Episodes
Jordan Weitzman gets together with archivist Olivian Cha to talk about her work with Corita's photographic archive at the Corita Art Centre in LA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 12/19/23
Published 12/19/23
Jordan Weitzman visits curator Roxana Marcoci at MoMA to talk about her most recent exhibition, a survey show of An-My Lê's work. Marcoci is the David Dechman senior curator and acting chief curator of the department of photography at the museum, where she has been working since 1999. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 11/17/23
Jordan Weitzman gets together with S*an D. Henry Smith to talk about their work and current show up at 47 Canal in New York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 07/24/23
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Published 06/29/23
In our last episode of the year, Jordan Weitzman gets together with artist Genesis Baez for a generous conversation about her work and upcoming book with Capricious. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 12/28/22
A conversation with Rahim Fortune which took place at the New York Art Book Fair's Classroom program last month. Join host Jordan Weitzman as he talks to Fortune about his book, I can't stand to see you cry, published by Loose Joints. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 11/23/22
Magic Hour is back after a short hiatus! Join host Jordan Weitzman as he sits down with Baldwin Lee to discuss his recently published self-titled monograph. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 10/26/22
Jordan Weitzman visits artist and master printer Gary Schneider at his home on Long Island to talk about his innovative work in portraiture, his legendary East Village photo lab, and his friendship with Peter Hujar. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 03/08/22
A visit with Matt Leifheit at his Matte HQ storefront in Brooklyn to talk about his work as a photographer, publisher and editor. His first monograph, To Die Alive, is being published by Damiani this spring. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 01/12/22
Peter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz can be ordered at https://magichourphoto.org/books/peter-hujars-day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 11/30/21
Jordan Weitzman gets together with Terri Weifenbach at Jardins des Plantes, where she's photographed extensively since moving to Paris two years ago. They talk about her new book, Cloud Physics, published this month with The Ice Palace and Atelier EXB. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 10/13/21
Jordan Weitzman gets together with painter and photographer Billy Sullivan at his loft on the Bowery, where he's been living for over 40 years. Jordan also makes a special announcement about a new imprint that's been in the works for the past year - Magic Hour Press - and new books coming this fall by Ian Lewandowski and Linda Rosenkrantz. Visit www.magichourphoto.org to find out more.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 07/29/21
Jordan Weitzman gets together with Dayanita Singh, whose work often blurs the lines between bookmaking and exhibiting.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 05/12/21
Jordan Weitzman gets together with Stephen Koch for a special conversation about his work as an author, teacher and executor of the Peter Hujar Estate, which he's managed for over 30 years.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 03/25/21
Published 02/22/21
Jordan Weitzman gets together with Anne Turyn to talk about Top Stories, the avant-garde periodical she published between 1978-1991.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Published 01/06/21
While preparing to interview Moyra Davey, I started to really try and figure out what it is that I love so much about her work. Is it that she is able to deal with the most mundane, everyday subject matter in such a personal, unpretentious, electrifying, simple and complex way? Is it her subject matter that’s so appealing? Artists that she’s interested in, diaries, ephemera, hang-ups, let downs, preocupations, inspirations, quotes, books? Is it that she speaks of those things in the first...
Published 11/16/20
Published 09/28/20
On an unusually mild winter evening this past February, I got together with Mary Manning at her apartment in NYC. She is the author of Blueprint and First Impressions of Greece, and has contributed to numerous publications, most recently, a wonderful image text exchange with the author Olivia Laing in the Spirituality issue of Aperture. In 2006, she started the blog Unchanging Window, which became an important creative outlet for her and a way of finding community. She has shown with Canada...
Published 05/21/20
Just before the world went into Covid-19 lockdown, I got together with Drew Sawyer at his apartment in the Bedstuy. He’s the photo Curator at the Brooklyn Museum, and among the numerous exhibitions he’s worked on in his current and previous posts at MoMa and the Columbus Museum of Art, he recently gave the Russian Ghanian photographer Liz Johnson Artur her first solo museum exhibition, resurrected the color work of Gary Winogrand and put together an incredible survey of queer work in the past...
Published 04/21/20
On the chair next to me sat a worn out copy of Toni Morrisson’s Beloved, a favorite which Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. told me he’s read at least three times. We were sitting at the kitchen table in the apartment which he’s been living at in Flushing, Queens, on the upstairs floor of a yellow and burgundy house museum dedicated to the work of Louis Ladimer. Ladimer was the inventor of the carbon-filament light bulb, an addendum and improvement to Thomas Edison’s original lightbulb. So the...
Published 03/11/20
Vince Aletti has been writing and reporting on culture for over 50 years. He was the first person to write about disco for Rolling Stone in the early 70’s, he worked as a senior-editor for the Village Voice for over twenty years and was the photo critic for the New Yorker until 2016. In this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with Aletti at his storied, book and art filled east village apartment to talk about it all. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Published 02/03/20
Just last weekend, a piece of Carmen’s - a portrait in multiple images of Toni Morrisson was featured on the last cover of the New York Times Magazine of the decade. The culmination of an eventful past couple of years for Carmen, she released two new books - Notes on Fundamental Joy with Printed Matter and My Birth with SPBH Editions. That book accompanied her show of the same name in MoMa’s New Photography in 2018. In that powerful installation, she used two facing walls to tape up over 2000...
Published 01/08/20
Jordan Weitzman sits down with photographer Allen Frame at his home and talk about everything from his early days in Boston with Nan Goldin and David Armstrong, to where his sense of space in his photographs comes from.
Published 11/26/19