TCF Ep. 247 - Bill Pierce

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Bill Pierce's photojournalistic work has been published in Time, Life, Stern, Newsweek, U.S. News, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York Magazine, L'Express, Paris Match, and many other news publications. Assignments in the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Poland, Czechoslovkia, Australia, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Lebanon, Egypt, Mozambique. His major awards include Overseas Press Best Photoreporting from Abroad, World Press Budapest Award and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He is in the permanent collections of Nat’l. Portrait Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, International Center of Photography, New York Public Library, The Center for Creative Photography, Princeton University and private collectors. Resources: http://www.billpiercepictures.com/index2.php http://www.kennethjarecke.com/ http://ibarionex.net/thecandidframe info@thecandidframe.com

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0:00.0	This is IbarianX and welcome to The Candid Frame.
0:13.2	Well, summer is almost over, but there's a lot to look forward to in the fall, not least of which are some great interviews here on TCF.
0:22.7	Today is an interview that I know you're going to enjoy, and if so, I want to solicit your
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1:17.7	what it is today. Several weeks ago, I released one of the most popular episodes of the year,
1:24.1	an interview with photojournalist Arthur Grace. When I asked him the question about
1:29.3	what photographer he would recommend listeners to discover, he recommended today's guest, Bill Pierce,
1:35.4	who was a great photographer in his own right. Suffice it to say that if you enjoyed my interview
1:41.6	with Arthur, you are in for a treat today, not only
1:44.8	with respect to the stories of his own career, but also about his time under the tutelage
1:50.1	of master photographer W. Eugene Smith. We began our conversation with talk about those early
1:57.0	influences.
2:10.3	Well, Wally was my neighbor, and let's put it this way.
2:13.8	INS was essentially UPI at that time.
2:20.8	There were two big news organizations. In Pittsburgh, which was where I lived,
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