Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
I'm a huge poster collector.
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
My father did advertising photography.