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 90 Episodes.
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90: Looking and Collecting, with Gallerist Catherine Couturier
9 November 2019 | Season 3 | 56 mins 14 secs
art, photography
How does a person learn to look at photographs? Is it just staring or is there a more methodical way to gauge that a photo is great? In this special 2-in-1 episode, we begin by briefly exploring Rubin's approach and then settle into a fantastic exploration of collecting with Houston's premiere photography gallery owner, Catherine Couturier, who walks us through her process and other thoughts on collecting and being collected.
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89: Haunted: The Sensual Identity of Sophie Dimond
3 November 2019 | Season 3 | 41 mins 56 secs
art, fine art, nude, photography
Photographer, and subject of her own introspective and sensual photographs, Sophie Dimond seems to roam the landscape wrestling with her past. Her beautiful work is created with traditional methods, on medium format film as well as with Polaroids, and is both spooky and alluring.
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88: Learning to Play, with Jerry Downs
25 October 2019 | Season 3 | 41 mins 33 secs
art, photography
Photographer and teacher Jerry Downs has been taking pictures for more than 50 years, and inspiring other picture takers along the way. His spiritual approach is delightful; and anyone would benefit from engaging with him. We sat down to get to know Jerry better and understand more about his philosophy and background. Listen in!
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87: Winners of the Fall Show
20 October 2019 | Season 3 | 32 mins 13 secs
art, photography
On this special episode we'll meet the photographers from San Francisco who were selected to show in a group exhibition at Neomodern. They represent a range of subjects, ages, cameras and styles--we took a few minutes during the show to dig in a little deeper.
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86: The Photographer's Photographer, Rick Smolan
13 October 2019 | Season 3 | 46 mins 28 secs
art, photography
Rick's career spans amazing gigs at Time, LIFE and National Geographic; he's been played on the silver screen by Adam Driver, and his creative Day in the Life projects have touched millions. He's also the guy who convinced me to move into digital from film (and get a Fujifilm camera --even though he talks about his Sony today...).
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85: Pricing Photos
9 October 2019 | Season 3 | 34 mins 49 secs
art, photography
As Neomodern gets ready for a gallery show this week, we debate issues in pricing photos, collecting photos and, actually, whether we can call them "art"
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84: Noticing Things, with Mark Citret
22 September 2019 | Season 3 | 43 mins
art, photography
Citret has studied with so many historic icons: Ansel Adams, Pirkle Jones, Willy Ronis... and has taught students, and has influenced my own photography for years. It's a treat to get to sit with him for a bit and talk about pictures.
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83: Private, with Artist Jason Langer
14 September 2019 | Season 3 | 42 mins 11 secs
art, photography
Langers photography is poetic, but the photographer has a lot he articulates beautifully about why we take pictures and how we look at them. Truly one of the best conversations about photography I've had in ages. A must for any new photography fan.
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82: Photographing Burning Man
8 September 2019 | Season 3 | 30 mins 8 secs
art, photography
Just back from my first Burn--after 30 years of consciously choosing not to go --I thought this would be a photographic paradise, but i was schooled.
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81: Balance with Brooks!
13 August 2019 | Season 2 | 33 mins 39 secs
art, photography
We met Brooks Fletcher when we started working with Peak Design. But not everyone you bump into in the workworld is as interesting a photographer and artist. Introducing Brooks!
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80: Our Photo (Party) Game
8 August 2019 | Season 2 | 23 mins 6 secs
art, photography
Can you really have a podcast about photography? Suzanne and Rubin explore the benefits of talking about the visual--and invent a game in the process! Try it-->
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79: Death and Pictures
3 August 2019 | Season 2 | 21 mins 48 secs
art, death, photography
Where Suzanne and Rubin explore the painful conflict between processing grief and the desire to take photos.
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78: A Million Pictures with Thomas Hawk
28 July 2019 | Season 2 | 36 mins 59 secs
art, photography
Hawk is the quintessential passionate photographic hobbiest, with a goal on publishing a million images over the course of his life.
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77: "Take her picture. Let her see what you see."
21 July 2019 | Season 2 | 21 mins 42 secs
art, photography
Morning meandering thoughts on life with a camera and the lessons of using film, even if you've never used film. Many lessons for beginners here.
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76: Not Quite the Quote Show
14 July 2019 | Season 2 | 25 mins 25 secs
art, photography
When Suzanne and Rubin take a break from guests and dig into some of their favorite quotations about photography, and other meandering photographic thoughts.
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75: Risk, with Documentarian Andrea Pritchard
6 July 2019 | Season 2 | 39 mins 57 secs
art, metoo, photography, women
Pritchard's new award-winning documentary (Risk: Women on the Frontline) shines light on three remarkable photojournalists.