raised on,” the artist said in a video interview with the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2018. Read the full Story >>
DP Review Thursday January 6, 2022
In an interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun, a major newspaper in Japan, Canon CEO, President and Chairman, Fujio Mitarai, confirmed the EOS-1D X Mark III will be the company’s last flagship DSLR camera as the company continues its transition to mirrorless systems. “[T]he needs of the market are shifting to mirrorless cameras at an accelerating pace […] and we are moving more and more people to meet this trend,” Mitarai noted. The story of the EOS-1 SLR series started back in 1989 with the original EOS-1, notes DP Review. Read the full Story >>
PDN Tuesday March 12, 2019
Why does National Public Radio
need photographers? “We’re a media organization. That means we’re on the radio, but we function on many different platforms,” says Nicole Werbeck, NPR’s senior
supervising editor of visuals and engagement in an interview with PDN. “We’re digital. We’re on Apple News, Facebook, Twitter and Flipboard,” she adds. “We need visuals
for podcasts. We’re on smart speakers. We have a brand new product for the Alexa and Echo Show, where we’re taking the journalism from our hourly newscast, and putting visuals and video
with it.” Read the full Story >>
National Portrait Gallery Monday February 7, 2022
Photographer James Van Der Zee created an extraordinary chronicle of life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s and beyond, notes the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where the exhibition “James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem” remains on view through March 22. “For almost five decades, he was the photographer of Harlem,” said Diane Waggoner, a curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art tells BuzzFeed in a recent interview. Read the full Story >>
Wilmer Murillo Monday July 9, 2012
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1987, Wilmer Murillo notes that he grew up drawing and reading astronomy books. He studied graphic design and worked as a website designer but then determined that
his passion was illustration. Today his work, often featuring “whimsical characters in preposterous situations with pacific atmospheres,” has earned him a growing number of admirers who
follow his Flickr stream and lighthearted “doodling” Vimeo videos. In an interview with The Artfuls website, he describes his work as “fun drawings with a slight influence of pop surrealism.” Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Monday April 19, 2021
In 1979, photographer, filmmaker, and activist Joan E. Biren (also known as JEB) published Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, a groundbreaking book that, notes The New Yorker, “let lesbians see themselves” while providing “plain evidence of lesbians’ basic humanity.” Now, in a very different era, the book is being reissued. “I thought of myself absolutely as a propagandist,” Biren says. In an interview at Slate, Biren recalls publishing the book 42 years ago. “The hardest part was finding a printing press that would print these images,” she says. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Thursday April 12, 2012
Nearly a year after photojournalist Tim Hetherington’s death in Misrata, Libya, his mother talks to the Washington Post about her son, his work, and its legacy. “I didn’t
really worry. I didn’t because I don’t think we can do anything about it. Tim had chosen his path,” says Judith Hetherington. She adds, “When someone dies, they die
midsentence.” The work remains: The interview coincides with the first posthumous solo exhibition of Hetherington’s pictures, opening today at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. Read the full Story >>
STASH Friday March 4, 2016
London animation director and designer Daniel Binns (aka Mr. Binns) and Bristol studio director Arthur Cox have teamed to create a moving
short about post-natal depression, using what Stash calls “a complex palette and simplified character design to conjure a powerful mix of melancholy and hopefulness." Called Mike’s
Story, the short was made as part of a series interview-based films on the subject. The animation tenderly and efficiently brings the narrator’s story to life. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Monday November 17, 2014
What does porn look like in 2014? That’s the question to be considered next February when the new NYC Porn Film
Festival opens at Secret Project Robot in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, notes the Huffington
Post. The fest, billed as a DIY “exploration of sex, sexuality, gender identity and porn-economics,” has issued an open call for entries. What are the organizers looking for?
“Homemade films! Art films! Shorts! One-minute clips! Performances! Talks! Discussions! Ideas! Everything porno!” says programmer Simon Leahy in an interview. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday June 10, 2025
After World Press Photo suspended Nick Ut's credit for the iconic Vietnam War photo known as Napalm Girl, journalist around the world have reacted strongly. Three former chairs and jurors of the World
Press Photo Contest-James Colton, David Burnett and Maria Mann- wrote an open letter to World Press Photo opposing the organization's decision. The letter was signed onto by 400 other professional
photographers. … Read the full Story >>
