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The Halftone
by The Halftone
The Halftone is my chance to visit with photographers to talk with them about what they do, how they do it, and how they got there.
Episodes
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Episode 19: Alex Matzke
Alex Matzke devotes her photography to the lives and stories of young women, farmers, Tribal Nations and refugees. Join us for a talk about her early days making Polaroids with her mother, her pictures of women in the military, and her work over the last several years documenting opposition to…
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Episode 18: Mitch Epstein
I visited with Mitch Epstein to talk about his days as a student making pictures in New York City, studying with Garry Winogrand, and setting out across the US in an orange Datsun his father won in a raffle. We also discussed his time working on films in India and his projects Family Business,...
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Episode 17: Lois Conner
Lois Conner has been traveling the world with her 7x17 view camera for more than 30 years. Listen is as we discuss her early travels in the American West, working for the United Nations and making pictures in China. We also discuss her time with mentors like Philippe Halsman and Richard Benson as...
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Episode 16: Andrea Modica
On the show this week it’s Andrea Modica. Andrea fell in love with the 8x10 view camera as a teenager and hasn’t looked back. It’s been a constant in her personal work for long-term projects and commissioned work alike. We met up in Philadelphia to discuss her study of photography and the mentors...
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Episode 15: Matt Eich
My guest this week in photographer Matt Eich. We met up to talk about his work photographing the Southern United States and Appalachia, his time as a graduate student in the Hartford Art School’s International Limited-Residency Program and his life as a dad and family man. Not to mention…
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Episode 14: Thomas Roma
This week on the Halftone you’ll hear my talk with Thomas Roma! Tune in for big discussions of photography, Wall Street, a car crash, carpentry, building cameras and Roma’s new publishing imprint SPQR Editions! Not to mention his time with Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Cartier-Bresson…
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Episode 13: Sarah Greenough
On the show this week my guest is Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the photography department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. I recently visited with her at the National Gallery to talk about her early love of photography, years spent researching the photographs of...
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Episode 12: Christian Patterson
On the show this week my guest is photographer Christian Patterson. I recently visited his Brooklyn studio to talk about his start in photography, his time working with Winston and William Eggleston, his break-out work Redheaded Peckerwood and his latest project and show at Festival Images in...
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Episode 11: Darius Himes
This week on the Halftone my guest is Darius Himes. Over the course of his career Himes has been an editor of the photo-eye booklist, a director of Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and co-founder of photography imprint Radius Books. With Mary Virginia Swanson he is the co-author of Publish Your...
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Episode 10: Adam Bellefeuil
Photographer Adam Bellefeuil is a photographer and family man who makes his living as a video game designer. We met up at his home in Carey, North Carolina to talk about his career in video game design and his start in photography. We also discuss his series of night-time landscape pictures Black...
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Episode 09: Paul Schiek
Publisher and photographer Paul Schiek joins me on the show this week. Schiek is the founder of the photobook publishing outfit TBW Books and over the past ten years he has released titles with many enduring artists including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg and Katy Grannan as well as...
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Episode 08: Leslie Williamson
Leslie Williamson joins us today on the Halftone! We recently met up in San Francisco to talk about growing up in the Bay Area, photographing brain surgery and her love of midcentury design. Over the past few years Leslie has published two wonderful books which showcase designers’ homes from…
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Episode 07: Sandra Phillips
My guest this week is photography curator Sandra Phillips from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Listen in as we talk about her start in New York, hanging around the Museum of Modern Art in New York as a young woman and her move to SFMOMA. We also talk about some of her work with greats…
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Episode 06: Doug DuBois
Doug DuBois joins me for this episode of the Halftone! Listen in as we discuss Doug’s discovery of photography, his working relationships with Jerome Liebling, Larry Sultan and Mitch Epstein as well as his long-term book project All the Days and Nights and his newest book My Last Day at Seventeen.
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Episode 05: Alec Soth
My guest this week is Alec Soth. We met up to talk about his early days in Minnesota, how Prince bought his childhood home, studies at Sarah Lawrence and the travels behind bodies of work like Sleeping By the Mississippi, Niagara and Songbook.
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Episode 04: Thomas Palmer
For more than thirty years Thomas Palmer has been making printing separations for books. His credits include work by Lee Friedlander, Nicholas Nixon, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and many others. In spring of 2015 I visited Palmer at his home in Newport, Rhode Island to...
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Episode 03: Jon Goodman
As a young man Jon Goodman set out from the United States for Europe to learn photogravure printing. At the time of his journey in the mid-1970s the practice of making flat plate gravures had all but disappeared. After years of travel and trials in Europe and the United States, Goodman began...
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Episode 02: Robert Hennessey
This spring I traveled to New England to visit with a few of the printers behind some of my favorite photobooks. Robert Hennessey makes printing separations for books. His work is behind some of the best photography books of the last several decades, including titles by Paul Strand, Helen Levitt,...
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Episode 01: Bryan Schutmaat
For the past several years Bryan Schutmaat has been making photographs around small mountain towns in the American West. We recently met up in Philadelphia to talk about his Texas upbringing, ditch-surfing, his early work in photography and his recent book Grays the Mountain Sends.
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The Halftone is my chance to visit with photographers to talk with them about what they do, how they do it, and how they got there.
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