JULIANA BEASLEY: “Last Stop – Rockaway Park”

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…you like the plague… you are the plague… you have no hope. What if this is what you believed… but what if your mind has lied to you? Like Richard Billingham’s, Ray’s a Laugh, Last Stop: Rockaway Park from Juliana Beasley is such a place – or is it? We can see this… what this looks like to break down, to be invisible, we can see what it must be like to be seen as nothing… where it happens, what it feels like, right…

JULIANA BEASLEY: “Last Stop – Rockaway Park”

INTERVIEW: “Oral History Interview with Ben Shahn” (1965)

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… on this idea anyway, again for imaginary space, you know, imaginary murals. When I found out what this PWAP was about, Public Works of Art Project….It was under the head of the director of the Whitney. HARLAN PHILLIPS: Juliana Force? BEN SHAHN: No, no. Who’s running it now? The head of the Whitney Museum right now? HARLAN PHILLIPS: Lloyd Goodrich. BEN SHAHN: Lloyd Goodrich. He might have been under Juliana at the time, but he was in charge…

INTERVIEW: “Oral History Interview with Ben Shahn” (1965)

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

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…. It just simply means that I am able to think better. Let’s put it that way. AC: I read that you don’t really consider yourself an environmental portrait photographer, is that true? AN: No, I think basically I am. But I hate labels. That label was placed on me by an early writer who did an article on me calling me the father of the environmental portrait, which seems to have stuck. But the Stravinsky is not an environmental portrait, it’s really…

INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Arnold Newman”

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

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…enting is extremely dull and journalism…I’m a very bad reporter and a photojournalist. Capa told me when I had an exhibition at the museum of Modern Art in ’46, he said no, he’d be very careful. You mustn’t have a label of a surrealist photographer. All my training was surrealism. I still feel very close to a surrealist but he said if you were labelled as a surrealist photographer you won’t go any further you won’t have an assignment …

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: “Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson” (1973)

 
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