American Suburb X

• JOHN SZARKOWSKI: “On Robert Frank’s Book ‘The Americans’” (1986)
  contact sheet from The Americans   “I saw it I suppose very shortly after it was published, when I was still working as a photographer myself, and it was, frankly, shocking. I sensed the power in it, and the authority about it but there was much about it that I didn’t like… The Americans was received with mixed critical reaction. Not primarily because of its […]
• ASX INTERVIEW: Gregory Halpern – “On Documentary Ethics” (2013)
  From A, by Gregory Halpern ASX asks artists a single question, Cameron Van Loos begins with Gregory Halpern, April 2013 Cameron Van Loos: How do documentary ethics function within your photography? Gregory Halpern: To ask what one’s ethics are when making photographs of other people is as complicated as asking what one’s ethics are in general. I should start […]
• INTERVIEW: “Interview with Bettie Page” (1998)
  Bettie Page by Irving Klaw Transcribed from Nashville Citysearch’s Bettie Page Live Chat, held September 23, 1998 at 8:00 PM Karen Essex (moderator): Welcome! My name is Karen Essex. I’m sitting here with Bettie – she’s excited to get started. I wrote Bettie Page, The Life of a Pin-Up Legend. Bettie, why don’t you say hello to the fans? Bettie Page: Hello. K […]