Conversations with Contemporary Photographers

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Conversations is a landmark series in photography, featuring extensive, in-depth interviews on aesthetics, craft, and culture with living masters and major international critics from Australia, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries, including new interviews commissioned especially for this collection.

The book traces the heritage of the medium in a fascinating dozen informal discourses and topics ranging from the personal to the political, covering intimate detail and theoretical background alike. Complete with biographies, bibliographies, and self-portraits of each featured artist, it is both a vital record of the best in contemporary photography and an engaging read.

Artists and interviewers include:

• Max Pam by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
• Bernard Plossu with Juan Manuel Bonet
• Miguel Rio Branco with Tereza Siza
• William Klein with Eric Daviron
• Alex Webb with Max Kozloff
• Joan Fontcuberta with Cristina Zeklich
• Graciela Iturbide with Fabienne Bradu
• Javier Vallhonrat with Santiago Olmo
• Philip Lorca di Corcia with Nan Richardson
• Duane Michals with Enrica Vigano
• Thomas Struth and more