ZED NELSON
Image Above: ©Zed Nelson (Miss Essex. Loser. Miss England Competition. Leicester, UK) ZED NELSON is London-based photographer. Nelson began his career as a documentary photographer, which earned him...
View ArticlePHILLIP TOLEDANO: THE NARCISSIST
Image above: Phillip Toledano (Portrait by Andrea Blanch) ANDREA BLANCH: What advice would you give to an emerging photographer? PHILLIP TOLEDANO: You’ve got to be shameless, and by that I don’t...
View ArticleMAURIZIO PELLEGRIN: self and the selfie
Image above: Maurizio Pellegrin by Andrea Blanch ANDREA BLANCH: What comes to mind when I say, “Vanity”? MAURIZIO PELLEGRIN: It depends. You mean as a human being or historically? AB: Both, I like when...
View ArticleDAISUKE TAKAKURA
Image Above: ©Daisuke Takakura (Monodramatic, Air) “I’m hungry” “Let’s go out for lunch” “I have some work to hand in” “Well…” “It looks like it’s going to rain” ©Daisuke Takakura (Monodramatic,...
View ArticleOLIVIER ZAHM: purple life
Image Above: ©Olivier Zahm (Olivier Zahm at The Standard, High Line, New York, 2011) ANDREA BLANCH: Why the name “Purple”? OLIVIER ZAHM: It’s an interesting color, with a sexual connotation in the...
View ArticlePETER HORT: the love collector
Image Above: Peter Hort’s portrait by Andrea Blanch. ANDREA BLANCH: What do you think about the digital era’s influence on how art is consumed and valued today? PETER HORT: I think sharing is good....
View ArticleADAM HARVEY: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Image Above: Portrait by Adam Harvey STEVE MILLER: This issue of Musee is about controversy and you are focusing your artistic efforts on an important global discussion but, before we go there,...
View ArticleNEIL DACOSTA: mormon sutra
Image Above: ©Andrea Blanch (Neil Dacosta & Sara Phillips) ANDREA BLANCH: Are you a Mormon? NEIL DACOSTA: No. Sara and I are married and we’ve both lived in Salt Lake City. We have a …...Read More
View ArticleKAY CHERNUSH: leave no victims
Image Above: ©Kay Chernush (Self-Portrait) ANDREA BLANCH: Do you think sex trafficking can be brought to an end through legislation? Why or why not? KAY CHERNUSH: You need to make a distinction between...
View ArticleED LACHMAN: the idea behind the image
Image above: Edward Lachman on the set of I’m not There, 2007 ANDREA BLANCH: Can you speak about your art and the connection between photography and film? ED LACHMAN: I came out of art school, …...Read...
View ArticleISRAEL AND PALESTINE BY THOMAS STRUTH AT MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY
©Thomas Struth, Al-Ram Quarry, Kafr ‘Aqab, 2011. Courtesy the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. This exhibition presented works made in the context of two different recent projects, which are...
View ArticleCOLOR BLIND BY GORDON PARKS
Image Above: Portrait by Gordon Parks. All images courtesy The Gordon Parks Foundation A possible obstacle in understanding Gordon Parks’ series “The Restraints: Open and Hidden” nearly 60 years...
View ArticleINVENTING THE FUTURE BY FRED RITCHIN
Image Above: Portrait by Ports Bishop. ©International Center of Photography. ANDREA BLANCH: In our interview with Mark Lubell, he claimed that you are incredibly tapped in with the millennial...
View ArticleRalph Gibson: Political Abstraction at Mary Boone Gallery
Image above: At Mary Boone Gallery during the opening night. ©Paula Rey Jiménez. STEVE MILLER: I walk into your studio downtown, and I notice there is not a darkroom. That’s a big difference from...
View ArticlePatrick Faigenbaum at Aperture Foundation and the Hermès
Image above: © Patrick Faigenbaum, Between Salt Lake and Kestopur, northeast Kolkata, July 2014. Courtesy of Aperture Gallery. Patrick Faigenbaum’s exhibition Kolkata/Calcutta, on display at...
View ArticleFranco Pagetti:
Image above: Franco Pagetti by Andrea Blanch Andrea Blanch: Do you think of your work as art or as photojournalism? Franco Pagetti: I still think as a photojournalist, more than as an artist. Looking...
View ArticleBettina WitteVeen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital Building
Image above: © Bettina WitteVeen, “Body,” Alma Battlefield, Crimea, Ukraine / Courtesy of Susan Grant Lewin Associates. Bettina WitteVeen’s latest photography installation, “When We Were Soldiers…...
View ArticleGeorges Rousse: Éloge Des Lieux at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
Image above: © Georges Rousse, Monferrand, 2012 / Courtesy of Georges Rousse and Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York. Currently on view at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is Éloge des Lieux (In Praise of...
View ArticleSotheby’s & Surface magazine’s Photographs Auction
Image above: ©Horst P. Horst. 1906-1999. CHANEL BEAUTY, NEW YORK This week Sotheby’s auctioned a collection of over 200 works chronicling decades of photographic history. Encompassing a huge array of...
View ArticleNow Here Then by Huger Foote, Published by Dashwood Books
Image above: Portrait of Huger Foote. The photographs in Huger Foote’s book, Now Here Then, published by Dashwood Books,were taken all over the world, and later archived, stored, and then finally...
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