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Scenic Roots“Walk This Way Through Fashion” At The Hunter MuseumChery Jordan(Hunter Museum of American Art)“Walk This Way” is an exhibit now on display at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga.It features footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes, organized by the New York Historical.On Thursday, starting at 6 PM, Chery Jordan and the Runway Rebels will present a fashion show at the Hunter that’s all about the shoes: “Walk This Way Through Fashion.”2025-06-2608 min
Immaterial VoicesPhotography and Traversing Borders: A Conversation with Jeff SmuddeHow can we work at the boundaries of the landscape as well as our perceptions? How can we work across multi-media within the context of still image-based projects? How do our projects mobilize a certain poetics? In this conversation, Brian O'Neill and Jeff Smudde discuss paths through higher education like MFA programs, as well as the importance of the mentors one can meet along the way. They also cover questions about work-life balance and how to navigate the seemingly ever-present desire to be pushing one’s work forward.Jeff discusses his background in design and mu...2025-05-141h 13
Indy AudioDec 10 The Indypendent News Hour: Daniel Penny Trial Reaction, Tenants Right to CounselOn today's Indypendent News Hour, our hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress.
We will also speak with Malika Conner of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition and a tenant leader from a Community Action for Safe Housing (CASA), an advocacy group in the South Bronx, about the lack of adequate legal counsel for tenants who are being taken to housing court by their landlords.
We will be...2024-12-1259 minIndy AudioDec 10 The Indypendent News Hour: Family and Radical Lawyer React to Daniel Penny VerdictJohn Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress.2024-12-1229 minIndy AudioDec 10 The Indypendent News Hour: Daniel Penny Trial Reaction, Tenants Right to CounselOn today's Indypendent News Hour, our hosts John Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress.
We will also speak with Malika Conner of the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition and a tenant leader from a Community Action for Safe Housing (CASA), an advocacy group in the South Bronx, about the lack of adequate legal counsel for tenants who are being taken to housing court by their landlords.
We will be...2024-12-1259 minIndy AudioDec 10 The Indypendent News Hour: Family and Radical Lawyer React to Daniel Penny VerdictJohn Tarleton and Ariana Orozco will discuss yesterday's Daniel Penny not guilty verdict with Chris Neely, uncle of Jordan Neely, and radical lawyer Eileen Weitzman, both of whom attended the trial and have been closely monitoring its progress.2024-12-1229 min
TangleThe Daniel Penny verdictOn Monday, a Manhattan jury found Marine veteran Daniel Penny, 26, not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless street artist Penny placed in a chokehold on a New York subway car in May of last year. Previously, the more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on the count. Penny faced up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter and four years for negligent homicide. Monday’s verdict clears Penny of all criminal charges related to Neely’s death. Ad-free podcasts are here!2024-12-1129 min
Highlands BunkerE297 - Market Practice (w/ Chancery Daily)Prospective stockholders Bill, Jordan, and Chance join Rob in the bunker to talk about the most important change to the Delaware General Corporation Law in decades: SB313, which is trying to legislatively overturn a recent Chancery Court ruling banning shady stockholder agreements. We talk about how this came about and what might happen next.Show Notes:Travis Laster's LinkedInThe Chancery Court pushes backHal Weitzman episode2024-06-071h 17
Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to BroadwayThe Mambo Kings: The Musical (2005)It was supposed to be the musical that turned Latinx characters in musical theater from hoodlums and gang members to heroes and inspirations! A musical that was steeped in the rhythms of Latinx history and a story that would examine assimilation and appropriation within the immigration experience. So why was creator Arne Glimcher leaving his heart, and show, in San Francisco? Well you see what happened was…..well, we are going to let composer Carlos Frazetti tell us in this episode of Broadway Bound which will focus on the 2005 heart-breaker The Mambo Kings!BROADWAY BO...2024-02-291h 11TangleThe deaths of U.S. troops in Jordan.The death of U.S. soldiers. On Sunday, U.S. Central Command confirmed that three U.S. Army soldiers were killed and more than 30 service members were injured in an overnight drone attack on a small outpost in Jordan. It was the first time U.S. troops have been killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the beginning of the war in Gaza.You can read today's podcast here, our “Under the Radar” story here and here, an update to the crash of a Russian military transport plane story here, and today’s “Have a nice...2024-02-0126 minHighlands BunkerE278 - Shaking Up the State (w/ Jordan Howell, Karl Stomberg)Bunker regulars Jordan and Karl join Rob in the bunker to talk about the pieces they wrote in the Delaware Call: one about leaked updates to the corporate code that show the effects of last year's organizing, the other about Wilmington's first major strike that shows the effects of organizing from 140 years ago.Show Notes:Interviews in the openingHal Weitzman interviewChancery Daily interviewJordan's piece about the Corporate Law Council amendmentsKarl's piece about the Knights of Labor in WilmingtonClosing story2024-01-2659 min
MyPhillyLawyerCourt Radio: Jordan Harris Joins
On this episode of Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer is joined by Representative Jordan Harris, Majority Appropriations Committee Chair, about the future of politics in Philadelphia, and also takes legal questions from callers.
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Magic HourOlivian ChaJordan 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.2023-12-1920 min
Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT PodcastEP 152: Turning Snoop Dogg's Voice Into AI - The Speechify StoryWill the future of GenAI lead to using AI celebrity voices? How will tech like AI voice cloning come into play? Cliff Weitzman, Founder and CEO of Speechify, joins us to discuss how it's text-to-speech AI is shaping the future of GenAI and its capabilities.Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Ask Cliff and Jordan questions about AI text-to-speechUpcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.com2023-11-2735 min
Magic HourRoxana MarcociJordan Weitzman visits curator Roxana Marcoci at MoMA to talk about her most recent exhibition, a survey show of An-My Lê's work. Marcoci is the David Dechman senior curator and acting chief curator of the department of photography at the museum, where she has been working since 1999. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-11-1730 minTangleRepublicans elect Mike Johnson as Speaker.Mike Johnson (R-LA). Yesterday, Republicans in the House of Representatives elected Johnson their new Speaker. His election ended three weeks without a Speaker, and came after Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Tom Emmer (R-MN) all failed to win a full floor vote after being nominated by the party. Johnson unified the party, winning the votes of all 220 Republicans in attendance, while all 209 Democrats present voted for Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).You can read today's podcast here, today’s Under the Radar story here, and today’s “Have a nice day” story here. You can also chec...2023-10-2627 minTangleThe latest on the House Speaker race.Jim Jordan. The Ohio Republican failed to win the requisite votes to become Speaker on Tuesday, leaving his future in doubt and the House of Representatives in a state of paralysis. Jordan’s nomination for House Speaker began after a handful of Republicans ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) earlier this month, citing broken promises on spending and for working with Democrats to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government from shutting down. You can read today's podcast here, today’s Under the Radar story here, and today’s “Have a nice day” story here. You c...2023-10-1825 min
The Dad I Never HadFrom Foster Care to Fostering Change: Michael's Inspiring Journey Part 2Join us in this inspiring episode as we sit down with Michael Weitzman, who shares his remarkable journey from growing up in the foster care system in Los Angeles to becoming a self-taught software engineer and advocate for children.Navigating through 12 different homes, Michael's resilience and determination led him to Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 17, where he began to build a life for himself. Now, at 26, he stands as the first scholarship recipient of the Fostering the Future initiative by Melania Trump. This scholarship has led him to attend Oral Roberts University as a social work...2023-07-2747 minMagic HourS*an D. Henry-SmithWatch their film, Lunar New Year here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-07-2437 minThe Dad I Never HadFrom Foster Care to Fostering Change: Michael's Inspiring Journey Part 1Join us in this inspiring episode as we sit down with Michael Weitzman, who shares his remarkable journey from growing up in the foster care system in Los Angeles to becoming a self-taught software engineer and advocate for children.Navigating through 12 different homes, Michael's resilience and determination led him to Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the age of 17, where he began to build a life for himself. Now, at 26, he stands as the first scholarship recipient of the Fostering the Future initiative by Melania Trump. This scholarship has led him to attend Oral Roberts University as a social work...2023-07-2143 minMagic HourGiulia Zorzi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-06-2933 min
Court RadioCourt Radio: Healthcare with State Rep. Jordan Harris
On this episode of Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer speaks with State Representative Jordan Harris about the importance of mental health services.
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2023-06-0359 minTangleThe Daniel Penny charges.The Daniel Penny charges. Daniel Penny, who was seen putting Jordan Neely in a chokehold on a New York subway on May 1, was charged with second degree manslaughter on Thursday, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said. Penny could face as many as 15 years in prison. Shortly after turning himself in, he was released on a $100,000 bond. Penny did not enter a plea, as the charges will go before a grand jury who will decide whether or not to indict him. You can find our initial coverage of this story here.2023-05-1622 minTangleJordan Neely's death.Jordan Neely's death. On Monday afternoon, Neely was aboard a subway train in New York City when he began shouting at other passengers and "acting erratically," according to witnesses. Another passenger on the train, identified as 24-year-old Marine veteran Daniel Penny, came up behind Neely and put him in a chokehold, while two other passengers helped Penny restrain Neely. After several minutes of holding Neely on the ground, he stopped moving, at which point medics arrived and failed to revive him. New York City's medical examiner determined he had died from compression of the neck.2023-05-0823 minTangleMichael Morell's testimony.Michael Morell. Last week, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding more answers about the public letter signed by 51 intelligence operatives who dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as likely "Russian disinformation."We've covered the Hunter Biden laptop story several times in Tangle. You can find our previous coverage of that here, as well as coverage of the Twitter files here.You can read today's podcast here, the Blindspot report on the left here and on the right here, today’s “Under the...2023-04-2724 minMagic HourGenesis BaezIn 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.2022-12-2838 minMagic HourRahim FortuneA conversation with Rahim Fortune which took place at the New York Art Book Fair's Classroom program last month. Join host Jordan Weitzman as he talks to Fortune about his book, I can't stand to see you cry, published by Loose Joints. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-11-2353 minMagic HourBaldwin Lee Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-10-261h 03
Grit Daily Startup ShowEnd of Edge Computing? - Sam Weitzman - Pool ScoutPoolScout is the only system that can distinguish between toddlers, people and pets* in real-time. PoolScout constantly monitors your pool using advanced AI, generating reliable alerts based on severity level. In an emergency, it will help you respond within seconds.More Info: https://www.poolscout.co/Support the show: https://hype.co/@gritdailynewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2022-10-0615 minMagic HourGary SchneiderJordan Weitzman visits artist and master printer Gary Schneider at his home on Long Island to talk about his innovative work in portraiture, his legendary East Village photo lab, and his friendship with Peter Hujar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-03-0848 minMagic HourMatthew LeifheitA 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.2022-01-1237 minMagic HourLinda RosenkrantzPeter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz can be ordered at https://magichourphoto.org/books/peter-hujars-day Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-11-3027 minMagic HourTerri WeifenbachJordan 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.2021-10-1336 min
Magic HourBilly SullivanJordan Weitzman gets together with painter and photographer Billy Sullivan at his loft on the Bowery, where he's been living for over 40 years.Jordan also makes a special announcement about a new imprint that's been in the works for the past year - Magic Hour Press - and new books coming this fall by Ian Lewandowski and Linda Rosenkrantz.Visit www.magichourphoto.org to find out more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-07-2932 min
Magic HourDayanita SinghJordan 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.2021-05-1244 min
Magic HourStephen KochJordan Weitzman gets together with Stephen Koch for a special conversation about his work as an author, teacher and executor of the Peter Hujar Estate, which he's managed for over 30 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-03-2536 min
Magic HourShala MillerIt 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...2021-02-2256 min
Magic HourAnne TurynJordan Weitzman gets together with Anne Turyn to talk about Top Stories, the avant-garde periodical she published between 1978-1991. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-01-0636 minMagic HourMoyra DaveyWhile 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...2020-11-1647 min
Magic HourMichael MarcelleI have an interesting relationship to Mike Marcelle’s work. On the one hand, I totally get it, but on the other, i so don’t relate to where it comes from. I get the seeing, I feel the strength of the pictures, but his reference points feel so different than mine in a way. Like, for example, the new Suspiria would probably NOT come up in every conversation of mine, and with him, welll….. Process though - that’s another story. Hearing Mike speak about his way of making pictures, often involving ideas as starting points fo...2020-09-2822 min
Gensler Design ExchangeAn Architecture of Optimism in a Post-Pandemic Society: Jordan Goldstein @ UPennThis week on the Gensler Design Exchange podcast, Gensler’s Jordan Goldstein speaks with the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, moderated by Sarah Rottenberg, Adjunct Assistant Professor & Executive Director, Integrated Product Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. SHOW NOTES: bit.ly/genslerpod2020-07-0948 minGensler Design ExchangeAn Architecture of Optimism in a Post-Pandemic Society: Jordan Goldstein @ UPennThis week on the Gensler Design Exchange podcast, Gensler’s Jordan Goldstein speaks with the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, moderated by Sarah Rottenberg, Adjunct Assistant Professor & Executive Director, Integrated Product Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. SHOW NOTES: bit.ly/genslerpod2020-07-0948 min
Blog | MyPhillyLawyerCourt Radio: Are you Covered? What You Should Know Before Using Lyft Ride Share for Your Next TripOn this episode of Court Radio, Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer talks about how Lyft is no longer offering uninsured/underinsured motorist protections for its passengers. Also, Rep. Jordan Harris discusses Lyft from a legislative perspective and answer listener questions regarding national, city and state issues.The post Court Radio: Are you Covered? What You Should Know Before Using Lyft Ride Share for Your Next Trip first appeared on MyPhillyLawyer.2020-06-1458 min
Magic HourMary ManningOn 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...2020-05-2136 minMagic HourDrew SawyerJust before the world went into Covid-19 lockdown, I got together with Drew Sawyer at his apartment in the Bedstuy. He’s the photo Curator at the Brooklyn Museum, and among the numerous exhibitions he’s worked on in his current and previous posts at MoMa and the Columbus Museum of Art, he recently gave the Russian Ghanian photographer Liz Johnson Artur her first solo museum exhibition, resurrected the color work of Gary Winogrand and put together an incredible survey of queer work in the past 50 years in Art After Stonewall. Drew earned his Ph.D in art history and archeology a...2020-04-2139 min
Magic HourElliott Jerome Brown Jr.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 d...2020-03-1145 min
Magic HourVince AlettiVince Aletti has been writing and reporting on culture for over 50 years. He was the first person to write about disco for Rolling Stone in the early 70’s, he worked as a senior-editor for the Village Voice for over twenty years and was the photo critic for the New Yorker until 2016. In this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with Aletti at his storied, book and art filled east village apartment to talk about it all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-02-0341 min
Magic HourCarmen WinantJust last weekend, a piece of Carmen’s - a portrait in multiple images of Toni Morrisson was featured on the last cover of the New York Times Magazine of the decade. The culmination of an eventful past couple of years for Carmen, she released two new books - Notes on Fundamental Joy with Printed Matter and My Birth with SPBH Editions. That book accompanied her show of the same name in MoMa’s New Photography in 2018. In that powerful installation, she used two facing walls to tape up over 2000 found photographs of women giving birth.Wina...2020-01-0842 min
Magic HourAllen FrameJordan Weitzman sits down with photographer Allen Frame at his home and talk about everything from his early days in Boston with Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, to where his sense of space in his photographs comes from. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2019-11-2651 min
Magic HourPatrice Aphrodite HelmarI remember the first time I met Patrice Aphrodite Helmar. It was around this time in 2017, and a friend asked if I wanted to go and check out the Backyard Biennial that she was putting on at her place in Ridgewood. A self-initiated curatorial effort, she showcased the work of emerging and established photographers alike. There was food and drinks, a slideshow going, and prints untraditionally arranged within the orange walls of her backyard. As we walked in to her ground floor apartment, she greeted and hugged us as if we were old friends. I remember we talked about...2019-10-1637 min
Magic HourMatt GrubbMatt Grubb is sitting in his car in the parking lot outside his favourite movie theatre in Queens, sipping a Diet Coke. As we're coordinating a time to meet for this interview, he tells me that he’s about to go see the new Avengers movie for the third time. It had just come out two weeks ago….I’m amazed and laughing to myself just thinking how much i love that compulsion. I think that same kind of curiosity and passion goes into his work and is one of the reason’s he’s such a brilliant image maker. His...2019-09-1744 min
Magic HourBruno CeschelIn 2010, with a feeling that the traditional publishing industry was not going to last, Bruno Ceschel founded Self Publish Be Happy, an initiative to support and promote the work of emerging photographers. Originally, it functioned as a platform for artists making DIY Books and Zines, but eventually would become more expansive, getting involved in educational activities, the curation of exhibitions and events, and with their own publishing initiative. Through its imprint SPBH editions, Ceschel has published books by Carmen Winant, Lorenzo Vitturi, Nicholas Muelner, Peter Puklus and Chritina de Middel to name a few.2019-08-2843 min
Magic HourEpisode 32 | Paul Mpagi SepuyaI went to go visit Paul Mpagi Sepuya on a cool day this past winter at his studio in the Boyle Heights area of LA. In one room, test prints, book mockups His desk and a big printer filled the space. In the other, a Russian plywood bench, a big mirror on the wall, a velvet curtain hanging and a camera on a tripod. He suggested we do the interview in that room, the set where many of his photos have been made, and maybe somehow, maybe the setting would provoke more interesting conversation. The items in that room...2019-07-1138 min
Magic HourJeff BurtonIt seems to me like the more dramatic the subject matter a photographer takes on, the more difficult their job becomes. When what is in front of the camera has so much visual appeal already, how do you make pictures that are more interesting than the event?Jeff Burton’s pictures are such a great example of how brilliantly someone has dealt with that problem. His work, much of which was made on gay adult film sets in LA, rarely just documents what is in front of him, but rather uses that material to construct his ow...2019-06-1446 min
Magic HourJo Ann CallisJo Ann Callis’ photographs have such an uncanny strangeness to them. They often feel like they could be stills out of a David Lynch film, but she was making them long before Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive came to be.She was born in Cincinnati and pursued her interest in art at Ohio State University, though her eduction was interrupted by marriage, moving our to LA and having kids. These challenges, though, would end up becoming a big part of her subject matter. She’s always been interested in the domestic, the body , femininity and sexuality but...2019-05-2133 min
Magic HourMark McKnightThere is so much soul in Mark McKnight's dark, complex, psychological photographs, whether he's photographing the bodies of men he’s attracted to, still lives or landscapes, all which have a distinct relationship to one another.Just last week, Mark was awarded the very prestigious Aperture Portfolio Prize. I encourage you to go and read Brendan Embser’s write-up on Aperture’s site because he really hits the nail on the head with Marks work and introduces it so beautifully. Embser says:“ Mark McKnight is a modern-day modernist. His black-and-white photographs of skin and sand, br...2019-04-3043 min
Magic HourMarcelo Gabriel YanezI first heard of Marcelo Yanez through a mutual friend, Bryson Rand, when he took out this tabloid format publication called Newspaper to show me. In Bryson’s usual humility, he didn’t even mention the photo of his that graced the cover, but Instead, wanted to show me other work inside that he was excited about, and especially about who put this all together.At 19 years old, Marcelo Yanez took on a project. He had discovered a publication from the early 70’s called Newspaper that featured the work of photographers in the downtown New York scene. He fel...2019-03-2728 min
Magic HourSusan MeiselasI got to Susan Meiselas’ Mott street studio a few minutes early and one of her assistants let me in to set up my gear. As I was waiting for her to arrive, I was leafing through a worn out first edition of Carnival Strippers, thinking to myself nervously, in that bout of anxiety before an interview - what are we going to even talk about that she’s gonna find interesting? The door clicked open she flew into the basement studio apologizing for a Magnum Foundation meeting running a few minutes late. She asked one of her assistants to p...2019-02-2841 min
Tablet StudiosSeeing Stars This week on Unorthodox, we'd like to thank the Academy... and our three Jewish guests!First we get glammed up with shoe designer Stuart Weitzman, who tells us about getting his big break when Aretha Franklin wore his shoes to the 1983 American Music Awards, and how he made red carpet history when he designed $1 million shoes for Mulholland Drive actress Laura Harring to wear to the 2002 Oscars. Since then, the 'shoe cam' has become a standard feature of award shoe red carpets.Then film critic Jordan Hoffman returns to the show to tell us what t...2019-02-211h 03
Magic HourMary FreyIn the past two years, Mary Frey put out two new books - Reading Raymond Carver and Real Life Dramas. The first is made up of black and white work and the other, all color. Both bodies of work are in and around 35 years old and these were Frey’s first major publications of them. It wasn’t exactly as if she was unknown until now though. In fact, almost the inverse. She’s been a cult hero in photography circles for years and a beloved teacher at Hartford’s graduate program, where she taught until 2015.Frey ear...2019-01-2545 min
Magic HourRory MulliganNot gunna lie, i had a pretty big art crush on Rory Mulligan long before i met him to talk about his work for this show. I remember first discovering his work on the J&L Books website in the special edition section. They had published a small book of his work in an edition of 10 called Freddie. You couldn’t find it anywhere, but there were enough pictures on the site to get a feel for what he was up to. But I remember thinking to myself - what exactly was he up to?There wa...2018-12-2241 min
Magic HourJack WoodyI think I first came across Jack Woody’s name after buying a Duane Michals called Album years ago. I remember thinking that it was so elegant, so beautifully printed and layed out, that I was curious who was behind it. I remember mentioning that book the first time I met Duane, and he told me that there was this hotel in San Francisco who bought the book and cut out and framed the prints they were so gorgeous.That gravure process that Jack Woody tracked down and began to use became one of the signatures of...2018-11-1348 min
Magic HourFarah Al QasimiLast month, I went to visit Farah Al Qasimi at her home and studio in Williamsburg. After talking with her, I thought about her space and how both her studio and her living area represented different parts of her in a way. Both very smart, both refined, but in different ways - the living space had an elegance and a lightness to it, while the studio had a sense of humour and playfulness. I took it a step further and then thought about how those rooms also reflect the different ways she photographs men and women, which we'll get...2018-10-0942 min
Magic HourHugh EdwardsIn 1972, more than a decade after I had taken up photography in earnest, I returned to Hyde Park to visit with Hugh Edwards. By then Edwards had retired from his position as Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago and was teaching a night course in the history of photography at the School of the Art Institute. Because Hugh Edwards did not like to be photographed, there aren't many photograps of him. He also didn't want to be filmed or tape-recorded—claiming, in his words, that he did not want to be "etched in co...2018-08-081h 08
Magic HourDanny LyonDanny Lyon is a living legend in photography. Born in 1942 to a Russian-Jewish mother and German-Jewish father, he grew up in Kew Gardens, Queens and went on to study history and philosophy at the University of Chicago. Beginning in the early 1960’s while in his early twenties, he was drawn to the civil rights movement in the south which he immersed himself in and documented. He became lifelong friends with Julian Bond and congressman John Lewis, whom he lived with in an apartment in Atlanta. He was in jail with Martin Luther King, jr. During that decade, he also be...2018-06-2053 min
Magic HourJohn EdmondsA friend recently told me that John Edmonds pictures of african American men in Do-Rags were the first photo's that had the power to completely change his perception. It reminded me of something which Dorothea Lange said, which was, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”One can speak of Edmonds depictions of queer black masculinity in terms of their content and politics, but none of that would be transmittable if the photos themselves were’t so sensual, strikingly beautiful and full of mystery.John earned his MFA from Y...2018-05-1541 min
Magic HourRosalind Fox SolomonIt was a true honour to meet with Rosalind Fox Solomon, just a few days shy of her 88th birthday. It’s often noted how she came to photography later than most when she was close to 40, but i couldn’t help think more about how long she’s kept it up for. How long she’s stuck with it. In her 80’s, she has has continued to make photographs, and strong ones at that. When we met, she served black coffee and showed me her old darkroom. The way in which she printed was always of great impor...2018-04-1942 min
Magic HourErin Jane NelsonFor the past little while, Atlanta based artist Erin Jane Nelson has been travelling to barrier islands, monuments and sites relating to climate change to make photographs. Her pictures, though, serve as her starting points to what become elements in her mixed media work. Its most recent incarnation is in both ceramic and tapestry, which is being shown at the Whitney this month in a group show called Between the Waters. Aside from her own artistic practice, Nelson is a curatorial assistant at the High Museum in Atlanta in both the Photography and Folk art departments. She re...2018-03-1237 min
Magic HourGus PowellIn this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with Gus Powell at his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Powell is the author of two monographs, The Company of Strangers (J&L Books) and The Lonely Ones (J&L Books), and is currently at work on his third, Family Car Trouble. His work has been exhibited internationally at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of the City of New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and FOAM in Amsterdam. His photographs have been published in Aperture, Harpers and Vogue to name a few, and he is a regular...2018-02-0552 min
Magic HourSiobhán BohnackerJordan Weitzman goes behind the scenes with Siobhán Bohnacker, senior photo editor at the New Yorker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2018-01-0853 min
Magic HourElle Pérez"How do you make a good portrait of someone?" Jordan Weitzman asks Elle Perez. "You love them." Listen to their conversation to hear about their work as a photographer and educator. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-10-2348 min
Magic HourIan LewandowskiIan Lewandowski gets together with Jordan Weitzman in Montreal to talk about his work steeped portraiture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-09-2136 min
Magic HourEpisode 13 | Teju ColeCelebrated author, critic and photographer talks to Jordan Weitzman about his work as a critic, writing On Photogrpahy for the New York Times, and his new book of photos and Text, Blind Spot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-07-0738 min
Magic HourMark SteinmetzJordan Weitzman visits Mark Steinmetz at his home in Athens, Georgia to talk about his work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-05-0441 min
Magic HourBryson RandJordan Weitzman sits down with photographer Bryson Rand at his home in Bushwick in to talk about his work Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-04-0745 min
Magic HourJustine KurlandJustine Kurland talks about her new book with Aperture, Highway Kind, comprised of pictures that she took while making cross country road trip with her young son, Casper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-03-0837 min
Magic HourSusan LipperJordan Weitzman sits down with Susan Lipper to talk about her books Grapevine, Trip, and her forthcoming, Domesticated Lands, with Mack Books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2017-02-0838 min
Magic HourAlec SothPhotographer Alec Soth recently had a revelation that has been changing how he's thinking about both his work and life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-12-2843 min
Magic HourTim DavisJordan Weitzman meets Tim Davis at his studio in Tivoli, NY to discuss his practice as a photographer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-12-071h 00
Magic HourGregory HalpernGregory Halpern talks with Jordan Weitzman about his development as a photographer and the thinking behind his work and his new book, ZZYZX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-10-2742 min
Magic HourJohn GossageIn this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with photographer John Gossage at his home in Washington DC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-09-2847 min
Magic HourDavid Alan HarveyIn this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey at his beachside home in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-08-1946 min
Magic HourJason FulfordIn this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with photographer, author and publisher Jason Fulford at his home and studio in Scranton, PA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-07-2742 min
Magic HourMelissa Catanese & Ed PanarIn this episode, Pittsburgh based photographers Melissa Catanese & Ed Panar sit down with Jordan Weitzman at Spaces Corners, their bookstore and gallery storefront dedicated to the photo book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-07-0643 min
Magic HourDuane MichalsIn this episode, photographer Duane Michals talks to Jordan about his early days as he grew into photography and the distinct style he developed over the course of his career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-06-1542 min
Magic HourMagic Hour TeaserConversations on photography. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2016-06-0801 min