Podcast
What can instructional photographs teach us about ways of seeing? This is the question asked by artist Carmen Winant in the introduction to her book Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now (2021).
Upcoming episodes include Moyra Davey on encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive, Ishion Hutchinson’s homage to the British artist Donald Rodney, Stephen Shore on the importance of the everyday, Tracy K. Smith’s poetic response to the photography of RaMell Ross and Amelia Abraham’s essay on the changing nature of sexual subcultures
In Ep. 8 of ‘Thought Pieces’, Ahndraya Parlato reads from her multi-faceted rumination on the contradictions and complexities of motherhood, 'Who is Changed and Who is Dead'. Drawing on her own experiences as both a parent and a child, Parlato strives to find clarity around the fundamental questions of parenthood, mortality, and gender. Are her contemporary fears any different than the fears felt by mothers throughout history? Which anxieties are specific to having female children? And how is motherhood itself a construction?
In Ep. 7 of 'Thought Pieces', Collier Schorr and Angel Zinovieff give an intimate reading of 'Notes on Tricks', exploring the roles we inhabit as the photographer and the photographed, and drawing on themes of closeness, sexuality, and the rescued relics of our childhoods.
In Ep.6 of Thought Pieces, writer, editor, and curator Lou Stoppard discusses the incredible – and much overlooked – work of Shirley Baker, considering her place in the male-dominated history of photography, together with the compassionate and attentive ways in which she captured everyday life in Salford, London, and beyond.
In Ep.5 of 'Thought Pieces' Ben Lerner reads his expansive prose poems from his new book ‘Gold Custody,’ which take us on a perambulatory journey through time, personal mythologies and the unraveling of the mysterious languages we inherit.