 …hich houses his FSA photographs. Surprisingly, until now a full-length biography of Evans has never been undertaken, although his life and photographs have occupied distinguished photographic and cultural historians including John Szarkowski, William Stott, Alan Trachtenberg, and most recently, Jean-Francois Chevrier.(2) The most elusive of the Depression-era photographers, Evans’s personality and method of working set him apart from his co… WALKER EVANS: “Scavenging the Landscape – Walker Evans and American Life” (1996) Artificial Nature by John Divola Over twenty years ago I read an essay by Arthur C. Clarke that occasionally comes to mind. Clarke was speculating on the certainty that mankind would develop artificial intelligence, and that eventually such intelligence would have the ability to learn, move through the world, and act. It would not be constrained by the limitations of biological life span and it could live indefinitely. Eventually, it might tra… JOHN DIVOLA: "Artificial Nature" (2002)  From 1962 to 1991, John Szarkowski served as the Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This documentary examines Szarkowski’s rich life as guided by the lens — both curator and photographer. Ultimately he was a man who helped to establish photography as a true and different kind of art. To read more about John Szarkowski and his life in photography, please visit:http://checkerboardfilm… ASX.TV: John Szarkowski – “A Life in Photography”  Judy Fiskin Interviewed by John Divola Divola: Your background was in Art History. How did you decide to become a photographer? Fiskin: After the first week of graduate school at Berkeley, I realized they had changed the game on me, and I quit school. I went over to the university employment center and found out that the only thing I qualified for with my B.A. in art history was clerk typist. So I re-enrolled and decided to stay in graduate sc… INTERVIEW: “Judy Fiskin Interviewed by John Divola”  Zuma Series, 1977 Journal of Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, September 1978 Dialogue with John Divola by Dinah Portner Q. Do you think of photography as a concrete way of dealing with ideas? A. No, it’s not that they are ideas, per se. I see art as a dialogue about experiences and the way you experience things. And primarily, what I am dealing with is visual experience. Q. So the dialogue is between you and the environment? … INTERVIEW: “Interview with John Divola” (1978)  … appear strange to you. The architecture is fairly monotonous and the country is flat. And all of my friends who live in Westchester or Connecticut abhor this flatness. And I almost began to apologize for it until the old man John Marin wanted to come out here one day and he asked me exactly where it is that we live, and I told him. And he said, oh I used to go sketching there – which meant seventy years ago when I was a kid, you know. He said th… INTERVIEW: “Oral History Interview with Ben Shahn” (1968)  …gn is everywhere, but it is hard to distinguish from the native. His Japan has fully absorbed the American vires into its own chemistry, and while a Japanese might hate this condition, there is no possibility of reversing it. John Szarkowski recognized the divergence of Moriyama from Tomatsu when their work was still quite new, writing that “the suggestion of the nihilistic that exists in Tomatsu’s work has been made boldly and effect… DAIDO MORIYAMA: Daido Moriyama: Investigations of a Dog” (1999)  Photographer John Gossage finds moments of grace and elegance in even the most mundane places. Join the artist and curator of photography Toby Jurovics for a conversation about The Pond and its role in the history of American landscape photography. … ASX.TV: John Gossage – “A Conversation” (2010)  Super-size it with photographer John Chiara, whose camera is so large that he has to tow it on a flatbed trailer. Original air date: May 2006. … ASX.TV: John Chiara – “KQED” (2006)  Featured Speaker John Gossage Photographers + Publishing: SPE Joint Regional Conference Hosted by Light Work Saturday, November 5 7:30pm – 8:30pm Light Work Robert B. Menschel Media Center 316 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13210 … ASX.TV: John Gossage – “SPE Conference” (2011) |
