Dude

Big Lebowski/Jeff Bridges/Weed

St. Louis slow to change visually

Rate of Urban Renewal in STL

Beginnings as a photographer

“A lot of times when I went out and photographed my mantra was, ‘If I were aware of what people 150 years from right now were interested in, then I would photograph those things. They’d be significant records; historical records. And a photographer, unlike many artists, is really part historian. What they’re doing is recording a reality in time, that changes. So that was meaningful for me to see these changes and to record them. To do a portrait of a place.” - Eastman

Why did Eastman get into photography in the first place?

College years/Entering the workforce

The attraction of photography

The Daybooks of Edward Weston

First Photographs as a “Photographer”

Emotion in photography

“What you feel about a photograph is transmitted, translated, communicated into print.” - Eastman

Photograph things that you have feelings about

Ansel Adams & Others

First photo jobs

“When I started, there was all these voices in my head. There were critics, gallery owners, museum curators, my parents, their friends – there was a Shakespearean chorus of naysayers telling me I couldn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t do it. Those voices propelled me.” - Eastman

Relating Michael’s Story to the concept of Anti-

Eastman’s First Show at Washington University

Maintaining an attitude of incompleteness

Sitting on your work for awhile

Knowing William Gass

Shooting Forest Park & showing them to Gass in his last years

Reinvesting back into yourself

Commercial vs. Fine Art Work

Shooting Nudes as Landscape

Finding success in fine art later in life

Success is the most difficult thing for an artist to overcome

Vivian Maier

Lee Friedlander

Gaining a national reputation with commercial work

Low overhead = more freedom

Learning about studio lighting

Shooting on location

9/11 & No Work

Overview of Eastman’s fine art work

The importance of printmaking

What Eastman’s working on now

When photography became recognized in the art world

Agoraphobia

Childhood fears

A Ghost Story

Composition/Framing

Originality

Cuba

Buena Vista Social Club

Traveling to Cuba

Isabella's Two Chairs

Havana

Book sales lead to gallery openings

Traveling photo show

The Price of Everything

NOLA and Current Photo work

Forest Park Retrospective

Leaving instagram

Waking up with something to do

Feeling mortal