Alex Matzke devotes her photography to the lives and stories of young women, farmers, Tribal Nations and refugees. Listen in as we talk about her early days making Polaroids with her mother, her pictures of women in the military, and her work over the last several years documenting opposition to the Keystone-XL Pipeline. This episode is brought to …

I visited with Mitch Epstein to talk about his days as a student making pictures in New York City, studying with Garry Winogrand, and setting out across the US in an orange Datsun his father won in a raffle. We also discussed his time working on films in India and his projects Family Business, American Power, New York Arbor and his latest work Rock…

Lois Conner has been traveling the world with her 7x17 view camera for more than 30 years. Listen in as we discuss her early travels in the American West, working for the United Nations and making pictures in China. We also discuss her time with mentors like Philippe Halsman and Richard Benson and her recent work with the iPhone. Her most recent bo…

On the show this week it’s Andrea Modica. Andrea fell in love with the 8x10 view camera as a teenager and hasn’t looked back. It’s been a constant in her personal work for long-term projects and commissioned work alike. We met up in Philadelphia to discuss her study of photography and the mentors who shaped her along the way, her time teaching at S…

My guest this week in photographer Matt Eich. We met up to talk about his work photographing the Southern United States and Appalachia, his time as a graduate student in the Hartford Art School’s International Limited-Residency Program and his life as a dad and family man. Not to mention alligator hunters Rebel and Julius in Shell Island, Louisiana…

This week on the Halftone you’ll hear my talk with Thomas Roma! Tune in for big discussions of photography, Wall Street, a car crash, carpentry, building cameras and Roma’s new publishing imprint SPQR Editions! Not to mention his time with Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Walker Evans and playing poker with Helen Levitt a…

On the show this week my guest is Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the photography department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. I recently visited with her at the National Gallery to talk about her early love of photography, years spent researching the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and organizing the exhibition, Looking…

On the show this week my guest is photographer Christian Patterson. I recently visited his Brooklyn studio to talk about his start in photography, his time working with Winston and William Eggleston, his break-out work Redheaded Peckerwood and his latest project and show at Festival Images in Vevey, Switzerland Gong Co! This episode of the Halftone…

This week on the Halftone my guest is Darius Himes. Over the course of his career Himes has been an editor of the photo-eye booklist, a director of Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and co-founder of photography imprint Radius Books. With Mary Virginia Swanson he is the co-author of Publish Your Photography Book, published in 2011 by Princeton Arch…

Photographer Adam Bellefeuil is a photographer and family man who makes his living as a video game designer. We met up at his home in Carey, North Carolina to talk about his career in video game design and his start in photography. We also discuss his series of night-time landscape pictures Black Basin and the work he has recently been making near …

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On the show this week I’m joined by publisher and photographer Paul Schiek. Schiek is the founder of the photobook publishing outfit TBW Books and over the past ten years he has released titles with many enduring artists including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg and Katy Grannan as well as break-out young photographers like Mike Brodie an…

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Leslie Williamson joins us today on the Halftone! We recently met up in San Francisco to talk about growing up in the Bay Area, photographing brain surgery and her love of midcentury design. Over the past few years Leslie has published two wonderful books which showcase designers’ homes from around the world: Handcrafted Modern and Modern Originals…

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My guest this week is photography curator Sandra Phillips from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Listen in as we talk about her start in New York, hanging around the Museum of Modern Art in New York as a young woman and her move to SFMOMA. We also talk about some of her work with greats like Andre Kertesz, John Szarkowski and Robert Adams as …

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Doug DuBois. Charlottesville, Virginia. 2016. Doug DuBois joins me for today’s episode of the Halftone! Listen in as we discuss Doug’s discovery of photography, his working relationships with Jerome Liebling, Larry Sultan and Mitch Epstein as well as his long-term book project All the Days and Nights and his newest book My Last Day at Seventeen. To…

In this BEEFY historical episode Marth and Eric discuss one of the crueler men in human history. Buckle Up.By Underrated Retro

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Alec Soth. Charlottesville, Virginia. 2015. My guest this week is Alec Soth. We met up to talk about his early days in Minnesota, how Prince bought his childhood home, studies at Sarah Lawrence and the travels behind bodies of work like Sleeping By the Mississippi, Niagara and Songbook. To see Soth’s photographs you can visit his website. And you c…

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Thomas Palmer and Lee Friedlander. East Greenwich, RI. 2015. For more than thirty years Thomas Palmer has been making printing separations for books. His credits include work by Lee Friedlander, Nicholas Nixon, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and many others. In spring of 2015 I visited Palmer at his home in Newport, Rhode Is…

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Jon Goodman. Northampton, Massachusetts, 2015 As a young man Jon Goodman set out from the United States for Europe to learn photogravure printing. At the time of his journey in the mid-1970s the practice of making flat plate gravures had all but disappeared. After years of travel and trials in Europe and the United States, Goodman began printing wo…

In this episode Marth and Eric discuss an android drummer, living with your parents and estate sales. Plus, Marth and Eric debut a song from their band!By Underrated Retro

Last spring I traveled to New England to visit with a few of the printers behind some of my favorite photobooks. Robert Hennessey makes printing separations for books and his work is behind many great photography books that have been published over the last several decades. His separation work appears in titles by Paul Strand, Helen Levitt, Robert …

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Bryan Schutmaat. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2014. For the past several years Bryan Schutmaat has been making photographs around small mountain towns in the American West. We recently met up in Philadelphia to talk about his Texas upbringing, ditch-surfing, his early work in photography and his recent book Grays the Mountain Sends. To have a look …

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In this episode Marth and Eric discuss Mike Tyson, crazy old people and ISIS. This episode of the Marth and Eric Podcast is sponsored by K & N air filters and by Audible.com!By Underrated Retro

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