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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Mary Ellen Matthews

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

From pop stars to sports legends to rock gods, Mary Ellen Matthews has been crafting iconic images as an entertainment portrait photographer for over two decades. She joins to talk about her career as the chief photographer for Saturday Night Live and how she’s created the distinctive look for the show’s images since 1999.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I just thought I got to put someone in an olive costume and put them in a and put them

0:12.0

in a martini glass and I don't know I don't know where that came from but but he was the

0:15.8

guy and the Pimento cap.

0:21.6

From the tat audio collective this is design matters with Debbie Milman.

0:28.8

18 years Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about

0:32.8

what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working

0:37.1

on.

0:38.6

On this episode photographer Mary Ellen Matthews talks about celebrity portraiture and

0:43.5

how she knows when she's nailed a great shot.

0:46.4

You just do, you just do, when it just feels right.

0:54.7

You ever feel like your laptop just keeps going but you are completely drained.

1:00.2

I think a lot of us don't realize how much pain we live in because of our interactions

1:05.5

with computing.

1:06.8

NPR's Body Electric, a special interactive series investigating how to fix the relationship

1:13.5

between our tech and our health.

1:16.3

Listen in the Ted Radio Hour feed wherever you get your podcasts.

1:21.1

When we think of Saturday Night Live we think of sketch comedy, monologues and musical

1:26.3

acts.

1:27.5

But the show has also had a profound effect on America's visual culture.

1:33.0

Think of the opening sequences in its stream of still photos.

1:37.1

It made New York City look gritty, glamorous and irresistible.

1:42.3

And the guest portraits usually shown between commercial breaks are a spectacular catalog

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