Anthony Kiedis & Ed Ruscha Driving Sunset Blvd. (2011)

No other artist today personifies the mood and attitude of Southern California like Anthony Kiedis. It’s a distinction he and The Red Hot Chili Peppers have earned for over two decades of music that’s shaped the contemporary sound of the West Coast. Like Ed Ruscha, Anthony Kiedis drew inspiration from Los Angeles and used words […]

John Szarkowski – “A Life in Photography”

  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 […]

ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “Forward Thinkers” (2011)

BIO: Todd Hido is an American contemporary artist and photographer. Currently based in San Francisco, much of Hido’s work involves urban and suburban housing across the U.S., of which the artist produces large, highly detailed and luminous color photographs.

ASX.TV: Cindy Sherman – “Nobody’s Here But Me” (1994)

New York based artist, Cindy Sherman, is famous for her photographs of women in which she is not only the photographer, but also the subject. She has contributed her own footage to the programme by recording her studio and herself at work with her Hi-8 video camera. It reveals a range of unexpected sources from […]

ASX.TV: Roger Ballen – “Dark Room, Roger Ballen’s printer – Dennis Da Silva” (2011)

http://docsonline.eu/?search=Selfportrait&type=title&docinfo=98 Selfportrait is a documentary film about the controversial photographer Roger Ballen. Born and bred in New York, he has lived in South Africa for nearly thirty years. The film sketches his development as photographer and, as a side-theme, the development of South Africa. ‘Selfportrait’ was filmed a few months after Ballen released his book […]

ASX.TV: William Christenberry – “inContext.TV” (2010)

Photographer, painter and sculptor William Christenberry works with personal and sometimes mythical themes grown out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama. Produced by: Sam Douglas and Jack Sanders Photographed by: Dutch Rall Edited by: Sam Douglas for iNCONTEXT.TV a production of KLRU Austin PBS Executive in charge of Prod: Phil Smith El Capitan: […]