Ideas Are The (Elusive) Gold That Needs Mining

Harvey Stein is a documentary portrait photographer having photographed the people of Coney Island for over 50 years. He's published, he's known and his work is collected. In the photographer world, he's a made man. He may not be a household name with Tom Cruise-like fame, but he's known among his peers, the best kind...

Joel, Yes, We Know…

Sometimes, I write about my pet peeves. And because I have this writing space, I get to. So here goes. I listen to a lot of photography podcasts. There are some terrific ones out there, but the one question that gets asked to everyone, the one that drives me crazy, is, "Tell us how you...

Mr. Rogers, Mary Ellen Mark and Me

I was listening to a really good podcast today called Finding Fred, which is about the way Fred Rogers made his show back in the 1960s. And on The Candid Frame podcast, Mary Ellen Mark was interviewed by Ibarionex Perello. Both are people I can relate to because both did things the way they did...

Photographer Duane Michals Tells It Like He Sees It

Here's a terrific interview with a most original photographer, Duane Michals. He's funny when he calls Garry Winogrand a hack. (Winogrand famously walked out of Duane's first gallery show saying, "Come on, let's go, this isn't photography.") At 88, Michals doesn't hold anything back. He really know what he wants as a photographer and artist...