TCF Ep. 555 - Sarah Meister

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sarah Meister became a Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in 2009, having joined the Department of Photography in 1997. Her research has included exploring narratives around twentieth century photography in Latin America, one result of which was the acquisition of more than fifty Brazilian modernist photographs. Her books have included One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016) and Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017). She was also a co-editor of and contributing author to the three volume series Photography at MoMA (1960 to Now, 1920 to 1960, and 1840 to 1920 [forthcoming]), co-director of the August Sander Project (with Noam Elcott), and the lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs on Coursera. Working with the Gordon Parks Foundation, she curated a book and exhibition of Park’s work based on a Life Magazine assignment in the late 1950s, The Atmosphere of Crime 1957. Meister will soon be leaving MOMA to head the photographic non-profit organization, Aperture. Websites Sarah Meister The Gordon Parks Foundation Gertrudes Altschul Sponsor Charcoal Book Club - Sign up today Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by Charcoal Book Club.
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0:51.7	Of the many photographers
0:53.3	who I wished I could have interviewed, but never got the chance to, was Gordon Parks.
0:59.5	Thankfully, I had the chance to meet him several times, including a couple of hours at his apartment in New York City, just across the way from the United Nations building.
1:10.1	It was rather a surreal experience. As he sat there having
1:14.3	breakfast of a poached egg and coffee, I looked around the apartment that was filled with items
1:19.7	of his career and life. I recognized so many things, having read his first two autobiographies.
1:27.2	The galley of his third was sitting on the coffee
1:30.7	table in front of me, with prints he was considering for its publication. He was kind and
1:37.1	generous, but despite that, I was incredibly nervous, so much so that I didn't even think
1:43.8	to ask to make his photograph.
1:47.0	Nevertheless, I have a wonderful memory.
1:51.0	When the latest collection of his photographs, the Atmosphere of Crime,
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