Palm Springs Photo Festival Podcast # SEVEN
Palm Springs Photo Festival Podcast
Release Date: 06/09/2020
PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #27: Steve McCurry
Palm Springs Photo Festival Podcast
In our 27th podcast, 48th conversation we chat with photographer Steve McCurry - world famous author of 27 books and recipient of countless prestigious awards. Steve and host Jeff Dunas talk about what it's like to work in the streets with very little gear and only one translator or driver to rock his immediately identifiable images. He talks about how he started, being smuggled into Afghanistan early in his career, Magnum, how to avoid smiles, his teen years fascinated by cars, drugs and girls and most surprising of all, his big, outsized McCurry-esque plans for his...
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #26: Howard Schatz
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For a serious photographer, listening to Howard Schatz is like reading a good book you can’t put down. He’s truly a one-off, one-of-a-kind, unique and inspiring individual. Listening to him is like a textbook in how to channel your passion into excellence, be productive, find motivation to create important work and get it out into the world. Intensely curious, knowledgeable and gifted to be sure. In this podcast he demystifies how he arrived at his decision to go from highly respected ophthalmologic surgeon in his early fifties to become one of the most widely published & admired...
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #25: Gregory Heisler
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Greg Heisler, one of the top commercial portrait photographers in the United States for over 35 years, has made over 70 covers for Time Magazine. In a very entertaining conversation, Greg talks about working for the one & only Arnold Newman as his second assistant job and how naivety and persistence, plus his one suit and tie got him the job; photographing both Mayor Guiliani (standing on the edge of a sky-scraper) and Mayor Bloomberg, standing in a tree); his keen observations about looking forward (analog) and backward (digital); a famous deli in NYC, his advice for keeping it...
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #24, Conversation 43: Photographer Joel Meyerowitz
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Listen to Legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz talk about his life and career, friends Gary Winogrand, Tony Ray Jones and Lee Friedlander, looking at the street, the importance of the Bronx, his Robert Frank epiphany, how baseball trained him for street photography, getting away with murder on the streets, the importance of scale, his promise to his audience, it's not too late for fashion, the mystery of his 8x10 Deardorf, the best part of his days in Tuscany and more.
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #23, Conversation 42: Photographer Lindsay Adler
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Photographer Lindsay Adler “started her business” at 15 years-old. She talks about how she conquered NYC, taught herself lighting techniques, thought she was a fashion photographer but came to see the world of beauty photography was more her thing, muses on what it means to be an outlier, why being active on multiple social media platforms seems completely natural, why photography is her business as well as her profession and her new focussing spot light.
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #22, Conversation 41: Photographer Doug Menuez
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Doug Menuez, photojournalist, gonzo photographer, epic raconteur, bluesman and educator talks about his career choices and the ideas and events that led him to document the birth through maturity of Silicon Valley including his breakthrough introduction to Steve Jobs and all the other first-generation founders of the digital age plus the million + images he made there that now reside in the Library of Stanford University.
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #21, Two-part Conversation 40: David Hume Kennerly: Part TWO.
Palm Springs Photo Festival Podcast
Photojournalist, political wire photographer & Pulitzer prize-winner David Hume Kennerly has been in the room with his cameras when nearly every major American political event in the latter 20th and 21st centuries took place. White House photographer under Gerald Ford, he's photographed every president since LBJ and most world leaders in his 50+ year career. His often irreverent humor permeates his remembrances and descriptions of the circumstances that led to his greatest photographs. Not to be missed.
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #20, Two-part Conversation 40: David Hume Kennerly: Part ONE.
Palm Springs Photo Festival Podcast
Photojournalist, political wire photographer & Pulitzer prize-winner David Hume Kennerly has been in the room when nearly every major American political event in the latter 20th and 21st centuries took place. White House photographer under Gerald Ford, he's photographed every president since LBJ and most world leaders in his 50+ year career. His often irreverent humor permeates his stories of the circumstances that led to his greatest photographs in this podcast. Not to be missed. Parts I & II available.
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #19, Conversation 38
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Fine art star Mona Kuhn Talks about her meteoric rise, what keeps here there, her early years and her remarkable process. Her relationships with her subjects, the difficulties she deals with on the web and reveals her wonderful approach to life that informs her work. Nudes represent a difficult subject yet Kuhn has found her voice and her seat at the table.
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PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL PODCAST #18, Conversation 37
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Photojournalist Barbara Davidson, 3-time Pulitzer and Emmy winning Guggenheim Fellow talks to PSPF about her early years as a self-described hellion in Montreal, her captivity in Croatia, her heroes and her jobs for leading US news media over a 20-year career. Her comments on her process illuminate how she’s risen from modest beginnings to the top of a male-dominated field to be amongst the most recognized practitioners in the world.
info_outlineOur 6th podcast contains in-depth conversations between Director Jeff Dunas and Fashion and Beauty Photographer Miranda Penn Turin who reveals her breakout realization & her recommendations for the early part of your career; Father of Digital Printing Mac Holbert gives a mini class in color management and tells many a great story about his time with Crosby Stills & Nash and later, Nash Editions. Also Fujifilm's Senior Manager for Product Development, Justin Stailey talks about the great new generation of Fujifilm camera systems and reveals what it's like in secret meetings at Fujifilm.