David Schonauer
TIME LightBox Wednesday March 14, 2012
Erica McDonald started Develop Tube, a new video channel available on YouTube and Vimeo, as a resource for other photographers looking for guidance…and inspiration. The channel has thousands
of videos, from behind-the-scenes looks at the editing process to a discussion with photographer Stephen Shore about working with Andy Warhol and an interview with wounded war photographer Joao Silva
about “the biggest fight of the photographer.” Coming soon: Develop Photo, an accompanying website. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday September 30, 2013
Though he’s best known for his witty black-and-white photographs, Elliott Erwitt also shot color—mostly on Kodachrome, but also on Ektachrome. The work, which dates back to the 1950s
and was often made for commercial assignments, is now collected in the new book Elliott Erwitt’s Kolor (Te Neues). Typically, the images look at the world and find delightful absurdity,
notes the New York Times’s Lens blog, which features an interview with Erwitt … who is interrogated by his son, the photographer Misha Erwitt. Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Wednesday May 27, 2020
What might an art fair look
like in a socially distanced world? Photo London is sketching out that vision with plans to open in early October inside a tent at Gray’s Inn Gardens, one of the largest privately owned gardens
in London. “We have done some very aggressive modelling on the basis of only having 300 people in there, but it could be more,” says Photo
London’s co-founder Michael Benson in an interview with The Art Newspaper. Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Wednesday September 3, 2014
In the 1970s, photographer (and PPD reader) Meryl Meisler danced away at Studio 54 and other clubs; she also took remarkable pictures of the disco scene with a Graflex Norita camera. In the 1980s, she
began teaching art at a middle school in the down-and-out Bushwick area of Brooklyn, while also photographing the neighborhood. Her new book A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick, contrasts these eras and places, notes the New Yorker. The NY Times has an interview with Meisler. Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Wednesday October 22, 2014
To shoot or not to shoot? How close to a subject is too close? How far is too far? These are among the questions that documentary filmmakers ask themselves when they set out to record a true story. At
the recent Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, director Gordon Quinn celebrated the 20th anniversary of his seminal documentary Hoop
Dreams and led a master class in the ethics of doc filmmaking. “You owe your audience to tell the truth, to get to the bottom of the story, to be accurate in what you're presenting," he
tells Indiewire in an interview. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Tuesday April 7, 2020
While most film and television
productions have come to a halt, there are still news teams covering stories daily for those at home, and, notes NoFilmSchool, keeping a safe social distance for on-camera interviews during this
difficult time can be challenging. That makes K-Tek’s new boompole — a six-foot boompole that doubles as an extended handgrip — a logical choice
to record usable audio from a distance. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Monday September 22, 2014
It wouldn’t be entirely correct to say that photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has transitioned into documentary filmmaking; rather, he has combined the two mediums in a powerful way. His
latest film, The Boomer List, which airs on PBS tomorrow, is the
portraitist’s portrait of a generation that changed America. Like his previous docs on supermodels and African Americans, the film will be accompanied by a book featuring
his photos of the subjects he’s interviewed. The Huffington Post has an interview. Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Friday August 23, 2013
Stanley Kubrick, the man, remains largely unknowable to the public, but in an interview with Todd Gilchrist at the Verge, his third wife, Christiane, reveals what the late director was really like.
He was not the obsessed, phobia-addled fruitcake the press often made him out to be, she says, adding, however, that “he liked to struggle.” Speaking of The Shining and the various
interpretations attributed to it, she says simply, “He wanted to make “a good ghost film [that was] scary.” Mission accomplished. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday February 22, 2017
Early last week, The New York
Times’s Lens blog published an interview with Donald R. Winslow, the former
editor of the NPPA magazine Press Photographer, who took a provocative and pessimistic view of the state of photojournalism today. Later, Leslye Davis, a video journalist and photographer for The
Times, offered an alternative view of the future in a conversation with the blog’s James Estrin. “[T]here are more opportunities than ever before, especially for women, especially for
minorities,” said Davis. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Monday May 18, 2015
The Turtles’s 1967 hit “Happy Together” gets a moody makeover with the band Filter’s recent cover of the song. The music video for it, by director August Bradley, matches the
dark tone of the new version, notes NoFilmSchool, which gets the BTS story on how it was made with a Sony F5 and Zeiss CP2 lens. “I like to boil concepts down to their very core so that every
decision that comes up can be addressed by asking how does it serve that core idea,” Bradley says in an interview. Read the full Story >>
Film.com Thursday October 3, 2013
Whatever kind of film project you’re creating—from narrative shorts to feature-length documentaries—one of your most vital marketing tools is going to be a poster. Film.com
features an interview with graphic designer Alex Griendling, who cut his teeth at Intralink, a company that produced some of the most iconic posters of the 20th century. Griendling sheds light on how
the look for a blockbuster-film poster comes together ... insights you can use when you create a poster for your own film, whether or not it’s a blockbuster. Read the full Story >>
American Suburb X Monday April 16, 2012
The always interesting photo website American Suburb X has put up an interview with artist Richard Prince that took place way back in 1992 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It’s
interesting in the context of the Prince v. Cariou copyright case currently winding through the courts. Asked whether the act of appropriation involves risks, Prince says, “one of the reasons I
could give myself permission was that no one was looking. I didn’t even have the idea of an audience. I had no notions about showing the work.” Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Wednesday May 6, 2015
Produced and spearheaded by Salma Hayek, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet features work by an all-star lineup of animators to bring to life one of the most popular pieces of poetry in the world.
Each segment of the film is animated by a different filmmaker, including Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea) Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) and Bill Plympton
(Guide Dog). Indiewire has a new trailer for the film, which it calls “utterly gorgeous.” Go here for an interview
with Hayek about the project. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Monday December 23, 2019
After graduating from the Art
Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, September 1964, Gideon Lewin traveled to New York City to interview for a job with famed photographer Richard Avedon. It was the start of a 16-year
partnership chronicled in the new book Avedon – Behind the Scenes 1964-1980
(powerHouse), which AnOther praises as a “lavish monograph featuring intimate stories and behind-the-scenes photographs from some of the best moments in Avedon’s
career.” Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Wednesday February 12, 2014
A group of hackers has been busy downloading images of nude models and boudoir-photography clients directly from photographers’ websites, reports Fstoppers, which has an interview with
Indiana-based photog Eric Watson, one of those whose online files were breached. Watson says that about a month ago she received a huge spike in views on her Zenfolio hosted website. While some of the
hackers were using the images for personal pleasure, others aimed to blackmail the models. Read the full Story >>
KICKSTARTER Wednesday January 29, 2014
"I know first-hand how dancers spend a lot of time thinking about all the movement in between the poses that most people think of as dance. I set out to tell that story," says photographer
Jesús Chapa-Malacara in an interview with Mashable. A former dancer himself, Chapa-Malacara has created a remarkable series documenting dance as a language, each photograph
capturing one movement within the glossary of ballet moves from beginning to end. He is currently funding the work with an intriguing Kickstarter campaign. Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Thursday April 17, 2014
And on a day when we focus on the work of documentary filmmakers, we end by noting that among the winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes is work led by filmmaker Laura Poitras, who collaborated
with the Washington Post and the Guardian on their stories about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Poitras, notes Indiewire, was one of the first journalists to meet with Snowden in Hong Kong, where
she shot her video interview with him for the Guardian. Read the full Story >>
Amateur Photographer Friday November 30, 2012
Michael Woodford, the former Olympus CEO whose 2011 whistle-blowing about corporate mismanagement nearly brought down the company, has written a book about the scandal, which, he says,
“nearly killed me.” In an interview with Amateur Photographer, Woodford describes the strain on his life—from his wife’s anxiety and the near breakup of his marriage to fear of
being hunted down by Japanese organized crime. “We've got more than you would ever dream of getting in a Japanese scandal,” he says. Read the full Story >>
LensCulture Monday February 15, 2016
Freelance photographer Bryan Denton has spent most of his career photographing news in Afghanistan and the Middle East, and he recently talked with Laurence Cornet of media platform Blink about
his career and the evolution of journalism there. “It's really a pivotal time in this region's history, more so than at any other point in the few years I've been here,” he says. The
emphasis today, says Denton, is on “storytelling narratives that bridge photojournalism and fine art.” See the interview at Lens Culture. Read the full Story >>
The Los Angeles Times Wednesday June 19, 2013
“The sculptor Henry Moore, late in life after a long and successful career, said the following: ‘The secret in life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to,
something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.’ That quote resonates with my
sense of the frustrations and difficulties of street photography,” says Magnum’s Alex Webb, one of the modern masters of color photography, in a probing interview with the LA Times.
Must read. Read the full Story >>
