Magic Hour

By Jordan Weitzman

What's Magic Hour about?

A conversation series on photography where host Jordan Weitzman sits down with emerging and established photographers, publishers and editors to discuss their work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Magic Hour episodes:

12.19.2023
Olivian Cha
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.
11.17.2023
Roxana Marcoci
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...
07.24.2023
S*an D. Henry-Smith
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06.29.2023
Giulia Zorzi
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12.28.2022
Genesis Baez
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.
11.23.2022
Rahim Fortune
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...
10.26.2022
Baldwin Lee
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03.08.2022
Gary Schneider
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
01.12.2022
Matthew Leifheit
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. Hosted on Acast. See...
11.30.2021
Linda Rosenkrantz
Peter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz can be ordered at https://magichourphoto.org/books/peter-hujars-day Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10.13.2021
Terri Weifenbach
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....
07.29.2021
Billy Sullivan
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...
05.12.2021
Dayanita Singh
Jordan Weitzman gets together with Dayanita Singh, whose work often blurs the lines between bookmaking and exhibiting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.25.2021
Stephen Koch
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
02.22.2021
Shala Miller
It was a little strange getting together with Shala Miller in the same space we’d met in less than a year ago. It was Farah Al Qasimi’s opening at Helena Anrather’s gallery, and the room was packed. This time, we...
01.06.2021
Anne Turyn
Jordan Weitzman gets together with Anne Turyn to talk about Top Stories, the avant-garde periodical she published between 1978-1991. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11.16.2020
Moyra Davey
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...
09.28.2020
Michael Marcelle
I have an interesting relationship to Mike Marcelle’s work. On the one hand, I totally get it, but on the other, i so don’t relate to where it comes from. I get the seeing, I feel the strength of the...
05.21.2020
Mary Manning
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...
04.21.2020
Drew Sawyer
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...
03.11.2020
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
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...
02.03.2020
Vince Aletti
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...
01.08.2020
Carmen Winant
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...
11.26.2019
Allen Frame
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. Hosted on...
10.16.2019
Patrice Aphrodite Helmar
I remember the first time I met Patrice Aphrodite Helmar. It was around this time in 2017, and a friend asked if I wanted to go and check out the Backyard Biennial that she was putting on at her place...
09.17.2019
Matt Grubb
Matt Grubb is sitting in his car in the parking lot outside his favourite movie theatre in Queens, sipping a Diet Coke. As we're coordinating a time to meet for this interview, he tells me that he’s about to go...
08.28.2019
Bruno Ceschel
In 2010, with a feeling that the traditional publishing industry was not going to last, Bruno Ceschel founded Self Publish Be Happy, an initiative to support and promote the work of emerging photographers. Originally, it functioned as a platform...
07.11.2019
Episode 32 | Paul Mpagi Sepuya
I went to go visit Paul Mpagi Sepuya on a cool day this past winter at his studio in the Boyle Heights area of LA. In one room, test prints, book mockups His desk and a big printer filled the...
06.14.2019
Jeff Burton
It seems to me like the more dramatic the subject matter a photographer takes on, the more difficult their job becomes. When what is in front of the camera has so much visual appeal already, how do you make pictures...
05.21.2019
Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis’ photographs have such an uncanny strangeness to them. They often feel like they could be stills out of a David Lynch film, but she was making them long before Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive came to be. She...
04.30.2019
Mark McKnight
There is so much soul in Mark McKnight's dark, complex, psychological photographs, whether he's photographing the bodies of men he’s attracted to, still lives or landscapes, all which have a distinct relationship to one another. Just last week, Mark was awarded...
03.27.2019
Marcelo Gabriel Yanez
I first heard of Marcelo Yanez through a mutual friend, Bryson Rand, when he took out this tabloid format publication called Newspaper to show me. In Bryson’s usual humility, he didn’t even mention the photo of his that graced the...
02.28.2019
Susan Meiselas
I got to Susan Meiselas’ Mott street studio a few minutes early and one of her assistants let me in to set up my gear. As I was waiting for her to arrive, I was leafing through a worn out...
01.25.2019
Mary Frey
In the past two years, Mary Frey put out two new books - Reading Raymond Carver and Real Life Dramas. The first is made up of black and white work and the other, all color. Both bodies of work are...
12.22.2018
Rory Mulligan
Not gunna lie, i had a pretty big art crush on Rory Mulligan long before i met him to talk about his work for this show. I remember first discovering his work on the J&L; Books website in the special...
11.13.2018
Jack Woody
I think I first came across Jack Woody’s name after buying a Duane Michals called Album years ago. I remember thinking that it was so elegant, so beautifully printed and layed out, that I was curious who was behind it....
10.09.2018
Farah Al Qasimi
Last month, I went to visit Farah Al Qasimi at her home and studio in Williamsburg. After talking with her, I thought about her space and how both her studio and her living area represented different parts of her in...
08.08.2018
Hugh Edwards
In 1972, more than a decade after I had taken up photography in earnest, I returned to Hyde Park to visit with Hugh Edwards. By then Edwards had retired from his position as Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at...
06.20.2018
Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon is a living legend in photography. Born in 1942 to a Russian-Jewish mother and German-Jewish father, he grew up in Kew Gardens, Queens and went on to study history and philosophy at the University of Chicago. Beginning in...
05.15.2018
John Edmonds
A friend recently told me that John Edmonds pictures of african American men in Do-Rags were the first photo's that had the power to completely change his perception. It reminded me of something which Dorothea Lange said, which was, “The...
04.19.2018
Rosalind Fox Solomon
It was a true honour to meet with Rosalind Fox Solomon, just a few days shy of her 88th birthday. It’s often noted how she came to photography later than most when she was close to 40, but i couldn’t...
03.12.2018
Erin Jane Nelson
For the past little while, Atlanta based artist Erin Jane Nelson has been travelling to barrier islands, monuments and sites relating to climate change to make photographs. Her pictures, though, serve as her starting points to what become elements in...
02.05.2018
Gus Powell
In this episode, Jordan Weitzman sits down with Gus Powell at his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Powell is the author of two monographs, The Company of Strangers (J&L; Books) and The Lonely Ones (J&L; Books), and is currently...
01.08.2018
Siobhán Bohnacker
Jordan Weitzman goes behind the scenes with Siobhán Bohnacker, senior photo editor at the New Yorker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10.23.2017
Elle Pérez
"How do you make a good portrait of someone?" Jordan Weitzman asks Elle Perez. "You love them." Listen to their conversation to hear about their work as a photographer and educator. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
09.21.2017
Ian Lewandowski
Ian Lewandowski gets together with Jordan Weitzman in Montreal to talk about his work steeped portraiture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
07.07.2017
Episode 13 | Teju Cole
Celebrated author, critic and photographer talks to Jordan Weitzman about his work as a critic, writing On Photogrpahy for the New York Times, and his new book of photos and Text, Blind Spot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
05.04.2017
Mark Steinmetz
Jordan Weitzman visits Mark Steinmetz at his home in Athens, Georgia to talk about his work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
04.07.2017
Bryson Rand
Jordan Weitzman sits down with photographer Bryson Rand at his home in Bushwick in to talk about his work Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
03.08.2017
Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland talks about her new book with Aperture, Highway Kind, comprised of pictures that she took while making cross country road trip with her young son, Casper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's Magic Hour about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Magic Hour episodes:

Olivian Cha

Roxana Marcoci

S*an D. Henry-Smith

Giulia Zorzi

Genesis Baez

Rahim Fortune

Baldwin Lee

Gary Schneider

Matthew Leifheit

Linda Rosenkrantz

Terri Weifenbach

Billy Sullivan

Dayanita Singh

Stephen Koch

Shala Miller

Anne Turyn

Moyra Davey

Michael Marcelle

Mary Manning

Drew Sawyer

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

Vince Aletti

Carmen Winant

Allen Frame

Patrice Aphrodite Helmar

Matt Grubb

Bruno Ceschel

Episode 32 | Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Jeff Burton

Jo Ann Callis

Mark McKnight

Marcelo Gabriel Yanez

Susan Meiselas

Mary Frey

Rory Mulligan

Jack Woody

Farah Al Qasimi

Hugh Edwards

Danny Lyon

John Edmonds

Rosalind Fox Solomon

Erin Jane Nelson

Gus Powell

Siobhán Bohnacker

Elle Pérez

Ian Lewandowski

Episode 13 | Teju Cole

Mark Steinmetz

Bryson Rand

Justine Kurland

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