Magic Hour
96 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 154 ratingsA conversation series on photography where host Jordan Weitzman sits down with emerging and established photographers, publishers and editors to discuss their work.
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Olivian Cha
December 19, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutes - 344 MBJordan Weitzman gets together with archivist Olivian Cha to talk about her work with Corita's photographic archive at the Corita Art Centre in LA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Roxana Marcoci
November 17, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 513 MBJordan Weitzman visits curator Roxana Marcoci at MoMA to talk about her most recent exhibition, a survey show of An-My Lê's work. Marcoci is the David Dechman senior curator and acting chief curator of the department of photography at the museum, where she has been working since 1999. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S*an D. Henry-Smith
July 24, 2023 11:55 - 37 minutes - 85.9 MBWatch their film, Lunar New Year here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Giulia Zorzi
June 29, 2023 12:00 - 33 minutes - 77.6 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Genesis Baez
December 28, 2022 14:00 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBIn our last episode of the year, Jordan Weitzman gets together with artist Genesis Baez for a generous conversation about her work and upcoming book with Capricious. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rahim Fortune
November 23, 2022 15:00 - 53 minutes - 61.2 MBA 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.
Baldwin Lee
October 26, 2022 08:31 - 1 hour - 87 MBHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gary Schneider
March 08, 2022 13:23 - 48 minutes - 66 MBJordan 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.
Matthew Leifheit
January 12, 2022 14:03 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBA 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.
Linda Rosenkrantz
November 30, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBPeter 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.
Terri Weifenbach
October 13, 2021 13:07 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBJordan 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.
Billy Sullivan
July 29, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBJordan 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.
Dayanita Singh
May 12, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBJordan 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.
Stephen Koch
March 25, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 50.3 MBJordan 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.
Shala Miller
February 22, 2021 12:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MBIt 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 ...
Anne Turyn
January 06, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBJordan 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.
Moyra Davey
November 16, 2020 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBWhile 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 ...
Michael Marcelle
September 28, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 30.8 MBI 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 involv...
Mary Manning
May 21, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBOn 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 (...
Drew Sawyer
April 21, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBJust 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...
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
March 11, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBOn the chair next to me sat a worn out copy of Toni Morrisson’s Beloved, a favorite which Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. told me he’s read at least three times. We were sitting at the kitchen table in the apartment which he’s been living at in Flushing, Queens, on the upstairs floor of a yellow and burgundy house museum dedicated to the work of Louis Ladimer. Ladimer was the inventor of the carbon-filament light bulb, an addendum and improvement to Thomas Edison’s original lightbulb. So the photogr...
Vince Aletti
February 03, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBVince Aletti has been writing and reporting on culture for over 50 years. He was the first person to write about disco for Rolling Stone in the early 70’s, he worked as a senior-editor for the Village Voice for over twenty years and was the photo critic for the New Yorker until 2016. In this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with Aletti at his storied, book and art filled east village apartment to talk about it all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 37 | Carmen Winant
January 08, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBJust last weekend, a piece of Carmen’s - a portrait in multiple images of Toni Morrisson was featured on the last cover of the New York Times Magazine of the decade. The culmination of an eventful past couple of years for Carmen, she released two new books - Notes on Fundamental Joy with Printed Matter and My Birth with SPBH Editions. That book accompanied her show of the same name in MoMa’s New Photography in 2018. In that powerful installation, she used two facing walls to tape up over 200...
Carmen Winant
January 08, 2020 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBJust last weekend, a piece of Carmen’s - a portrait in multiple images of Toni Morrisson was featured on the last cover of the New York Times Magazine of the decade. The culmination of an eventful past couple of years for Carmen, she released two new books - Notes on Fundamental Joy with Printed Matter and My Birth with SPBH Editions. That book accompanied her show of the same name in MoMa’s New Photography in 2018. In that powerful installation, she used two facing walls to tape up over 200...
Episode 36 | Allen Frame
November 26, 2019 12:00 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBJordan Weitzman sits down with photographer Allen Frame at his home and talk about everything from his early days in Boston with Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, to where his sense of space in his photographs comes from. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Allen Frame
November 26, 2019 12:00 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBJordan Weitzman sits down with photographer Allen Frame at his home and talk about everything from his early days in Boston with Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, to where his sense of space in his photographs comes from. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Patrice Aphrodite Helmar
October 16, 2019 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBI remember the first time I met Patrice Aphrodite Helmar. It was around this time in 2017, and a friend asked if I wanted to go and check out the Backyard Biennial that she was putting on at her place in Ridgewood. A self-initiated curatorial effort, she showcased the work of emerging and established photographers alike. There was food and drinks, a slideshow going, and prints untraditionally arranged within the orange walls of her backyard. As we walked in to her ground floor apartment, she...
Episode 35 | Patrice Aphrodite Helmar
October 16, 2019 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBI remember the first time I met Patrice Aphrodite Helmar. It was around this time in 2017, and a friend asked if I wanted to go and check out the Backyard Biennial that she was putting on at her place in Ridgewood. A self-initiated curatorial effort, she showcased the work of emerging and established photographers alike. There was food and drinks, a slideshow going, and prints untraditionally arranged within the orange walls of her backyard. As we walked in to her ground floor apartment, she...
Matt Grubb
September 17, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBMatt Grubb is sitting in his car in the parking lot outside his favourite movie theatre in Queens, sipping a Diet Coke. As we're coordinating a time to meet for this interview, he tells me that he’s about to go see the new Avengers movie for the third time. It had just come out two weeks ago….I’m amazed and laughing to myself just thinking how much i love that compulsion. I think that same kind of curiosity and passion goes into his work and is one of the reason’s he’s such a brilliant image...
Episode 34 | Matt Grubb
September 17, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBMatt Grubb is sitting in his car in the parking lot outside his favourite movie theatre in Queens, sipping a Diet Coke. As we're coordinating a time to meet for this interview, he tells me that he’s about to go see the new Avengers movie for the third time. It had just come out two weeks ago….I’m amazed and laughing to myself just thinking how much i love that compulsion. I think that same kind of curiosity and passion goes into his work and is one of the reason’s he’s such a brilliant image...
Episode 33 | Bruno Ceschel
August 28, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBRecorded in: London, UK Episode Length: 43:09 Air Date: August 27, 2019 Produced by: Jordan Weitzman Edited by: Cristal Duhaime In 2010, with a feeling that the traditional publishing industry was not going to last, Bruno Ceschel founded Self Publish Be Happy, an initiative to support and promote the work of emerging photographers. Originally, it functioned as a platform for artists making DIY Books and Zines, but eventually would become more expansive, getting involved in educational acti...
Bruno Ceschel
August 28, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBIn 2010, with a feeling that the traditional publishing industry was not going to last, Bruno Ceschel founded Self Publish Be Happy, an initiative to support and promote the work of emerging photographers. Originally, it functioned as a platform for artists making DIY Books and Zines, but eventually would become more expansive, getting involved in educational activities, the curation of exhibitions and events, and with their own publishing initiative. Through its imprint SPBH editions, Cesc...
Episode 32 | Paul Mpagi Sepuya
July 11, 2019 11:00 - 38 minutes - 32.2 MBI went to go visit Paul Mpagi Sepuya on a cool day this past winter at his studio in the Boyle Heights area of LA. In one room, test prints, book mockups His desk and a big printer filled the space. In the other, a Russian plywood bench, a big mirror on the wall, a velvet curtain hanging and a camera on a tripod. He suggested we do the interview in that room, the set where many of his photos have been made, and maybe somehow, maybe the setting would provoke more interesting conversation. The...
Jeff Burton
June 14, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBIt seems to me like the more dramatic the subject matter a photographer takes on, the more difficult their job becomes. When what is in front of the camera has so much visual appeal already, how do you make pictures that are more interesting than the event? Jeff Burton’s pictures are such a great example of how brilliantly someone has dealt with that problem. His work, much of which was made on gay adult film sets in LA, rarely just documents what is in front of him, but rather uses that ma...
Episode 31 | Jeff Burton
June 14, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBIt seems to me like the more dramatic the subject matter a photographer takes on, the more difficult their job becomes. When what is in front of the camera has so much visual appeal already, how do you make pictures that are more interesting than the event? Jeff Burton’s pictures are such a great example of how brilliantly someone has dealt with that problem. His work, much of which was made on gay adult film sets in LA, rarely just documents what is in front of him, but rather uses that ma...
Episode 30 | Jo Ann Callis
May 21, 2019 11:21 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBJo Ann Callis’ photographs have such an uncanny strangeness to them. They often feel like they could be stills out of a David Lynch film, but she was making them long before Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive came to be. She was born in Cincinnati and pursued her interest in art at Ohio State University, though her eduction was interrupted by marriage, moving our to LA and having kids. These challenges, though, would end up becoming a big part of her subject matter. She’s always been interest...
Jo Ann Callis
May 21, 2019 11:21 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBJo Ann Callis’ photographs have such an uncanny strangeness to them. They often feel like they could be stills out of a David Lynch film, but she was making them long before Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive came to be. She was born in Cincinnati and pursued her interest in art at Ohio State University, though her eduction was interrupted by marriage, moving our to LA and having kids. These challenges, though, would end up becoming a big part of her subject matter. She’s always been interest...
Episode 29 | Mark McKnight
April 30, 2019 13:20 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBThere is so much soul in Mark McKnight's dark, complex, psychological photographs, whether he's photographing the bodies of men he’s attracted to, still lives or landscapes, all which have a distinct relationship to one another. Just last week, Mark was awarded the very prestigious Aperture Portfolio Prize. I encourage you to go and read Brendan Embser’s write-up on Aperture’s site because he really hits the nail on the head with Marks work and introduces it so beautifully. Embser says: “ ...
Mark McKnight
April 30, 2019 13:20 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBThere is so much soul in Mark McKnight's dark, complex, psychological photographs, whether he's photographing the bodies of men he’s attracted to, still lives or landscapes, all which have a distinct relationship to one another. Just last week, Mark was awarded the very prestigious Aperture Portfolio Prize. I encourage you to go and read Brendan Embser’s write-up on Aperture’s site because he really hits the nail on the head with Marks work and introduces it so beautifully. Embser says: “ ...
Marcelo Gabriel Yanez
March 27, 2019 12:20 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBI first heard of Marcelo Yanez through a mutual friend, Bryson Rand, when he took out this tabloid format publication called Newspaper to show me. In Bryson’s usual humility, he didn’t even mention the photo of his that graced the cover, but Instead, wanted to show me other work inside that he was excited about, and especially about who put this all together. At 19 years old, Marcelo Yanez took on a project. He had discovered a publication from the early 70’s called Newspaper that featured ...
Episode 28 | Marcelo Gabriel Yanez
March 27, 2019 12:20 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBI first heard of Marcelo Yanez through a mutual friend, Bryson Rand, when he took out this tabloid format publication called Newspaper to show me. In Bryson’s usual humility, he didn’t even mention the photo of his that graced the cover, but Instead, wanted to show me other work inside that he was excited about, and especially about who put this all together. At 19 years old, Marcelo Yanez took on a project. He had discovered a publication from the early 70’s called Newspaper that featured ...
Episode 27 | Susan Meiselas
February 28, 2019 13:19 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBRecorded in: New York City Episode Length: 45:12 Air Date: February 28, 2019 Produced by: Jordan Weitzman Edited by: Cristal Duhaime I got to Susan Meiselas’ Mott street studio a few minutes early and one of her assistants let me in to set up my gear. As I was waiting for her to arrive, I was leafing through a worn out first edition of Carnival Strippers, thinking to myself nervously, in that bout of anxiety before an interview - what are we going to even talk about that she’s gonna find i...
Susan Meiselas
February 28, 2019 13:19 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBI got to Susan Meiselas’ Mott street studio a few minutes early and one of her assistants let me in to set up my gear. As I was waiting for her to arrive, I was leafing through a worn out first edition of Carnival Strippers, thinking to myself nervously, in that bout of anxiety before an interview - what are we going to even talk about that she’s gonna find interesting? The door clicked open she flew into the basement studio apologizing for a Magnum Foundation meeting running a few minutes l...
Episode 26 | Mary Frey
January 25, 2019 14:37 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBRecorded in: Longmeadow, MA Episode Length: Air Date: January 25, 2019 Produced by: Jordan Weitzman Edited by: Cristal Duhaime In the past two years, Mary Frey put out two new books - Reading Raymond Carver and Real Life Dramas. The first is made up of black and white work and the other, all color. Both bodies of work are in and around 35 years old and these were Frey’s first major publications of them. It wasn’t exactly as if she was unknown until now though. In fact, almost the inverse....
Mary Frey
January 25, 2019 14:37 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBIn the past two years, Mary Frey put out two new books - Reading Raymond Carver and Real Life Dramas. The first is made up of black and white work and the other, all color. Both bodies of work are in and around 35 years old and these were Frey’s first major publications of them. It wasn’t exactly as if she was unknown until now though. In fact, almost the inverse. She’s been a cult hero in photography circles for years and a beloved teacher at Hartford’s graduate program, where she taught un...
Episode 25 | Rory Mulligan
December 22, 2018 12:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBRecorded in: Yonkers, New York Episode Length: 41:16 Air Date: December 22, 2018 Produced by: Jordan Weitzman Edited by: Cristal Duhaime Not gunna lie, i had a pretty big art crush on Rory Mulligan long before i met him to talk about his work for this show. I remember first discovering his work on the J&L Books website in the special edition section. They had published a small book of his work in an edition of 10 called Freddie. You couldn’t find it anywhere, but there were enough pictures...
Rory Mulligan
December 22, 2018 12:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBNot gunna lie, i had a pretty big art crush on Rory Mulligan long before i met him to talk about his work for this show. I remember first discovering his work on the J&L Books website in the special edition section. They had published a small book of his work in an edition of 10 called Freddie. You couldn’t find it anywhere, but there were enough pictures on the site to get a feel for what he was up to. But I remember thinking to myself - what exactly was he up to? There was a strange, dark...
Episode 24 | Jack Woody
November 13, 2018 13:05 - 48 minutes - 111 MBI think I first came across Jack Woody’s name after buying a Duane Michals called Album years ago. I remember thinking that it was so elegant, so beautifully printed and layed out, that I was curious who was behind it. I remember mentioning that book the first time I met Duane, and he told me that there was this hotel in San Francisco who bought the book and cut out and framed the prints they were so gorgeous. That gravure process that Jack Woody tracked down and began to use became one of ...
Jack Woody
November 13, 2018 13:05 - 48 minutes - 111 MBI think I first came across Jack Woody’s name after buying a Duane Michals called Album years ago. I remember thinking that it was so elegant, so beautifully printed and layed out, that I was curious who was behind it. I remember mentioning that book the first time I met Duane, and he told me that there was this hotel in San Francisco who bought the book and cut out and framed the prints they were so gorgeous. That gravure process that Jack Woody tracked down and began to use became one of ...
Episode 23 | Farah Al Qasimi
October 09, 2018 15:05 - 42 minutes - 96.8 MBLast month, I went to visit Farah Al Qasimi at her home and studio in Williamsburg. After talking with her, I thought about her space and how both her studio and her living area represented different parts of her in a way. Both very smart, both refined, but in different ways - the living space had an elegance and a lightness to it, while the studio had a sense of humour and playfulness. I took it a step further and then thought about how those rooms also reflect the different ways she photog...