INTERVIEW: “Stephen Shore with Noah Sheldon and Roger White” (2005)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July, 1972 By Noah Sheldon and Roger White Noah Sheldon: I heard a lecture once where you said that when you teach, you try to think about how you felt when you were the student’s age. Stephen Shore: Or at that place. Sheldon: Right. Shore: I see myself in the role of a guide. I...
DAVID LACHAPELLE: “Neo-Pop and Photoshop” (2007)
Lady Gaga By Matthias Harder, Originally Published in Sleek Magazine for Art and Fashion, No. 13, Winter, 2006-2007 It is as if we were staring into the faces of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor, as only Andy Warhol could have rendered them. But we are actually looking at Amanda Lepore, one of David LaChapelle’s favourite...
BILL BRANDT: “Don’t Smile – You Look Stupid” (2004)
Dylan Thomas, 1941 By Sebastian Smee, March 22, 2004 Taking celebrity portraits involves making a crucial decision. You can embrace the celebrity machine, relishing your own role in the business of image-creation; this was the approach of Cecil Beaton and he handled the task more deftly than almost anyone, as the crowds at the National Portrait...
Salvador Dalí Has Left the Building
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Un Chien andalou. 1928. France. 35mm print, black and white, silent, approx. 16 min. Gift of Luis Buñuel Between 1964 and 1966 Andy Warhol commenced an ambitious project in which he would photograph, using 16mm motion picture film, his Factory superstars, art world luminaries, underground celebrities, fashionistas, rock and roll gods, bold-faced Hollywood...
Parker Posey Interview For Index Magazine (1996)
WITH CHRISTINA KELLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY WOLFGANG TILLMANS Soap-star-come-indie-character-actress Parker Posey has quite the deadpan, quirky presence. Parker, 27, is best known for her starring role in Party Girl, a movie in which she plays a student of the night who finds true fulfillment as a librarian. But the Laurel, Mississippi misfit has had many a...
Video: Interview with Cory McAbee, Part 1
Cory McAbee has been gracing audiences with his own brand of surreal, imaginative, musical cinema for almost two decades. He stunned both audiences and critics in 2001 with his first feature length film, THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, which soon generated a cult following. This year he has been touring the festival circuit with STINGRAY SAM, a sci-fi western...
Courtney Love ‘The Fix’ Interview: Drugs, Sex, Rehab & More
The Survivor: Courtney Love’s most Intimate Interview Ever. By Maer Roshan 05/22/11 Last September, I heard that Courtney Love had agreed to star in a large “recovery rally”—an annual event held in New York’s Randall’s Island State Park to celebrate sobriety. Intrigued by the prospect of the oft-distressed diva performing before thousands of former addicts...
Photographer Robert Yager Interview
For photographer Robert Yager, there is no formula. The soft-spoken Brit, now 38, was a teenager when he first thought about photography. Hitchhiking around Europe, he borrowed a friend’s camera and started making pictures. When he returned to his home city of London, he viewed a show of American photographers that caught his eye. Especially...
Jim Henson Interview (1982)
Interview on 9/21/82 by Judy Harris Just before THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) was due to open, Fred Clarke, publisher of CINEFANTASTIQUE, called to ask if I would like to write an article about the career of Jim Henson. Would I! I had been a fan of the Muppets since I first saw them making guest...
Artist Nadine Byrne
Swedish multifaceted artist, Nadine Byrne, conjures ritualistic images in varied gammas of disciplines. Together, with the Dream Family and her music projects, she binds her personal aesthetic with action. Rituals are everywhere. We sometimes forget that rituals are the decantation of abstract ideas into the symbolic actions that give them a body. They are also...
Interview with Kim Gordon by Richard Kern
Portrait by Richard Kern Dossier Journal Attempting to pin a label on Kim Gordon is like trying to understand the lyrics of Sonic Youth’s songs: it’s beside the point. She has worked for Larry Gagosian, written for Artforum, exhibited paintings and directed music videos, produced Hole’s first album and was briefly a character on The Simpsons. Currently,...
Filmmaker Chris Marker Interview (2007)
A rare interview with one of cinema’s most secretive filmmakers. By Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire By Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/5-6-2003/markerint.htm Originally published in Libération, March 5, 2003. With thanks to Antoine de Baecque. “What interests me is history, and politics only interests me to the degree that it is the mark history...
In Memoriam Corinne Day
Corinne Day portrait by Mark Szaszy, Japan 1987 © Estate of Corinne Day, Courtesy Gimpel Fils, London As August 27 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of Corinne Day’s death, next month sees Gimpel Fils gallery, Mörel Books and Whitechapel Gallery all pay homage to the legendary image-maker. Revolutionising fashion photography in the early 90s with her candid and documentary aesthetic, sensationally labelled...
Salvador Dali Interview (1958)
Salvador Dali, the surrealist painter, talks to Wallace about genius, the subconscious, weakness, old age and luxury, death, religion, and dreams. THE MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW Guest: Salvador Dali 4/19/58 WALLACE: Good evening…Tonight we go after the story of an extraordinary personality. He’s Salvador Dali, the great surrealist painter who sees the world through surrealist eyes....
Lou Taylor Pucci Interview “Thumbsucker” (2005)
Lou Taylor Pucci had only recently turned twenty when he sat down for our interview, his first on the Thumbsucker personal appearance tour. Regardless, his credits include an extensive Broadway run in The Sound of Music, a film debut opposite Fairuza Balk in Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, and the role of John Voss...
An excerpt from Conversations with Picasso by Brassaï (1943)
Wednesday 20 October 1943 The table, only yesterday covered with dust, is completely clean. Catalogs, brochures, books, and letters have been carefully dusted and even arranged by size into regular piles. Picasso appears, delighted with my surprise. Picasso: I searched again all night for my flashlight. I hate it when people pilfer my things. Since...
David Strettel, Dashwood Books
Photo by Derek Peck David Strettell is the founder and owner of Dashwood Books, a tiny but enormously influential photography bookstore located on Bond Street in the Bowery section of Manhattan. Since opening in 2005, Dashwood has become New York City’s insider resource and social nexus for the latest in contemporary international photography. With an...
VICTOR COBO – “Down in the Hole” (2011)
The Spectre of Theater By Tricia Lawless Murray Masochism is itself an aesthetic formation. The only place where its contradictions and impossibilities can be reconciled is that specific zone that modern aesthetic philosophy, from Kant to Lyotard, has identified as the sublime, that unique and illogical experience that carries with it both pleasure and pain. —Nick...
BILL BRANDT – “A Statement on Photography” (1948)
Street scene, Peckham, 1936 By Bill Brandt, First published in Camera in London, 1948 I had the good fortune to start my career in Paris in 1929. For any young photographer at that time, Paris was the centre of the world. Those were the exciting early days when the French poets and surrealists recognised the...
“Katie Simpson, Fashion Photography Archivist” – AnOther Magazine
Katie Simpson Photography by Niall O’Brien As the Alexander McQueen exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum comes to a close after drawing over 582,000 visitors (ranking the exhibition among the top 20 the museum has ever staged) has definitely proven: fashion has an increasing currency and relevance in the art world. Uniquely poised to benefit from...
