Author Archives: Michael Ast

Michael Ast – Photographer, publisher, printmaker

A Work in Progress – “Home Schooling” posted to website

From Home Schooling: “Recent etchings and photographs made within a couple miles of home. An ode of sorts to Gary Snyder and the discipline he’s stressed of knowing one’s own “backyard” first and foremost. Snyder may have been referring to domestic fauna, but as with any poet who gazes intensely into the outer world, he […]

Feature in No Thoughts Magazine, Issue #9

I’m pleased to announce being published in another fine issue of No Thoughts Magazine, “The Music Issue, #9.” My photo from Salzburg graces the back cover, “Punks Not Dead!” Check the issue out. View “Issue #9” at NoThoughtsMagazine.com here

Trying to Find the Ocean, Book Progress

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Just when I’m on the cusp of declaring suburbia a bore . . . .

After a whole lot of cynical thought pertaining to the election, Captain America grabbed my attention on the way to buy a dinner burrito, in glorious backlight. Always annoyed when interrupted with the ubiquitous questioning that probing photographers face, I gave the usual blow-off answer, “Just making some pictures”, when the store manager poked his […]

A Self Reckoning, 2012

Hugar Foote: My Friend from Memphis

“Sometimes I have these photographic dreams, where I’m looking at the shot, I think I’m taking them, or at least I’m looking at them, and they don’t exist – nowhere I’ve ever been. And I wake up with the best feeling in the world. What a nice dream. Then I can’t remember them. These pictures […]

Backyard . . . After Looking at Atget

Owning “The Work of Atget”

I spent a couple quiet hours on Saturday afternoon with these 4 volumes. It has been a long time since I pulled the books down from the shelf. The mood was just right with October doing its transcendental things above and around me. I procured this set from 2 sources over the duration of my […]

Making Progress

Offset press proof of some images featured in my upcoming book “Trying to Find the Ocean” . . . with a little bit of fussing, the printer and I have settled on the right paper stock. Tentative release date is January, 2013. I’ll keep progress posted on my blog here. Thanks for looking, as always.

Michael Ast: Interview with One Giant Arm (9.22.12)

It’s with great pleasure to share my interview with One Giant Arm. Centered in Southwest England (Bristol), OGA showcases the work of emerging artists from around the globe. View “One Giant Arm interview with Michael” here