David Schonauer
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 >>
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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 >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday June 25, 2015
The best way to see the exhibition Albert Oehlen: Home
& Garden, at the New Museum, is (in my opinion) in reverse order. In other words, take in the nine painting on the fourth floor first, then get the “back
story” from the [mostly] earlier works on three. The large paintings upstairs bristle with an energy whose effect is to make the surfaces seem to be escaping their … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday November 8, 2018
With the Whitney Museum of American Art opening its new survey Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back on Monday, this week’s DART Artist Q&A features an interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in
June, 1977. Warhol’s famously laconic speaking style often failed in its attempt to present him as a dumb blond; see for … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday April 15, 2016
This just in from Aperture:Friday, April 15, 9pm - midnight Spring Party at Aperture
Gallery. DJ sets by Stefan Ruiz and Al-Veez. Live performance by EXP, the reverse-engineered K-pop phenomenon by I’m Making a Boy Band (Bora Kim, Karin Kuroda and
Samantha Y. Shao). 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info This just in from David Zwirner:Saturday, April 16, 5-7:30 pm The gallery is hosting a special … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Thursday October 15, 2020
The artistry of Milton Glaser (1929-2020) is surely key to the
mark he has left on our ways of looking at, and thinking about, the world we live in. In his seven decades behind a pencil, Milton looked and thought twice about more subjects than there is space here
to mention. As co-founder of Push Pin Studios, with his Cooper Union classmates, Seymour Chwast … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday November 2, 2007
Giant Robot, which has become something of a Japanese-pop-culture-art-reading-shopping-and-eating empire since the first issue of the magazine came out in
1994, celebrates its 50th issue this month. And an exhibition of art by regular contributors opens at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, this
weekend. The show features art by Adrian Tomine, Souther Salazar, Saelee Oh, Sashie Masakatsu, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday August 6, 2018
To celebrate what would have been Andy Warhol’s 90thbirthday, today's DART Q&A is extracted from the interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in
June, 1977. Advance tickets to Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, the
Whitney's full-on retrospective that will open November 12 [November 7 for members], just went on sale. For now, … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Monday July 2, 2012
How does a “resurgence of
interest” get underway? Take Herb Lubalin, for example. During the 1970s and ‘80s, Lubalin, who previously was part of the “mad men” decades in
advertising, formed a design consultancy through which he celebrated a vernacular approach to typography. You could say that his anti-Helvetic stance eliminated many design pitfalls that
might have sidetracked him in what seems … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday March 23, 2018
Who created movie glamour? You could say it was director Josef von Sternberg and his muse Marlene Dietrich, who fled Germany in the 1930s and brought the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic to
Hollywood, noted the AnOther blog recently. By the 1960s, classic Hollywood glamour photography -- luminous faces spotlighted against deep shadows -- had gone out of style. But in the 1970s and … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 2, 2013
Cindy Sherman’s work is currently on view in a major retrospective at the Walker Art Center, closing February
13th after having been seen at MoMA New York and MoMA San Francisco; it will open on March 17, 2013 at the Dallas Museum of Art. In addition, a show of early works from 1975-1977 continues at Centre de la photographie in Geneva through January 30. Her work is … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday May 22, 2013
Roger Ballen is a photographer who sees before he looks. Having been behind the lens for nearly 50 years, first as a youth, then as a dedicated amateur while working as a
geologist in the mineral extraction industry in South Africa, he has had decades to make the craft his own. A footloose New Yorker, he moved there permanently in 1982; he soon began
to photograph the different … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday September 4, 2017
What is it like to be 18 years old in Latin America? To look for answers to that question, Americas Quarterly magazine asked four reporters and four photographers to follow four young adults from
different countries over a period of eight weeks. The photographers - Cale Merage, Ulises Ruiz Bazurto, Salvador Melendez, and Nicolas Villaume (a former Latin American Fotografia competition winner)
- brought … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Friday July 10, 2015
In an interview with Sally Gall, for BOMB magazine, Emmet Gowin spoke about his understanding of photography as an extension of the artist’s being. “You
can’t be an artist and have your identity reside in only one thing. The thing that you master will become a stranger to you, and you will outlive it or you will need to live into something else.
You will always need … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday November 3, 2016
Don McCullin is one of the giants of photojournalism. The new book "Irreconcilable Truths" is an appropriately giant retrospective of his work. A limited edition, three-volume boxed set, the
publication from the Provocateur Press weighs nearly 53 pounds, totals 1,500 pages, and features more than 700 photographs, including McCullin's iconic work as well as previously unpublished images
reproduced from both vintage prints and new … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday August 15, 2025
Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy recently when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago. His
guest was an AI-created avatar of Joaquin Oliver, one of the 17 people killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. The former CNN … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday November 8, 2021
There's crime wave go on. Photographers have seemingly become a preferred target of robberies, sometimes involving violence. In January, a real estate photographer was robbed at gunpoint while
driving in San Francisco. In June a TV crew in Oakland was filming an interview for a story on a spike in crime when the journalists themselves became crime victims. And last month a San
Francisco-based … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday December 6, 2012
Was the crime murder, or photography? The New York Post’s publication of photos of a man being pushed to his death from a subway platform on Tuesday has brought widespread criticism and
launched a heated conversation that, as the NY Times notes, was summarized by the Today show’s Al Roker, who said simply, “Somebody’s taking that picture. Why aren’t
they helping this guy up?” Freelance photog R. Umar Abbasi defended his actions in an interview with the newspaper, saying, “If I had reached him in time, I would have pulled him up." Adweek reported on the “near-universal outrage” the images prompted
from “all corners of the Internet.” Poynter senior faculty member Kenny Irby says the outrage should be directed not at the photographer, but at the Post editors who chose to run the "most disturbing" pictures of the
incident. Meanwhile, Women's Wear
Daily notes that the Post editors aren't the first to publish unsettling images of violence—or the first to be condemned for doing so. Gawker polled a number of Pulizer Prize-winning photogs over
whether they would have taken the pictures. “I am a human first, and a photographer second,” said Bethany Swain, a member of the National Press Photographers Association board of
directors. “The journalistic value of these images was not worth this man's life. But there is more to the photographs than it would appear at first glance.” Read the full Story >>
