Lindsay Seers
Notes de mon entretien avec Lindsay Seers le 2 février 2011 à Londres.
ML: Not separate fact and fiction; not wanting to know what’s real and what’s fiction. Am I interviewing the subject or the object?
LS: usually I don’t allow questions when I talk about my work.
ML: Your view of the image being inside and…
Steven (Mr.) Pippin
Notes de mon entretien avec Steven Pippin le 18 juin 2011, à Strasbourg.
His start: his father (engineer, doing photos, developing in bathtub); it was more exciting than the images.
Nothing was interesting to be photographed. Saturated with images. Find an alternative way: make cameras, then look for an interesting subject to photograph. Make a…
Gábor Ösz
Notes de mon entretien avec Gábor Ösz le 20 novembre 2010, à Paris.
A photographer or an artist using photography?
I started as a painter. Conceptual photography always has been in focus from very early on (in the 80s in Hungary) from my teachers at the Academy, who were conceptual artists.
Main masters/ influencers?
Those Hungarian artists. Beuys. Kossuth. Matta-Clark.
Catalogues…
Floris Neusüss
Notes de mon entretien avec Floris Neusüss le 13 octobre 2010 à Londres, en compagnie de son épouse Renate Heyn
Training and influences
Early training. Started photograms very early (17). Was already more interested in the process. Roetgen school.
Trained as mural painter, then photography (photo school in Wuppertal). Also printmaking.
Using paper without baryte (paper for architects’prints),…
Laura Medler
Notes de mon entretien avec Laura Medler le 2 février 2011 à Londres.
Student at Slade (where photography wasn’t taught), exchange in Helsinki in 1998, worked with found images.
I heard about periphery camera at British Museum, manufactured by Rolls Royce: fixed camera, object turns, surface becomes a 2d image. Was fascinated by an urn. Made…
Aditya Mandayam
Notes de mon entretien avec Aditya Mandayam, le 25 octobre 2010, à Paris
Studied maths, group theory.
Photos for fun from age 8.
Habit of breaking things.
Messing around with what I have.
I get bored very quickly.
Camera is a mental machine.
Did edible camera, edible film.
Simplicity of the pinhole camera.
Bedroom is also a dark room.
Surrounded by screens.
Magical effect of…
Vera Lutter
L’entretien prévu avec Vera Lutter n’ayant pu avoir lieu, je reproduis ici le guide d’entretien que j'avais préparé et transmis à l’artiste.
One could argue that your work is essentially about the passage of time, and in this respect akin to, for instance, Barthes’s mother’s photo. But time is an external element in most photographs…
Natalie Ital
Notes de mon entretien avec Natalie Ital le 28 mai 2012, chez elle à Berlin.
Very diverse practice ; photos, films, music.
Went to Kassel to learn photogram, with Neususs.
Wanted to work with colour ; Neususs said just try.
Getting unexpected colours ; you are in the dark, don’t know what is going to come out.
Experiment beyond imagination.
Could not control…
John Hilliard
Notes de mon entretien avec John Hilliard le 6 février 2011, chez lui à Londres
Experimentation on the essence itself of photography. Started before 1970. Studied sculpture, and saw US sculpture only in photos in magazines, plus many sculptures were ephemeral or unconventional objects, so had to be documented by photo. Documenting was crucial.
Started thinking…
Adam Fuss
Notes d’après les entretiens de Mark Haworth-Booth avec Adam Fuss (1961) le 26 août 1998, disponibles à la British Library dans le cadre du projet « Oral History of British Photography » (références C459/ 103; F6559-F6562; 8 bandes)
1ère bande (31:41)
Born 1961. As a teenager, photography as a bridge between sciences and art.
Fascination then with equipment as…