The Halftone

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**Episode 19: Alex Matzke** Aug 29, 2017
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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This episode is brought to you by TBW Books and their latest release TBW Books Series Number Five, featuring previously unpublished work by Susan Meiselas, Mike Mandel, Bill Burke and Lee Friedlander. Visit www.tbwbooks.com to order and browse other titles.

Episode 17: Lois Conner Apr 11, 2017

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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 book, Beijing: Contemporary and Imperial is available from Princeton Architectural Press.

This episode is brought to you by Haywire Press, presenting signed, deluxe and limited-edition books from the personal archives of Lee Friedlander.

**Episode 16: Andrea Modica** Mar 28, 2017
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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 SUNY Oneonta, the drive that led her to meet the subjects of her book Treadwell and her recent work photographing in an Italian horse clinic and at Philadelphia's Mummers Festival.
Andrea Modica is currently on the teaching faculty at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photographs from her project Best Friends are currently on view at the University of Kentucky Art Museum until April 30th, 2017. A second edition of As We Wait, a collaboration with Larry Fink, is available from L'Artiere Editions. For a look at more of her work, visit her website at andreamodica.com.

**Episode 15: Matt Eich** Dec 20, 2016
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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 and welding families in Chauncey, Ohio. We also discussed his new book Carry Me, Ohio which collects pictures made in rural Appalachian towns abandoned by industry. Published by Strum and Drang, the book has sold out, but be on the look-out for a limited edition coming in 2017.
To have a look at Matt’s work check out his website, www.matteichphoto.com.
This episode is sponsored by Haywire Press, presenting signed, deluxe and limited-edition books by photo legend Lee Friedlander. Visit www.haywirepress.com for more.

Episode 13: Sarah Greenough Nov 22, 2016

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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 In: Robert Frank's The Americans.

Greenough also worked on two new shows at the National Gallery which are currently on view: Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker and Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

This episode of the Halftone is sponsored by Haywire Press offering signed, deluxe and limited edition books by photo legend Lee Friedlander.