It will always be hard

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 16 September 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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When the photographer Garry Winogrand died in 1984 he left behind hundreds of thousands of unpublished negatives and undeveloped rolls of film and a few out of print books that are still treasured by connoisseurs and photo book collectors today. It’s always bothered Leo Rubinfien that his friend Garry’s legacy is bound up with these hard to find books, for leo a much better way to appreciate the genius of Garry Winogrand is through his slideshows. Recently Leo Rubinfien got an opportunity to show the world the Garry Winogrand he knew and loved, SFMOMA invited him to guest curate a Winogrand show. The exhibit took years to put together, and at the outset SFMOMA’s assistant curator of photography Erin O’toole was nervous, but she tells us why she is now in the cult of Winogrand too. While your host was in Australia this summer he met up with one of his new favorite artists, the cartoonist Simon Hanselmann. Simon is one of the most compelling voices of his generation, but while his characters are all sex, drugs, and rock and roll Simon just works. Also we reminisce about the early days of the web with ToE regular Peter Choyce who believes he had one of the first ten blogs. Three reminders that being an artist will always be hard.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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1:27.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's theory of everything.
1:31.0	This installment is called, it will always be hard.
1:37.0	When the photographer Gary Winnigrand died in 1984, he left behind hundreds of thousands of unpublished negatives and undeveloped roles of film,
1:46.0	and a few out-of-print books that are still treasured by connoisseurs and photo book collectors today.
1:52.0	There was a book on zoo animals called The Animals. and photo book
1:54.0	book book on zoo animals called The Animals.
1:54.8	There was a book on beautiful women called
1:56.6	Women or Beautiful.
1:58.3	There was a book on the Fort Worth livestock show and Show and Rodeo called Stock Photographs.
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