David Schonauer
Vimeo Friday October 2, 2015
How can a music video director make a low-budget production stand out in the frothy torrent of visual media released everyday? Stash points to a new music video for the song for “Witch Doctor” by Dutch alt rockers De Staat as proof that it’s possible.
Created by Netherlands-based Studio Smack, the video features lead singer Torre Florim standing in the center of a throng of shirtless men, who
seem obey his thoughts like a mindless horde of zombies. “The effect is surprisingly exhilarating,” proclaims Motionographer, which has an interview with the filmmakers behind the video.
There’s also a behind-the-scenes video showing how it was made. Read the full Story >>
FotoVisura Wednesday January 8, 2014
“After three decades of the so-called war on drugs, not much has changed for many whose lives have been crossed by the narcotics trade in Colombia. Coca fields are continuously burnt and
destroyed and peasants are left with illusions and memories of what remained,” writes Colombian photographer Juan Orrantia of his
project “The Afterlife of Coca (and its) Dreams.” Orrantia’s intimate photos, shot in hamlets in the mountains of the northern coast of Colombia, depict the ambiguity felt by people
in the wake of the war on drugs. The project, he notes at FotoVisura, is also personal exploration of my own memories of growing up in Colombia’s most turbulent years. Go here for an interview with Orrantia. Read the full Story >>
Ian Spanier Tuesday October 14, 2014
Photographer Ian Spanier was at a cookout in New York, talking to a stranger who, he says, looked like he might work for the city’s Department of Sanitation but turned out to be a Homeland
Security officer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who'd been shot 12 times. “It made me recognize that in a world of faces buried in cell phones and iPads, we really don't take
the time to know our neighbors anymore,” says Spanier, who soon after launched a photo and video interview series called
“Right Next Door.” He’s photographed 26 subjects so far, including a Civil War re-enactor, a burlesque dancer, a jockey, and famed photographer Harry Benson. Spanier is now living in
LA and continuing the project, which will become a book and multimedia project. Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Wednesday December 30, 2015
Time magazine recently listed its choices of the best photography books of the year, as chosen by a group of editors, writers, curators and photographers, including Magnum’s Martin Parr. A avid
photo book collector, Parr noted that Brazilian publisher Editora Madalena “continues to publish great new books,” among them photographer Andre Penteado’s Cabanagem. Also
on the list is Alejandro Cartagena’s Before the War and Latin American Fotografia 2-winner Mariela Sancari’s Moises, which curator Susan Bright calls
“audacious” in its attempt to deal with repressed memories. Go
here to see our 2014 interview with Sancari. Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Wednesday October 23, 2024
Brianna Capozzi isn't immune to the more exasperating traits sometimes exhibited by sisters, noted the AnOther blog recently. "They steal your clothes," she observed in an interview. But for Capozzi,
an in-demand fashion and portrait photographer who has worked with celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Pamela Anderson, Dua Lipa and Chloe Sevigny, sisterhood is powerful. Her new monograph "Sisters,"
a documentary project six years in … Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Friday February 6, 2015
Lars Boering, the newly installed managing director of World Press Photo, wants the organization best known for its annual news-imagery
competition to evolve into an unparalleled think tank for photography. Boering, a former managing director of the Dutch Federation of Photographers and owner of the Lux photo gallery in Amsterdam,
disclosed his ideas for the future in a recent interview with Time LightBox editor Olivier Laurent. After recent controversies over digital manipulation of news pictures, the org needs to be more
outspoken, he says. “People expect us to have an opinion and to discuss and debate what’s going on, to be part of finding the solution for photographers and visual storytellers on issues
around the future of photography, censorship, freedom of speech,” Boering says. Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Wednesday September 24, 2014
The 31st Bienal de São Paulo opens this month in Ibirapuera Park, where the event has been held since its fourth edition in 1957. The
event runs through December 7. The Art Newspaper looks at the volatile history of the Bienal, which, when it was launched, was effectively the first large-scale exhibition of Modern art outside Europe
and North America. This year’s event, led by bienal veteran Charles Esche, has an overall budget of around $11 million, supported by the generous tax regime that Brazil has for corporate
sponsorship. There is also a list of ten exhibitions across the city
that visitors should not miss. Go here to watch an interview with Esche and other curators from this year’s event.
“I don’t think we need to once again announce that we’re going to reinvent the idea of the Bienal. We need to make a really good Bienal,” says Esche. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Thursday December 19, 2013
Allen Frame, known for gritty black and white photography inspired by film-noir and Italian Neorealism, was approached by New Directions for cover images for novels by the Chilean
writer Roberto Bolaño. The house began publishing Bolaño’s fiction and poetry in translation in 2003, and the work caught on like wildfire, according to publisher
Barbara Epler in a New Yorker online interview. She was
familiar with Frame’s book “Detour,” … Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 5, 2010
Wilson, the wildly anticipated new graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, has
arrived - and so has the artist. Out on a national book tour, he will be at the Strand Book Store
in New York tonight and at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend, then heads to the West Coast next week. The acclaimed author of Ghost World and … Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Friday February 1, 2019
In anticipation of the Lunar Year of the Pig, today's DART presents
photographs by subscriber Perry Hu. He wrote, “These piglets were raised my second cousin Wang Zhong. He began pig farming only a few years ago at his family home – also my mom’s
home village–in Luozhichong, Taojiang County, Hunan Province. I took the photo while visiting relatives there last spring. "My focus … Read the full Story >>
Illustration Friday Tuesday October 8, 2013
“As a child I had chronic asthma and would frequently be so ill that I could not leave the house for days or even weeks at a time. But all those times I spent locked up inside, I spent
filling up dozens of composition notebooks with all kinds of drawings,” says New York City-based illustrator (and DFLA reader) Raúl Colón. Born in the US, Colón grew up in
Caguas, Puerto Rico. Today he has more than 30 illustrated children’s books under his belt, including Dr. Jill Biden’s Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops. His newest book, due
out next spring from Harper Collins, is Abuelo. “It’s about the relationship between a grandson and his grandpa, who happens to be a gaucho living in Las Pampas,” he notes.
Illustration Friday has an interview with Colón. Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Friday January 3, 2025
As we noted recently, Suchir Balaji -- a former OpenAI employee who last year exposed the company's data scraping practices in an interview with The New York Times -- was found dead in his San
Francisco apartment on November 26. Police and the office of the chief medical examiner declared his death a suicide. But now Balaji's parents have questioned the circumstances of their … Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Tuesday January 7, 2020
Over the past 10 years, action cams have changed the game when it comes to sports videos: The small, wearable cameras have given athletes and filmmakers the ability to capture amazing tricks with
unique angles, noted the Vimeo blog in a recent post, which we highlight today, along with other filmmaking tutorials from around the internet. You'll also learn how to shoot an interview … Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Thursday August 23, 2012
The tech news in photography that has everyone talking today is not about pixels, but film: The Impossible Project—a group of ardent instant-film aficionados that has already revived various
lines of film for Polaroid cameras—has announced the creation of a new line of 8x10 instant film, reports PetaPixel. “While the 8-by-10 format was
never Polaroid’s most popular consumer product, the film’s appeal for professional photographers had always been clear,” notes the New York Times. “It could mean the promise of a remake or at least a close
approximation to many other instant films that analog image makers have been missing since Polaroid gave up making instant films,” hopes Pixiq. “It was another lucky accident,” says Impossible Project
founder Florian Kaps in an interview with the British Journal of Photography. Read the full Story >>
Women’s Wear Daily Monday March 18, 2013
A common thread runs through recent interviews with the famed fashion photographer, whose work is featured in a new book and exhibition: “William Klein was late for his interview at the
Howard Greenberg Gallery. Hours late. People fretted. Some shrugged,” noted David Gonzalez at the NY Times’s Lens blog. “William Klein is in no great hurry—that was painfully clear during a
90-minute wait Wednesday afternoon at Howard Greenberg’s,” wrote Rosemary Feitelberg at WWD. As curator David Campany writes in the intro to Klein’s new book, William Klein:
ABC (Abrams), the photographer “isn’t interested in purity,” or apparently in time. But perhaps that’s what makes his work so compelling. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Thursday August 12, 2021
The drawing practice of Daniel Clarke, a Paris-based artist from Southampton, New York, is brought to life in a new book from Steidl. Comprised of 66 color images of his mostly large-scale works in a mix of charcoal, watercolor and pastel, at times incorporating found paper and collage—together with an interview by photographer and filmmaker, Diana Michener—the book offers an intimate view of … Read the full Story >>
FILMMAKER Friday September 21, 2012
The new documentary film Radio Unnamable—which tells the story of Bob Fass, a late-night host on New York City’s WBAI-FM, and his role as a social and cultural hub during the
tumultuous 1960s—has garnered superb reviews for its directors, Paul Lovelace and Jessica Wolfson. “What's freshest about Radio Unnameable is how it links the birth of free-form
broadcasting with the zeitgeist of 1960s counterculture while remaining clear-eyed about the limitations, and mysteries, of both,” writes Bill Weber at Slant. The New York Times’s A.O. Scott admires the
filmmakers’ use of archival photographs and audiotape for their tribute to the “oasis of non-conformity” Fass put on the air. “The biggest challenge at the onset was how do we
make a film about radio visual,” says Lovelace in an interview with Filmmaker. Read the full Story >>
The Telegraph Wednesday March 11, 2015
Albert Maysles, who, with his brother, David, employed an American version of cinéma vérité in landmark documentary films like Grey Gardens and Gimme Shelter,
died Thursday night at his home in Manhattan at age 88. Maysles departed from documentary conventions by not interviewing his films’ subjects, notes the New York Times. “Making a film isn’t finding the answer
to a question; it’s trying to capture life as it is,” said the director in an interview. The Telegraph recently reprinted a short 2008 tribute from Martin Scorsese, who cites
Maysles’s “extraordinary keenness of perception.” The Criterion
Collection features photos of Maysles taken throughout his career. At Filmmaker, director Adam Bhala Lough offers his own memories of Mayles. Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Wednesday July 24, 2013
Today’s news about the controversial Rolling Stone cover shot of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: Gawker reports that RS editors actually wanted to put Kanye West on the cover of the Aug. 1 issue, but
switched to Tsarnaev after the “Yeezus” performer pulled out of an interview. Of more interest is the debate over why the cover caused such a widespread freak out. A number of media
outlets have analyzed the impact of the cover photo, including the New York Times—which wondered if July’s heat wave had a hand in
the hysteria—and Nat Geo, which called in Poynter Institute faculty member Kenny Irby and its own
photo editor Alice Gabriner to discuss the matter. Meanwhile, Time’s LightBox blog notes how imagery is now a coveted means of “branding” tragedy. Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Friday February 2, 2018
Photographer and photo educator Arthur Meyerson's latest book, titled "The Journey," is an autobiography told through art -- and the stories behind the work. The book brings together selected personal
projects and commissioned work from Meyerson's archive. Many of the images included have never before been published. There is also an interview with Meyerson by noted curator Anne Wilkes Tucker
covering both his photography … Read the full Story >>
