Photographer Spotlight: Jeff Cowen [VIDEO]
By Michael KurcfeldApril 1, 2014
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Photo: "Yuki", 2005. Jeff Cowen, courtesy Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Köln & New York
Jeff Cowen is an American art photographer based in Berlin who is best known for his collages and photo murals. He worked as an assistant for master American photographers Larry Clark from 1988–1990, and for Ralph Gibson from 1990-1992. In recent years he has had solo shows in Berlin, Paris, Oslo, Köln, Moscow, Basel, Munich, Madrid, Miami, Barcelona, and New York. Here he is interviewed by Michael Kurcfeld for LARB's ongoing series, produced by Kurcfeld, on contemporary photography.
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Michael Kurcfeld is a journalist, originally from the print world, but since 1990 working in electronic media. Since founding Stonehenge Media, he has produced film and arts coverage for NYTimes.com, WSJ.com, Huffington Post, PBS, Bravo, Yahoo Movies, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and Film.com. He produces the Photographer Spotlight series for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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