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**The Halftone**

The Halftone is my chance to visit with photographers to talk with them about what they do, how they do it, and how they got there.

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**Episode 09: Paul Schiek** Sep 06, 2016
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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 and Christian Patterson. Listen in as we discuss Paul’s move out West as a teenager, the origins of TBW and his love of work.

**Episode 08: Leslie Williamson** Aug 23, 2016
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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. She's a writer as well and her stories of the places she visits fill her books as well as her People Watching feature for the New York Times T Magazine blog.

**Episode 07: Sandra Phillips** Aug 09, 2016
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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 well as her travels as curator and a daguerreotype of a five-pound potato!
If you can make it SFMOMA be sure to check out two new exhibits organized by Phillips and her colleagues: California and the West and About Time, now on view at the museum.

**Episode 06: Doug DuBois** Jul 19, 2016
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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 have a look at Doug’s work you can visit his website, and to order his book My Last Day at Seventeen head over to Aperture.

**Episode 05: Alec Soth** Jul 05, 2016
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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 can check out Little Brown Mushroom, Soth's platform for experimenting with new work by other photographers and writers, hosting traveling workshops and releasing books of his own pictures.
This summer the Finnish Museum of Photography is hosting a retrospective of Soth's work titled Gathered Leaves - The photographs and books of Alec Soth. The show will be on view from August 17 through October 30th, 2016.

**Episode 04: Thomas Palmer** Jun 21, 2016
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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 Island to talk with him about his start in photography, his earliest job in printing and making books with Irving Penn and Lee Friedlander.
The Newport Art Museum is currently hosting a show of Palmer's photographs titled "This Newport," on display until September 5, 2016.

**Episode 03: Jon Goodman** Jun 07, 2016
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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 work by some of the greats: Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange and Paul Strand. I sat down with Goodman in his Northampton, Massachusetts workshop to talk about his travels in Europe, working on photogravure with Richard Benson and working with Michael Hoffman at Aperture.
Visit Jon's website for more on his own photography and portfolio printing.

Episode 02: Robert Hennessey May 24, 2016

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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 Bergman, John Szarkowski, Nan Goldin and Sally Mann. I visited with Hennessey at his home in Middletown, Connecticut to talk with him about his early days as a dye-transfer printer, working in photo-offset printing and carrying a boxful of Cartier-Bresson prints home with him from the Museum of Modern Art on the subway!

**Episode 01: Bryan Schutmaat** May 09, 2016
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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 at Bryan's work you can check out his website; and to purchase his book head over to Silas Finch. Bryan is also on Instagram @bryanschutmaat.

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