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A series of illustrations of the pop up guests, by artist Eugene Gladun.A series of illustrations of the pop up guests, by artist Eugene Gladun.
A series of sketches of the guests of this pop up series by artist Eugene Gladun (@eugenegladun), done in real time during the talks over Zoom. Guests featured, from the top left clockwise: Hilton Als, Brit Marling, Jonathan Lethem, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Stan Douglas, and Ben Stiller.

Started in response to the shift to online learning during the 2020 pandemic, the School of Art’s Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Gregory Crewdson initiated and hosted this special series of online events which function as short 30-minute to hour-long discussions.

In each Q&A, Crewdson asks a set list of questions to engage each artist in conversation about their practice, as well as how they’re adapting and responding to the current crisis. These standardized questions are often followed by more impromptu questions asked directly by MFA students in the Photography department here at the School of Art.

While the recordings of all of these online events cannot be made publicly available, select clips and full segments are published on the Photo department’s Youtube channel as well as archived below.

The final talk in the series was hosted on Sunday, May 10, 2020.

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SERIES LINKS:

• Yale MFA Photography YouTube channel

• Artist Eugene Gladun’s series of live sketches of the guests, available on his Instagram

• “Yale School of Art photography department hosts ‘pop-up’ lecture series” on Yale News

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Errol Morris changed documentary filmmaking forever with his 1988 film The Thin Blue Line and won the Oscar for his 2003 film The Fog of War. His prolific filmmaking continues to shape the medium; his more recent Netflix mini-series Wormwood was a NYT Critic’s Pick. In addition to the Academy Award, he is the recipient of countless other honors including the MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships.

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Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond, two of the founding members of the Beastie Boys, recently teamed up with acclaimed director Spike Jonze (Her, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) for Beastie Boys Story, released on April 24, 2020 on Apple TV+.

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Jim Jarmusch, director, composer, auteur, is often credited with influencing and shaping the independent/art house film movement more than any other filmmaker, beginning with his classic Stranger than Paradise in 1984. His most recent film, The Dead Don’t Die was released in 2019.

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Catherine Opie is one of the most widely acclaimed and influential fine art photographers of her generation. Exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, she had a major mid-career survey at the Guggenheim in 2008-2009, Catherine Opie: American Photographer. Opie is a professor of photography at UCLA.

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Sophie Calle is a French conceptual artist, photographer, and writer. Her work has been exhibited widely across Europe and internationally; including at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and in a major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 2009 and 2010. She has explored the lines between life and fiction through invented characters. Calle is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Hasselblad Award, and the Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.

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Tilda Swinton is an actress, and performance artist. She has created dozens of memorable and iconic characters and performances on screen and stage. She is the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2007 film Michael Clayton, and countless other awards and honors for her work including the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards and a special honor by MoMA.

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Brit Marling is co-creator, writer, and star of the popular Netflix series The OA. She co-wrote, produced, and starred in the feature films Sound of My Voice and Earth, both of which premiered at Sundance in 2011. She first began writing in order to gain creative control over the roles she would play as an actress, a subject she recently wrote about in a New York Times editorial “I Don’t Want to Be the Strong Female Lead.” She frequently collaborates with directors Zal Batmanglij and Mike Cahill, both of whom she met as students at Georgetown University.

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Stephen Shore, considered one of the most important pioneers of fine art color photography, has been published and exhibited widely for some 45 years. Something of a prodigy, he began making and developing photographs at the age of six. While still in his 20s, he received a NEA Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and had solo shows at both the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA. In 2017, MoMA opened a major retrospective spanning Shore’s entire career. He has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College since 1982.

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Kelly Reichardt is a critically-acclaimed, award winning independent filmmaker and screenwriter. Known for her minimalist style, formal rigor, and nuanced storytelling, her films have included Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, and Certain Women, among others. Her tenth feature film, the recently-released First Cow, screened at the 2019 New York Film Festival, and was heralded as a masterpiece by AO Scott of the New York Times. She is a Guggenheim fellow, recipient of the United States Artists Fellowship, and won an Independent Spirit Bonnie Award as well as the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Film. Her work was screened at the 2012 Whitney Biennial and she has had retrospectives at multiple public institutions across the country. She is on the faculty of the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.

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William Eggleston is an icon and legend of American photography, known for his lush, highly-saturated color photographs depicting ordinary life and quotidian still lifes in the American south. His groundbreaking 1976 solo exhibition at MoMA was one of the very first centered on color photography at the museum. Eggleston is the recipient of numerous fellowships and honors, has been the subject of multiple documentaries, has had extensive solo exhibitions, and is commonly credited with color photography being recognized as a fine art form. The Whitney Museum mounted a major retrospective of his work in 2008. His books William Eggleston’s Guide and The Democratic Forest are defining classics of the medium.

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Hilton Als is an author, curator, and theater critic and staff writer at The New Yorker. He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Alice Neel, Uptown, which Als curated in 2017, was selected by three of Artforum’s critics as one of the ten best shows of the year. He curated the widely-praised God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, which opened last year at David Zwirner. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University.

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Jonathan Lethem’s novels, short stories, and essays have been widely acclaimed and have won him many awards and honors. His 1999 novel, Motherless Brooklyn, won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His 2003 semi-autobiographic novel, The Fortress of Solitude, was a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He has been a Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College since 2011.

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Ben Stiller has written, starred in, directed, and/or produced more than 50 films, including Reality Bites, The Cable Guy, Zoolander, The Royal Tenenbaums, While We’re Young, and The Meyerowitz Stories. He won a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing for the 2019 mini-series Escape at Dannemora. He is an Emmy winner for his writing, and has received multiple MTV Movie Awards, among many other honors.

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Ari Aster wrote and directed the acclaimed horror films Hereditary and Midsommar. Aster won several awards and honors for both films. The 171-minute cut of Midsommar later had its world premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and was subsequently released theatrically across the U.S. He received his MFA in Directing from the AFI Conservatory.

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LaToya Ruby Frazier is a highly celebrated artist working in photography, video, and performance. Her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally including solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2012. Her numerous awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship, among others.

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Cate Blanchett is an internationally acclaimed actor, director, and producer both on screen and on stage. She has won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, and three BAFTAs, among numerous other awards and honors. She has performed in over 70 films and 20 theatre productions, including standout roles in Elizabeth, Blue Jasmine, Carol, A Streetcar Named Desire, Plenty, and The Present. She studied economics and fine art at the University of Melbourne and graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts. From 2008–2013 she was Co-Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company. She stars in and is executive producer of the series Mrs. America, currently streaming on Hulu.

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Kim Gordon is a visual artist, musician, writer, director, actor, and designer. In addition to being a founding member of Sonic Youth, she has written and performed music with Free Kittens, Body/Head, Glitterbust, and, in 2019, she released her solo debut album, No Home Record. She received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design and an honorary Doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her visual artwork is exhibited internationally; The Bonfire, her most recent solo exhibition, opened at 303 Gallery in January.

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Stan Douglas is a conceptual artist working in video, photography, and cinematic installations. He has exhibited internationally and his work has been included in documenta IX, X and XI as well as four Venice Biennales. His most recent film installation Doppelgänger premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2019. He is the recipient of numerous awards including an Honorary Doctorate from Emily Carr University, ICP Infinity Award, Scotiabank Photography Award, and most recently, in 2019, the Audain Prize for the Visual Arts.

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Noah Baumbach is a critically-acclaimed, award-winning writer, director, and producer. His films include Kicking and Screaming, The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, While We’re Young, The Meyerowitz Stories, and Marriage Story, which is currently streaming on Netflix. He co-wrote screenplays for Wes Anderson’s award winning films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr. Fox. He has been nominated for multiple Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and is the recipient of a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, a National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, an LA Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, among others.

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Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. His sixth and most recent book, Talking to Strangers, was released in 2019 to great acclaim. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts “Revisionist History,” and “Broken Record,” which he hosts and co-hosts, among others. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.

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Robert Eggers is a writer, director, and production designer, best known for his critically-acclaimed films The Witch and The Lighthouse. Among numerous awards, he won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Directing Award from the Sundance Film Festival for The Witch. He received the International Federation of Film Critics Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for The Lighthouse. The Lighthouse was also nominated for an Academy Award for best cinematography.

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Robert Adams is one of the most influential and acclaimed photographers in the history of the medium. He has photographed the changing landscape of the American West for more than fifty years. His pictures have been exhibited widely and he is frequently lauded as the central trailblazer of the New Topographics movement. Additionally, his book, Beauty in Photography, a collection of essays, is regarded as essential reading within the discipline. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA Photographer Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, and the Hasselblad Award. In 1989, the Philadelphia Museum of Art mounted a major mid-career retrospective. In 2010, the Yale University Art Gallery created a retrospective exhibition that traveled widely, entitled The Place We Live. Adams received his BA in English from the University of Redlands in California and a PhD in English from the University of Southern California.

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Wolfgang Tillmans is an award winning, widely exhibited and acclaimed German photographer. He emerged in the 1990s with his intimate, casually-styled images of youth culture. His practice has since evolved to include diaristic photography, large-scale abstractions, video, and commissioned magazine work. In 2003, the Tate Britain mounted a major mid-career retrospective of his work, and in 2006, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles also organized a major retrospective, which then traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. That same year, Tillmans founded Between Bridges, a non-profit exhibition space located in London. He is the first non-British artist to be awarded the Turner Prize and has also received the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’s Charles Wollaston Award, The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography, and is an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

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James Murphy is a musician, DJ, record producer, and sound engineer. As the leader of LCD Soundsystem and co-founder of DFA Records, he has been a pivotal figure in electronic, dance-punk music. As a Billboard 200 Top 50 artist, he has released four, critically acclaimed, Grammy nominated studio albums, and has worked with several other artists and musicians including Arcade Fire, Six Finger Satellite, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He has also written scores for Noah Baumbach’s films Greenberg and While We’re Young. In 2013, LCD Soundsystem was named one of Rolling Stone’s “New Immortals” and in 2018 LCD Soundsystem received a Grammy for Best Dance Recording.

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Natasha Lyonne is an actor, writer, director, and producer. She received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series and Lead Actress, for the Netflix series, Russian Doll, which she co-created, and executive produced. From 2013–2019 she held a major role in the award-winning Netflix series Orange is the New Black. She has appeared in over 50 films including Slums of Beverly Hills; American Pie; Detroit Rock City; But I’m a Cheerleader; Die, Mommie, Die!; and Antibirth. She has also worked as a voice actor on several animated series including Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe; the Netflix comedy Big Mouth; The Simpsons; and the Adult Swim, science-fiction comedy, Ballmastrz: 9009.

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Nan Goldin is one of the most important and influential photographers of our time. Her body of work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency has become a touchstone in the history of contemporary photography and has influenced a generation of artists. Her work has been widely exhibited and published internationally and has been the subject of two major touring retrospectives, including I’ll Be Your Mirror, organized by the Whitney Museum. Goldin was admitted to the French Legion of Honor and received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award. The Macdowell Colony awarded Goldin the Edward MacDowell Medal for her enduring vision and creativity. In 2018, she founded Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN) and has organized numerous protests to address the opioid crisis.

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Credits:

This series was co-produced by Juliane Hiam, Producer/Studio Manager at Crewdson Studio, and Lindsey Mancini, Communications Associate at the Yale School of Art.

All series graphics were designed by Kyla Arsadjaja, Graphic Design MFA ‘20, and YouTube videos and clips were cut and edited by Dawn Kim, Photography MFA ‘20.

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