Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on tradition:  ART21: Is your photography process straightforward? Do you use any special techniques?SUGIMOTO: Special techniques? Well, this is my studio in the Chelsea area of New York. I am on the eleventh floor, facing the north sky. This is like a very... View full entry

We will project our final film in Smith's Ranch Drive-In, in 29 Palms - who has ever seen a fleet of electric cars gazing at the electric screen in the night?  Here's a bit of the Drive-In Story and Drive-In Photographs: "In July 1895, two aptly named Frenchmen, the Lumière brothers, presented... View full entry

 Alec Soth on becoming a photographer:       View full entry

Michael confirmed that he indeed created continuous, uninterrupted exposures over those long periods of time. This can be seen through the long light lines in the sky, which were created by the movement of the sun across the sky during those many months. Michael wanted to highlight that he also... View full entry

Values in music and photography, instinct and technique..  "the justification for technique is being able to do what you want to do, when you want to do it!" View full entry

working method with Ansel Adams

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 Ansel Adams, Photography and the Sierra Club View full entry

Ansel Adams and Wilderness

Alec Soth, inspired by the films of Ozu, working on portraits:  How does he communicate a story and manipulate space to take a photograph..: View full entry

 Jean-Michel Crettaz, who will meet us in LA for a talk, sent us this photograph of a road-side encounter. View full entry

What does a tesla look like inside..?Like a strange super-light go-kart glued together with resin!  View full entry

Reading the "Autonauts of the Cosmoroute", by literature and photography giant travellers J. Cortazar and C. Dunlop: In May of ‘82, Julio Cortázar set out with Carol Dunlop aboard their VW camper van (a.k.a. "Fafner") to explore the uncharted territory of the Paris-Marseilles freeway. It was a... View full entry