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.
Michael Kurcfeld
Articles
(Photographer Spotlight) An Art of Uncomfortable Truths: Michael Kurcfeld On Andres Serrano [Video]
(Photographer Spotlight) Portraits and Mysteries: Michael Kurcfeld On Nadav Kander [Video]
LARB Voices: Donovan
Anthony Hernandez: Portraits of a Hidden LA [VIDEO]
A retrospective on photographs of Los Angeles taken by Anthony Hernandez.
Don McCullin: Chronicler of Man's Inhumanity [VIDEO]
Photographer Don McCullin's pictures from hell.
Photographer Spotlight: John Chiara [VIDEO]
Photographer Spotlight: Nick Brandt [VIDEO]
Nick Brandt committed to a 16-year odyssey of capturing the vanishing herds that roam the 2-million-acre Amboseli ecosystem, which straddles Kenya and Tanzania. When viewed at the daunting scale intended, these portraits of sentient beings inspire a visceral appreciation of the megafauna that few other photographers have achieved.
Photographer Spotlight: Stanislas Guigui
Photographer Spotlight: Vee Speers [VIDEO]
Photographer Spotlight: Joakim Eskildsen [VIDEO]
A profile of the Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen, who spent 7 years living with and photographing Roma people around the world.
Photographer Spotlight: Catherine Opie [VIDEO]
Interviewing Catherine Opie on her two new LA exhibits, "Portraits" and "700 Nimes Road", at the Hammer Museum and MOCA Pacific Design Center, respectively.
Photographer Spotlight: Jacqueline Hassink [VIDEO]
Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink devises high-concept projects like Table of Power, a series that explores the symbology of corporate power.
Photographer Spotlight: Soham Gupta [VIDEO]
Gupta's series 'Angst' focuses on Calcutta’s prostitutes, junkies, lepers, and the insane, whom he befriended enough to gain acceptance and collaboration.
Photographer Spotlight: Agnès Varda [VIDEO]
An interview with Agnès Varda for her exhibition 'Varda/Cuba" at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Photographer Spotlight: Frank Horvat [VIDEO]
An interview with Croatian photographer Frank Horvat at the 2015 Paris Photo art fair.
Photographer Spotlight: Raghu Rai [VIDEO]
An interview with India’s most eminent living photographer at the 2015 Delhi Photo Festival
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