M.H. Rubin
Co-Host of Everyday Photography, Every Day
Rubin's pedigree swings wide: making movies with Bernardo Bertolluci; premastering CDs for the Grateful Dead; developing the “paint-your-own pottery” studio industry; years at Netflix... but through it all he’s been a passionate photographer and collector. Last summer he left his Senior Innovator role at Adobe to focus on his fine art photography. Even as he began to show and sell his work, the frustrations he experienced in printing and framing led to the creation of Neomodern in 2017.
M.H. Rubin has hosted 114 Episodes.
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114: The Quirky World of Maggie Taylor
14 June 2020 | Season 4 | 56 mins 17 secs
art, photography
Maggie Taylor is a fine art photographer who transitioned from creating real-world still-life collages into being a master of Adobe Photoshop creating photo montages. Her whimsical creations have been called surreal, but they're perhaps better described as "quirky".
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113: Catching Up: Kertesz, Home Projects
7 June 2020 | Season 4 | 20 mins 25 secs
art, photography
In which Suzanne and Rubin review their thoughts on Kertesz and her home project and generally catch up.
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112: Inside Kertesz, with Curator Robert Gurbo
29 May 2020 | Season 4 | 1 hr 9 secs
art, photography
Andre Kertesz had a long and multi-faceted career throughout the 20th century, producing some of the most iconic, modern, and often enigmatic photos in history. His influence is profound, and it was a pleasure to sit down today with Robert Gurbo, curator of the Kertesz estate and domain expert on this fascinating photographer.
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111: The Power of Photography, with Gallerist Peter Fetterman
21 May 2020 | Season 4 | 49 mins
art, photography
Peter Fetterman offers rich insights into photography collecting and being collected, and the sheer magic in great photographs. As one of the pre-eminent gallerists of photography for decades, his delightful personal tales about the artists is a joy. Listen in!
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110: Projects in Quarantine
14 May 2020 | Season 4 | 23 mins 1 sec
art, photography
Here's a short episode where we go over a few projects you can do at home, with no supplies but a phone, and practice key skills that will make your pictures better.
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109: The Photographer of Santa Cruz, Shmuel Thaler
7 May 2020 | Season 4 | 49 mins 14 secs
art, photography
It's hard to think about photography in Santa Cruz without discovering Shmuel Thaler, the leading photojournalist at the Santa Cruz Sentinel. He's been documenting the community since the late 1980s: from earthquakes and fires, to surfers and dancers--the fabric and heart of the town.
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108: Masterskills from Jeff Carlson
25 April 2020 | Season 4 | 50 mins 6 secs
art, photography
Carlson has written an astonishing array of books over his career, explaining a range of creative and technical topics--perhaps 20 of them related to photography. His newest book on Luminar is out this week, so it seemed a great time to say hi and hear what driving him!
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107: The Duologues of Nina Kling
17 April 2020 | Season 4 | 43 mins 21 secs
art, photography
I'd never heard the term "rhyme" used so perfectly to describe a visual experience before... but the wonderful pairings NYC photographer Nina Kling are delightful, mysterious, and enormously satisfying.
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106: A Walk Down Memory Lane with Angelica Glass
29 March 2020 | Season 4 | 48 mins 20 secs
art, photography
Angelica Glass is an inspiration to passionate amateur photographers. 6 years ago, on a whim, she decided to walk the length of every street and trail in the county of Santa Cruz, taking photos on each, and choosing only one image to represent it. Over the course of five and a half years, she has walked all of the 4,121 streets in the county.
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105: Life in Captivity: Free Workshops on Photography
20 March 2020 | Season 4 | 21 mins 24 secs
art, covid, crafts, photography, projects, quarantine, workshop, zen
It's a bleak time for many, and insane stress for us all -- but there are a few advantages to being forced to stay in. Rubin has converted Neomodern from a retail business to a free program of projects to build people's photographic skills: not tech skills but creative ones. Using the content from his Zen Arts curriculum, daily projects designed to help folks stuck at home.
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104: Photography as a Zen Art
2 March 2020 | Season 4 | 32 mins 36 secs
art, philosophy, photography, zen
Rubin formally declares his upcoming book for beginners and pros -- finding a philosophical foundation for creative picture taking: the Zen Arts. There are lessons from haiku, kintsugi, enso, ikebana, bonsai and origami (and the principles of wabi-sabi) if you know how to find them. Not how to use photography to practice zen, but how to use zen arts to get better at photography!
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103: Zero-Prep Shoot, a Valentine's Special
14 February 2020 | Season 4 | 38 mins 6 secs
art, photography
In this episode Suzanne grills Rubin on a recent shoot he did that he described as unusually good--what would make one shoot notably different or better than the hundreds that have gone before? Rubin discusses his improvisational approach and digs into some of the issues of being a hetrosexual man who frequently photographs women.
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102: The Six Types of Photographers
9 February 2020 | Season 4 | 37 mins 41 secs
art, photography
After Rubin's Petapixel essay went viral a few weeks ago, he's been digging into photographic fundamentals; Suzanne and Rubin dig into the ways we compose and how it interacts with our basic tendencies. The show is practically therapy.
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101: Natural Harmony with Foto Kammer
1 February 2020 | Season 4 | 40 mins 1 sec
art, fine art, nude, photography
Our first anonymous guest, who has a day job in Silicon Valley, but has an alter ego, Foto-Kammer, who shoots luscious landscapes and lyrically beautiful nudes, and whose work explores the natural harmony of humans in the landscape.
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100: Shiva and her Nudes
25 January 2020 | Season 4 | 49 mins 13 secs
art, fine art, nude, photography
After a career as a fine art nude model, Shiva Sharifi today photographs nude and boudoir as well as organizes workshops to introduce photographers to this specialty, coordinating models and students in great settings. She has a wealth of experiences on both sides of the camera in this domain.
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99: Creativity and the Creative Process
18 January 2020 | Season 3 | 38 mins 57 secs
art, photography
It's the 99th episode, and Suzanne and Rubin catch up on holiday events, the state of their photography, and Neomodern's current Kickstarter project for a new kind of photographer's frame.