002 - Michael Eastman

from Anti- · host Kevin Kelly

Michael Eastman is an artist working with a camera. eastmanimages.com @michaeleastmanphotography 4:00 - Dude 5:00 - Big Lebowski/Jeff Bridges/Weed 8:50 - St. Louis slow to change visually 11:10 - Rate of Urban Renewal in STL 14:45 - Beginnings as a photographer 15:05 - “A lot of times when I went out and photographed my mantra was, ‘If I were aware of what people 150 years from right now were interested in, then I would photograph those things. They’d be significant records; historical records. And a photographer, unlike many artists, is really part historian. What they’re doing is recording a reality in time, that changes. So that was meaningful for me to see these changes and to record them. To do a portrait of a place.” - Eastman 17:30 - Why did Eastman get into photography in the first place? 19:10 - College years/Entering the workforce 23:10 - The attraction of photography 24:00 - The Daybooks of Edward Weston 24:30 - First Photographs as a “Photographer” 26:45 - Emotion in photography 27:03 - “What you feel about a photograph is transmitted, translated, communicated into print.” - Eastman 28:45 - Photograph things that you have feelings about 29:25 - Ansel Adams & Others 31:40 - First photo jobs 38:39 - “When I started, there was all these voices in my head. There were critics, gallery owners, museum curators, my parents, their friends – there was a Shakespearean chorus of naysayers telling me I couldn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t do it. Those voices propelled me.” - Eastman 40:25 - Relating Michael’s Story to the concept of Anti- 42:00 - Eastman’s First Show at Washington University 44:40 - Maintaining an attitude of incompleteness 49:00 - Sitting on your work for awhile 50:00 - Knowing William Gass 54:30 - Shooting Forest Park & showing them to Gass in his last years - 58:15 - Reinvesting back into yourself 1:00:00 - Commercial vs. Fine Art Work 1:00:15 - Shooting Nudes as Landscape 1:06:00 - Finding success in fine art later in life 1:09:00 - Success is the most difficult thing for an artist to overcome 1:11:05 - Vivian Maier 1:12:50 - Lee Friedlander 1:13:50 - Gaining a national reputation with commercial work 1:20:00 - Low overhead = more freedom 1:21:00 - Learning about studio lighting 1:22:00 - Shooting on location 1:26:00 - 9/11 & No Work - 1:29:00 - Overview of Eastman’s fine art work 1:33:00 - The importance of printmaking 1:40:00 - What Eastman’s working on now 1:46:00 - When photography became recognized in the art world - 1:49:00 - Agoraphobia 1:52:00 - Childhood fears 1:54:28 - A Ghost Story 1:57:30 - Composition/Framing 2:04:30 - Originality 2:06:00 - Cuba 2:07:00 - Buena Vista Social Club 2:08:00 - Traveling to Cuba 2:11:00 - Isabella's Two Chairs 2:14:00 - Havana 2:17:00 - Book sales lead to gallery openings 2:19:00 - Traveling photo show 2:21:20 - The Price of Everything 2:23:30 - NOLA and Current Photo work 2:25:00 - Forest Park Retrospective 2:30:00 - Leaving instagram 2:32:30 - Waking up with something to do 2:33:30 - Feeling mortal

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