002 - Michael Eastman - a podcast by Kevin Kelly

from 2019-07-10T01:36:34

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Michael Eastman is an artist working with a camera.

eastmanimages.com

@michaeleastmanphotography

4:00 - Dude

5:00 - Big Lebowski/Jeff Bridges/Weed

8:50 - St. Louis slow to change visually

11:10 - Rate of Urban Renewal in STL

14:45 - Beginnings as a photographer

15:05 - “A lot of times when I went out and photographed my mantra was, ‘If I were aware of what people 150 years from right now were interested in, then I would photograph those things. They’d be significant records; historical records. And a photographer, unlike many artists, is really part historian. What they’re doing is recording a reality in time, that changes. So that was meaningful for me to see these changes and to record them. To do a portrait of a place.” - Eastman

17:30 - Why did Eastman get into photography in the first place?

19:10 - College years/Entering the workforce

23:10 - The attraction of photography

24:00 - The Daybooks of Edward Weston

24:30 - First Photographs as a “Photographer”

26:45 - Emotion in photography

27:03 - “What you feel about a photograph is transmitted, translated, communicated into print.” - Eastman

28:45 - Photograph things that you have feelings about

29:25 - Ansel Adams & Others

31:40 - First photo jobs

38:39 - “When I started, there was all these voices in my head. There were critics, gallery owners, museum curators, my parents, their friends – there was a Shakespearean chorus of naysayers telling me I couldn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t do it. Those voices propelled me.” - Eastman

40:25 - Relating Michael’s Story to the concept of Anti-

42:00 - Eastman’s First Show at Washington University

44:40 - Maintaining an attitude of incompleteness

49:00 - Sitting on your work for awhile

50:00 - Knowing William Gass

54:30 - Shooting Forest Park & showing them to Gass in his last years

58:15 - Reinvesting back into yourself

1:00:00 - Commercial vs. Fine Art Work

1:00:15 - Shooting Nudes as Landscape

1:06:00 - Finding success in fine art later in life

1:09:00 - Success is the most difficult thing for an artist to overcome

1:11:05 - Vivian Maier