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Victor Schrager |
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Date of Birth: September 16, 1950
- Location: New York, New York. - Profession: Photographer - What are you most excited about right now? I am curious about extending the visual vocabulary I developed in my "Composition as Explanation" (books) series into explorations of other subject matter. Right now I am most excited, in a nervous/perverse mode, about photographing edible things - that might be thought of in the context of classical old master still-lifes of food, but with the visual sensibility that comes from a very different place. This tension is interesting to me. - Who or what has influenced you the most? C Lots of people - Frederick Sommer, Josef Sudek, Irving Penn, Edward Weston, Adolf Braun, Roger Fenton, Philip Guston, Morandi...... How? Obviously connected to my interest in still life, but also people who created their own visual vocabulary within which they were free to indulge their personal curiosity. Another way of saying this: these people (and many others of course) achived a detente with their contemporary culture which left them free to indulge their most personal, intimate visual instincts. - What is your biggest road block when it comes to working? I have a "day job" (commercial photography assignments) which is actually quite stimulating but doesn't often leave large blocks of free time. - What do you hope to do in the future? More of the same. - Does your work fufill you? Very much. - What antagonizes you the most? Wasting time that could be spent working. - What is your working space like? A SoHo basement studio dedicated to still life - very functional. - What makes you do what you do? It's more that doing anything else would be excruciatingly boring and unfulfilling. - Explain a formative moment or idea for you. I can't really ever remember getting my ideas - I just start doing them - it's like trying to remember what it was like not to be able to read. [Close Interview] |