Untitled, No Date © Gil Blank / Courtesy of LaMontagne Gallery, Boston Gil Blank is a photographer and writer. His photographs have been exhibited at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and White Columns, New York; The Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Ville d’Images, Vevey, Switzerland; Lawrimore Project, Seattle; and LaMontagne Gallery, Boston. His photographs will next be [...]
Mike Mandel, 1975 [from "The Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards"] © Mike Mandel Last year I published an interview with Mike Mandel in
Butterflies, 2007 [from "I Want to Live Innocent"] © Torbjørn Rødland Norwegian artist Torbjørn Rødland has been described as “to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop music.” His contemporary, Gil Blank, once described his photographs as “blatantly retarded in a consciously agile way.” For fifteen years, Rødland has been making work that [...]
Sara, Icelandair, 2006 [from "Flight Attendants"] © Brian Finke Over the summer I had the chance to call up New York-based photographer Brian Finke and chat with him about his latest monograph, Flight Attendants (powerHouse Books, 2008). I want to thank Brian for taking the time to work with me on this interview and Photo-eye [...]
Ústí nad Labem, June, 2002 (from “Czech Eden”) © Matthew Monteith Brooklyn-based photographer Matthew Monteith graduated from the MFA program at Yale in 2004 and has since released a book of photographs from the Czech Republic entitled Czech Eden (Aperture, 2007), one of my favorite monographs from last year. I want to thank Matthew for [...]
Untitled (Shadow), Mexico, 2001 (from “Shut Up Truth”) © Michael Schmelling Recently, I spoke with New York based photographer Michael Schmelling about the curious stories behind two of his most recent projects and about his relationship with photography in general, including how he came to it in the first place. I’d like to thank Michael [...]
Marks of Indifference #10 (Detail), 2006 (from “Marks of Indifference”) © Mark Wyse I was very glad to have the opportunity to speak with Mark Wyse about his work. This is the first in a series of interviews called Contemporary Dialogues. The following conversation (text only) can also be viewed as a printer-friendly PDF.
