Robert Frank Interview

Found this Robert Frank interview recently on the web. It was recorded January 22, 2009, and of course the bulk of the conversation is about The Americans. But he also touches on Pull My Daisy, CS Blues and bits of this and that.

Now: can someone tell me what he's referring to when he says, "Which was a mistake, just a mistake."



Robert Frank : interview
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Ferdinando Scianna

One thing fun about doing this blog was researching various aspects of the items I was posting. I no longer have the time to do that. I do have quite a bit of ephemera scanned and ready to post though.

I'll continue posting but any background information that I include will have to be from memory.

Which means most of it will be wrong.

Ferdinando Scianna is a Magnum photographer.

Ad from The New Yorker, February 20 - 27, 1995, with an ad photographed by Scianna.

Ad from Vanity Fair, February, 2001, with a background photograph by Scianna.

About ten years ago or so, there was an ad campaign for Bravo, "the number one paper from Domtar." The design studio hired to do the campaign was Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios. It was pretty extensive including full page ads in Print and other design publications, post card mailings and large brochures (10.5 x 14 inch, 16 pages plus die-cut cover.) To promote the printing capacity of the paper, they used the work of Magnum photographers for reproductions. The brochures are particularly nice, being so large, and featuring the work of one photographer: Bruno Barbey, Antonin Kratochvil, Alex Webb, Larry Towell and Steve McCurry are five that I know of that were featured in these oversized brochures.

Here are four of the postcards from the campaign with photographs by Scianna. Each is 7 x 5.75 inches.

Landscapes: With and Without Figures

PETER BRANDES
D.C.A. Gallery, NYC
2001

LARRY BURROWS
Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
1998

Stiff card stock, 9 x 3.75 inches, blank back

LYNNE COHEN
P.P.O.W., NYC
2000

Stiff card stock, 6.25 x 5.25 inches

LUCIEN HERVÉ
Michael Hoppen Photography, UK
nd

Stiff card stock, 4 x 5.75 inches

TODD HIDO
Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
2000

Stiff card stock, 5 x 7 inches

PAUL HIMMEL
Keith de Lellis Gallery, NYC
2003

Stiff card stock, 10 x 7 inches, folded once vertically

JOHN HINDE
Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, NYC
2005

Stiff card stock, 6 x 4.25 inches

RUTH THORNE-THOMSEN
Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
2001

Stiff card stock, 9 x 3.75 inches, blank back

GEORGE TICE
Sandra Berler, Chevy Chase, MD
2000

Thin card stock, 6 x 4.25 inches

LARRY TOWELL
Leica Gallery, NYC
2001

Thin card stock, 16.5 x 5.5 inches, folded once vertically

WYNN BULLOCK
Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
2002

Stiff card stock, 9 x 3.75 inches, blank back

Imogen Cunningham

The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County
1984

Stiff, card stock; 8 x 8 inches

Back

Stiff, card stock; 16 inches wide by 8 inches folded once vertically
to produce an 8 x 8 inch exhibition checklist

Open

Back

The Halstad Gallery
Birmingham, MI
2002

Stiff card stock; 8 x 5 inches

Swann Galleries, NYC

Stiff card stock; 6 x 9 inches folded once horizontally to produce a 6 x 4.5 inch notecard
(The inside is blank)

Self-portraits

1910

1913

1932

1933

1958

1974

Henri Cartier-Bresson shoots color for Holiday Magazine

These were shot in the early 1950s on assignment for Holiday Magazine but as with the Robert Capa post, I'm not sure the date of the issues. The first three images are from a chapter entitled "The Low Countries."







The rest of the images are from "The Iberian Peninsula."






The lower left image is by Cartier-Bresson. Top left and lower right: Duncan Edwards; Top center: Arnold Newman; Top right: Slim Aarons; Bottom center: Alexander Wainman.