J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Stephen Frailey
Episode #9 Summary:
Author, educator, curator and photographer, Stephen Frailey distills the knowledge of 40 years of teaching photographic education into a curated compilation of seminal and consistently inspiring photographers.
Episode Notes
Reutilizing the name and frame of John Szarkowski, Frailey highlights 100 photographers based on Susan Sontag’s premise that photography is an instrument for knowing things, and this is his collection of what he knows. His intention is to provide a platform to repeatedly explore the layered discoveries within a single image. As Frailey notes: “all images traffic in the marketplace of ideas.”
In this book group, Stephen discusses, among other things:
Developing sensibility
Exploring styles outside of comfort zones
Transitioning from one body of work to another
Animating still lives
Degrees of appropriation
Referenced in the episode
John Szarkowski - Looking at Photographs
Book Review - Hank Willis Thomas
Playboy, Braille Edition - funded by U.S. Congress since 1985
Dear Dave - for a signed copy of the book
Published by Damiani Editore