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Autoweek Monday February 7, 2022
Jesse Alexander, an American motorsports photographer who covered Formula 1 and various open road races in the 1950s, died on December 15, 2021 in Santa Barbara, California, notes Autoweek. He was 92. “As a kid my stepfather gave me a camera,” Alexander said in a 2016 interview. “My dad was an avid maker of home movies and, watching that self-expression, photography naturally became a way for me to express my own creativity. And I’ve always loved cars.” Read the full Story >>
YouTube Thursday September 27, 2012
An interview that director Francis Ford Coppola did with Merv Griffin in 1979 is the starting point for a thoughtful New Yorker essay by Richard Brody about the moral
obligation to make films that affect people, as well as the state of studio financing today, the modern absence of films for adults, and the “tragic” consequences that occur when a
filmmaker like Coppola falls short of achieving his audacious goals. Must read. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Tuesday October 23, 2018
Ara Guler, a Turkish
photographer and Magnum Photos member who was best known for capturing poignant and nostalgic images of a bygone Istanbul but who also portrayed famous figures and everyday life in far-flung lands,
died on Oct. 17 in the city he lovingly chronicled, notes The New York Times. He was 90. His pictures reflected the shadows and sparkle of Istanbul, a
city he once described in an interview as a sort of “Madwoman of Chaillot” who had grown old but never neglectful of how she looked. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Tuesday February 16, 2016
In the 1970s photographer Jonathan Becker moved to Paris, where he apprenticed for Brassaï and began shooting party pictures for Women’s Wear Daily. Then he returned to his native New York
to shoot for Interview magazine, while moonlighting as a taxi driver. (Andy Warhol, he says, never tipped.) He later started what would be a 30-year association with Vanity Fair. Now, notes AnOther,
his work is on view at SCAD FASH." Atlantic, in the exhibition "A Fashionable Mind: Photographs by Jonathan Becker. Read the full Story >>
Creative Boom Monday December 8, 2014
They’re something like an impressionist painting—a Monet, perhaps. Or, notes Creative Boom, they might remind you of Millais's “Ophelia.” But Susanna Majuri’s
“Underworlds” series is strictly photographic. The Finnish artist photographs female models immersed in watery environments, resulting in images that are romantic, mythical, and undeniably
beautiful. “The water is the most remarkable. It carries bodies. Water is color,” she says. Go here for an interview with Majuri. Read the full Story >>
A Photo Editor Monday November 24, 2014
“I think I am like all creative people. I always second-guess myself. I will work on a project and think it’s going nowhere,” says photographer Tom Hussey in an interview at A Photo Editor, which has a new series about the personal projects of photographers. Hussey’s is an intimate look at the
high-school football team his stepsons play on. “I usually always find one or two strong images for my portfolio. I also use my blog as sort of a working laboratory for a place to get images out
there,” he says of his personal work. Read the full Story >>
Motionographer Friday August 12, 2016
Three illustrator/animators, Henrique Barone, Rafael Mayani and Conor Whelan,teamed together to created Olympia, a personal project that Motionographer rightfully calls a “stylized yet elegant
tribute” to the Olympic games “that is sure to inspire both beginners and experts alike.” Says Mayani in an interview: “Initially we thought about doing five non-related
animated loops, but soon we felt the five sports could be connected and it started to look like we could actually do a nice little video.” Read the full Story >>
Mashable Thursday March 13, 2014
If you’re a Vine user, you've probably seen Dylan Blau's work, notes Mashable, which features an interview with the 20-year-old animator.
Blau is known for making extraordinary CGI-free Vine videos with basic materials like clay and paper. “I storyboard by sketching out my ideas on small squares that represent each frame. But I
have Vined without planning before, which surprisingly worked out well,” Blau says of his creative process. “The six-second rule forces me to think outside the box.” Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday July 21, 2023
Paper Magazine made its debut in June 1984 and with its mix of bubbly enthusiasm and Gen-X skepticism went on to become the scrappy kid sibling to the Village Voice and Interview magazine, notes The New York Times, which looks back at the history of the publication. “There was downtown and there was uptown. One never went uptown — maybe to the Met. And Paper was the first to kind of start mixing that up,” notes photographer Todd Eberle. Now Paper has a new owner and an uncertain future, adds The Times.
Read the full Story >>
Nerve Thursday June 27, 2013
The artistic duo known as Constance and Eric have photographed nearly 140 people having sex, creating abstract images with an authenticity often missing from more realistic erotic photography,
notes Flavorwire. “We had the idea that if you strip out a majority of recognizable
features, you could really get to the universal core of sexuality,” say Eric in a Nerve interview. “A hand on your lover’s back is the same no matter the shape, age, size, color, or
sexual orientation. It’s one of the few things that connects us all as humans.” Read the full Story >>
Short of the Week Thursday July 26, 2018
Andrew Allen founded the Short
of the Week website after releasing his own short film and realizing that exposure on the internet was as valuable as exposure at film festivals. And over the past year he has collected insights and
advice from other filmmakers on best practices for getting work out there. The result is “Be Everywhere at Once: The Ultimate Guide to Festivals, Online, and Your Short Film Release.” For
emerging filmmakers, exposure is more valuable than money, he tells NoFilmSchool in an interview. Read the full Story >>
Salon Friday February 27, 2015
The acclaimed avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy has collaborated with filmmaker Johan Grimonprez on a video inspired by his new book
Satin Island, and the results are hypnotic, notes Salon. The novel follows a “corporate
anthropologist” who, while compiling a sprawling ethnographic document, becomes fascinated by the story of a fatal parachuting accident. In an interview, McCarthy says he didn’t want to
simply make a trailer for the book, but to adapt a short passage from it. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Wednesday December 30, 2015
Veteran Reuters photojournalist Yannis Behrakis has covered stories all over the world. This year, he covered a number of big news stories in his homeland, Greece, which faced political and economic
crisis, even as it became the landing point for hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing to Europe. The Guardian newspaper recently named Behrakis its Photographer of the Year, and the Huffington
Post features an interview with the photographer about his most memorable work of 2015. Read the full Story >>
BLOUIN ARTINFO Monday February 10, 2014
The charming Alice Sachs Zimet has always been something of an innovator, notes Artinfo: As the director of Chase Manhattan’s cultural affairs marketing group in the 1980s and ’90s, she
practically invented a now ubiquitous corporate role. At a time when photography was not fully established as a collectable, Zimet dove in and helped shape the market. “One reason I
gravitated toward photography is because of the small community of galleries and artists,” she in an interview. Read the full Story >>
TIME LightBox Thursday September 27, 2012
Photographers don’t often reveal the “process” behind their images. They either keep their reworked sketches, videos, and book maquettes entirely to themselves, or share them with
a close circle of trusted friends. Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg is doing it differently, posting his works in progress online for the world to see … and react to. He explains why in an
interview at Time’s LightBox blog: For Goldberg, the very act of sharing this unfinished material is an important and formative part of the final product. Read the full Story >>
PBS Wednesday August 16, 2017
Photos have played an
important role in the first months of the Trump presidency — but not necessarily those taken by his official White House photographer, Shealah Craighead, notes the PBS Newshour in an interview
with the photojournalist: Craighead and her staff have released far fewer photos to the White House Flickr account or other social media than her predecessor Pete Souza, who had intimate access to
Barack Obama. The job, she says, is about “getting to know your client, as much as they’re getting to know you as a photographer and a person.” Read the full Story >>
PDN Friday November 21, 2014
As a photographer, you may know all too well the hurdles that have to be jumped to succeed as a pro. But you’ll have another view of the industry when you read PDN reporter Amy Wolff’s
interview with Julian Richards, who, after 20 years as a successful photographer’s rep, recently decided to close his agency. “Digital changed the landscape,” Richards says.
“The photographer’s role as sorcerer and custodian of the vision was diminished.” Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Friday April 29, 2016
The documentary Robert Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, which debuted this month on HBO,
provided an intimate and intelligent portrait of an artist whose work sparked a cultural war in America. “He always said, look at the picture, It’s not about the fist fucking or the golden
shower or the whip. Look at the composition and look at the work,” says Fenton Bailey in an interview at the British Journal of Photography. Fenton and co-director Randy Barbato reveal how they
captured Mapplethorpe’s “fierce creativity.” Read the full Story >>
Short of the Week Friday January 29, 2016
Creating fan films comes with the pressure of building a story in an established and heavily scrutinized universe. And when it’s the universe of Star Wars, the pressures are compounded,
notes Short of the Week, which spotlights director Joe Sill’s short film Kara, about an X-wing pilot who must transport a girl with mysterious powers to an underground rebel base. The
film, shot in sand dunes near Yuma, AZ, comes complete with action and impressive FX. Go here for
an interview with Sill. Read the full Story >>
CINEMA 5D Friday June 17, 2016
On Wednesday we noted that photographer Keith Loutit’s new time-lapse tour of Singapore, The Lion City II - Majulah, had become an internet sensation. Now you can find out more about
how Loutit created the time lapse in an interview at Cinema 5D. Interestingly, Loutit says the surfeit of time lapse films has been a boon to his creativity: “I’ve just had to change the
technique. In order to create that sense of otherworldliness, to make people see things in a different way, things have to be new and unique,” he says Read the full Story >>
