Magic Hour

A conversation about Durbin's latest book, The Wonderful World That Almost Was, a joint biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan Weitzman gets together with archivist Olivian Cha to talk about her work with Corita's photographic archive at the Corita Art Centre in LA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In our last episode of the year, Jordan Weitzman gets together with artist Genesis Baez for a generous conversation about her work and upcoming book with Capricious. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A visit with Matt Leifheit at his Matte HQ storefront in Brooklyn to talk about his work as a photographer, publisher and editor. His first monograph, To Die Alive, is being published by Damiani this spring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan Weitzman gets together with Terri Weifenbach at Jardins des Plantes, where she's photographed extensively since moving to Paris two years ago. They talk about her new book, Cloud Physics, published this month with The Ice Palace and Atelier EXB. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan Weitzman gets together with Dayanita Singh, whose work often blurs the lines between bookmaking and exhibiting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was a little strange getting together with Shala Miller in the same space we’d met in less than a year ago. It was Farah Al Qasimi’s opening at Helena Anrather’s gallery, and the room was packed. This time, we were in the same space, but it was filled with Shala’s things instead - stuff for her to work on and during residency she was doing at the gallery. The room had different workstations that were set up, which made sense to me given Shala’s practice. She is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, film and music, which she makes under the name Freddie June. As I’ve gotten more and more into her work, I’ve discovered that It’s the tapestry of it all that makes it so compelling and rich. Shala is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, studied at SAIC in Chicago and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris before pursuing her MFA at Bard. She currently lives and works in New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While preparing to interview Moyra Davey, I started to really try and figure out what it is that I love so much about her work.Is it that she is able to deal with the most mundane, everyday subject matter in such a personal, unpretentious, electrifying, simple and complex way?Is it her subject matter that’s so appealing? Artists that she’s interested in, diaries, ephemera, hang-ups, let downs, preocupations, inspirations, quotes, books? Is it that she speaks of those things in the first place?Is it her form? The simple elegance of it which is a through line in all her work from the writing to the films to the mailers.“I’m trying to write in the forms of the work I want to read” she writes in her title essay of her recent book Index Cards published by New Directions. That seems like such a simple and easy thing to do, but it’s really the most challenging place to get to.Moyra was born in Toronto in 1958, grew up in Montreal and lives in New York now, where she’s been for some 30 years.She is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and just last month, she opened a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On an unusually mild winter evening this past February, I got together with Mary Manning at her apartment in NYC. She is the author of Blueprint and First Impressions of Greece, and has contributed to numerous publications, most recently, a wonderful image text exchange with the author Olivia Laing in the Spirituality issue of Aperture. In 2006, she started the blog Unchanging Window, which became an important creative outlet for her and a way of finding community. She has shown with Canada (gallery) in NYC, has shot for Ekhaus Latta, and recently contributed photos to the Dimes Cookbook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the chair next to me sat a worn out copy of Toni Morrisson’s Beloved, a favorite which Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. told me he’s read at least three times. We were sitting at the kitchen table in the apartment which he’s been living at in Flushing, Queens, on the upstairs floor of a yellow and burgundy house museum dedicated to the work of Louis Ladimer. Ladimer was the inventor of the carbon-filament light bulb, an addendum and improvement to Thomas Edison’s original lightbulb. So the photographer is living in the house of someone who helped a great deal with the way we see, and in Elliott’s case, it seemed particularly apt. At his recent solo show in New York at Nicelle Beauchane, his photographs radiated with grace and elegance, a heightened sensitivity to form, rendering unexpected, complicated and beautiful images out of his everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.