Magic Hour

A 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.

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Jordan 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.

A 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.

Peter 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.

Jordan 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.

Jordan 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.

Jordan 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.

Jordan 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.

It 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, which she makes under the name Freddie June. As I’ve gotten more and more into her work, I’ve discovered that It’s the tapestry of it all that makes it so compelling and rich. Shala is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, studied at SAIC in Chicago and École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris before pursuing her MFA at Bard. She currently lives and works in New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jordan 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.

While 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 simple elegance of it which is a through line in all her work from the writing to the films to the mailers.“I’m trying to write in the forms of the work I want to read” she writes in her title essay of her recent book Index Cards published by New Directions. That seems like such a simple and easy thing to do, but it’s really the most challenging place to get to.Moyra was born in Toronto in 1958, grew up in Montreal and lives in New York now, where she’s been for some 30 years.She is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and just last month, she opened a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I 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 for photos i totally get. In his case, he jots them down in a several year long email to himself that he replies to over and over. Those ideas, though, are just to get off the couch, to try something out, to roam around and find things. The photos that he makes are always completely different and unexpected. Mike grew up in New Jersey where he recently made photos of his family which ended up in his book Kokomo, published with Matte in 2018. In Gregory Crewdson’s essay in the book, he says that Marcelle's photographs employ various conventions of the beloved horror and B-movies of his youth - self-consciously low-end special effects and garish, technicolor lighting - the materials of the domestic and familial are reconfigured into an uncanny, alien world. We conducted this interview remotely, i in Montreal, and Mike at his home in upstate New York that he shares with his husband Danny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just 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 at Columbia University, where his dissertation was a critical re-examination of Walker Evans.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.