A Minimal Event

A Minimal Event

By Andrej Gregov, Helen Miller, Chris LetcherArtsVisual Arts
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A Minimal Event episodes

  • On alternative processes and teaching photography

    In episode 21 we discuss Andrej’s foray into teaching classes and workshops. We also discuss alternative photographic processes and how analog photographers are rediscovering 100+ year old methods for making images.

    Episode 21, 60 minutes
    Show Notes
    • Cyanotype examples gallery
    • Vandyke Notes by Wynn White
      • Vandyke print, made from a digital negative, in the development stage
      Andrej Gregov, 2026

      1 hr
    • Show update and recent exhibitions

      We’re back with episode 20 with an update on what we’ve been up to during our unplanned show hiatus. We also discuss some gallery/museum exhibitions we saw over the past year or so.

      Episode 20, show update, 32min
      Show Notes
      • Tristan Duke Glacial Optics, Artist website
      • Todd Hido at Casemore Gallery, San Francisco 2024
      • Deana Lawson at the Tate, 2025
      • Exhibition Anselm Kiefer, Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2025
      • Turning the Page, Pier 24, San Francisco final exhibition
        • Tristan Duke, Weighing Anchor at Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, 2022
        Ice lens photograph pigment print, 42 × 63 inches
        Todd Hido, House Hunting
        Complete collection of cinematic houses at night, C-prints
        Casemore Gallery, 2024
        Deanna Lawson, Seagulls in Kitchen, 2017
        Anselm Kiefer, exhibition walkthrough
        32 min
      • More on collage with the Alterations show

        For episode 19, we continue our conversation about collage and photography with the Alterations exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest this past Spring. The podcast was recorded last April (2024).

        Episode 19, Alterations review, 42min
        Show Notes
        • Alterations show website (Archived – PCNW)
        • F.A.M.I.L.Y series piece, by Miranda July (Instagram)
          • Sadie Wechsler
          Natalie Krick, Bikini Line
          hand cut digital c prints + resin on panel, 24 x 30 inches
          Laura Hart Newlon, Heavy Focus, 2021, Video
          Jaleesa M Johnston, Between Contact series
          Collage, wood panel
          Deborah Faye Lawrence, Vertigo A-Go-Go, 2010
          Paper collage, acrylic and varnish on wood panel and frame, 28.25 x 22.25 inches
          Alterations Show Text
          Photographic Center Northwest
          42 min
        • Collage, photomontage and The Rose exhibition

          For Episode 18, we discuss collage and photomontage as it relates to photography and thoughts on the Portland show, The Rose, curated by curated by Justine Kurland.

          Episode 18, The Rose review, 50min
          Show Notes
          • The Rose, curated by Justine Kurland at the lumber room
          • The Rose: A Conversation with Justine Kurland, Keisha Scarville and Kim Bourus 7.30.23, YouTube
          • The lumber room: Sarah Miller Meigs collaborates to create a visionary art domicile for Portland, The Oregonian
          • SCUM Manifesto, Wikipedia
          • Hannah Höch, MOMA
          • Sarah Charlesworth Studio
            • Keisha Scarville, Passports, 2013-2023.
            Mixed media.
            Martha Naranjo Sandoval, from Petén 411 series, Main Entrance, 2017.
            C-prints paper collage.
            Ruth Asawa, Untitled (PF.268, Chrysanthemums), c.1960-1969.
            Brown and green ink on technical paper.
            Tatiana Florival, Pegeron Sisters, 2021-2023, Digital video. Trailer.
            The Rose, 2023; Installation view, lumber room
            The Rose, 2023; Installation view, lumber room
            51 min
          • A/political Rocks Exhibit

            In episode 17, we discuss a local Seattle show of landscape images covering a span of the first 100 years of photography including work from Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, Edward Weston and up to some of the New Topographic photographers.

            Episode 17, A/political Rocks review, 1hr 2min
            Krauss Photographys Discursive SpacesDownload
            Show Notes
            • A/political Rocks, Henry Art Gallery (7/22/2023 — 1/14/2024)
            • Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality, Smithsonian Magazine
            • Scavenger, Jenny Riffle
            • Eugène Atget, MOMA
            • California on Fire, Jeff Frost
              • Canyon de Chelle, 1873
              Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Albumen silver print
              Tufa Domes, Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 1867
              Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Albumen silver print
              El Capitan, Sunrise, 1956
              Ansel Adams, Gelatin silver print
              Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, 1938
              Edward Weston, Gelatin silver print
              South St. Vrain Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado, 1979
              Robert Adams, Gelatin silver print
              Scenes from Yosemite Valley – Inspiration Point, 1977
              Ted Orland, Hand colored gelatin silver print
              1 hr 3 min
            • Bernd & Hilla Becher, SFMOMA Retrospective

              For episode 16, the team takes a trip to San Francisco to see the retrospective for Bernd & Hilla Becher at SFMOMA. We’ll discuss the history of the photographers, their impact to contemporary photography and our own thoughts on their work.

              Episode 16, Becher Show Review, 48min
              Show Notes
              • Bernd & Hilla Becher, SFMOMA (12/22-4/23)
              • Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening | Met Exhibitions, YouTube
              • The Bechers in Ohio, 1987 | From the Vaults, YouTube
              • What Bernd and Hilla Becher Saw in the Remnants of Industry, New Yorker (11/8/22)
              • A class apart: a new show explores the radical approach of the Bechers and their students, Wallpaper (10/20/22)
              • The New Topographics photographers, Minimal Event Podcast, Episode #9
                • Bernd & Hilla Becher @ SFMOMA, 2023
                Frame Houses, 1959-72
                Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gelatin silver prints
                Collection of Jeffery Fraenkel and Alan Mark (SFMOMA)
                Water Tower, Verviers, Belgium, 1983
                Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gelatin silver print
                Metropolitan Museum of Art (SFMOMA)
                Winding Towers, Belgium, France, 1967-88
                Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gelatin silver prints
                SFMOMA Collection
                Cooling Tower, Zeche Mont Cenis, Herne, Rhur Region, Germany, 1965
                Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gelatin silver print
                Collection of James Keith Brown and Eric Diedenbach (SFMOMA)
                Blast Furnaces (12ft long exhibit wall, images from 8 countries)
                Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gelatin silver prints
                SFMOMA
                49 min
              • Trevor Paglen on NASA images

                For episode 15, we have a quick take on artist Trevor Paglen’s recent thoughts on truthfulness of NASA images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

                Trevor Paglen’s on NASA JWST images – 16m
                Show Notes
                • Trevor Paglen’s Twitter thread on JWST images
                • James Webb Space Telescope first images
                • Watch How NASA Colorizes the James Webb Telescope Images (YouTube)
                • Photographs of Trevor Paglen – Minimal Event Podcast #1
                  • Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
                  17 min
                • Imogen Cunningham retrospective

                  For episode 14, we’re joined by photographer Tara Champion who helps us discuss artist Imogen Cunningham and a recent retrospective of her work we visited at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM).

                  Imogene Cunningham at the SAM – 38 min
                  Show Notes
                  • Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM)
                  • Grand daughter Meg Partridge on Imogen Cunningham (YouTube)
                  • Ruth Asawa
                  • Martha Graham
                  • An In-Depth History of Group f.64
                  • Sample images from Group f.64
                  • Tara Champion : Photographer and Educator

                  Flax, 1926
                  Imogen Cunningham, Gelatin silver print
                  The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
                  Australian Plant, negative ca. 1940; print 1968
                  Imogen Cunningham, Silver-dye bleach print (Cibachrome)
                  Collection of The Imogen Cunningham Trust
                  A Man Ray Version of Man Ray, 1961
                  Imogen Cunningham, Gelatin silver print
                  The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
                  Dennis Hall with Doll, ca. 1970
                  Imogen Cunningham, Dye diffusion print (Polaroid)
                  Collection of The Imogen Cunningham Trust
                  Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite, 1974
                  Judy Dater, Gelatin silver print
                  The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

                  38 min
                • Interpreting photographic art

                  For episode 13 we’ll be discussing an essay by art critic Carter Ratcliff. Looking through the lens of the seminal documentary photography show “Evidence” by Larry Sulton and Mike Mandel, Ratcliff deep dives on how things like titles and captions influence the way we see art.

                  Podcast length 30m
                  What “Evidence” Says About Art Download
                  Show Notes
                  • Larry Sultan “Evidence” Portfolio Sample
                  • Mike Mandel on Evidence (YouTube)
                  Untitled Evidence, 1977
                  © Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel
                  Untitled Evidence, 1977
                  © Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel
                  Untitled Evidence, 1977
                  © Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel
                  Untitled Evidence, 1977
                  © Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel
                  Spiral Jetty 1970
                  Robert Smithson © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation
                  No. 14, 1960, 1960
                  Mark Rothko © Collection SFMOMA
                  Untitled, 2019
                  Gelatin Silver © Andrej Gregov
                  31 min
                • Artist as curator

                  We’ve been off for the summer and we’ll have new episodes coming soon. Until then, here’s a short conversation about photographers curating their own work that was left on the cutting room floor due to time constraints in the last recording.

                  Artist as Curator – Episode length 8m
                  Push/Pull group exhibition shot
                  Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA, 2021

                  8 min

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                A Minimal Event Podcast is dedicated to critical review of contemporary artists who use photography in their work. The high level objective of the podcast is to help photographers expand their own…