The Halftone
Summary: The Halftone is my chance to visit with photographers to talk with them about what they do, how they do it, and how they got there.
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For more than thirty years Thomas Palmer has been making printing separations for books. His credits include work by Lee Friedlander, Nicholas Nixon, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and many others. In spring of 2015 I visited Palmer at his home in Newport, Rhode Island to talk with him about his start in photography, his earliest job in printing and making books with Irving Penn and Lee Friedlander. The Newport Art Museum is currently hosting a show of Palmer's photographs titled "This Newport," on display until September 5, 2016.
As a young man Jon Goodman set out from the United States for Europe to learn photogravure printing. At the time of his journey in the mid-1970s the practice of making flat plate gravures had all but disappeared. After years of travel and trials in Europe and the United States, Goodman began printing work by some of the greats: Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange and Paul Strand. I sat down with Goodman in his Northampton, Massachusetts studio to talk about his travels in Europe, working on photogravure with Richard Benson and working with Michael Hoffman at Aperture.
This spring I traveled to New England to visit with a few of the printers behind some of my favorite photobooks. Robert Hennessey makes printing separations for books. His work is behind some of the best photography books of the last several decades, including titles by Paul Strand, Helen Levitt, Robert Bergman, John Szarkowski, Nan Goldin and Sally Mann. I visited with Hennessey at his home in Middletown, Connecticut to talk with him about his early days as a dye-transfer printer, working in photo-offset printing and carrying a boxful of Cartier-Bresson prints from the Museum of Modern Art home with him on the subway!
For the past several years Bryan Schutmaat has been making photographs around small mountain towns in the American West. We recently met up in Philadelphia to talk about his Texas upbringing, ditch-surfing, his early work in photography and his recent book Grays the Mountain Sends.
