Artist Interviews

SFMOMA is committed to partnering with the most forward-thinking artists of our time and bringing their visions to life. Here, in their own words, many of these artists share their creative process and their stories.

Nobuyoshi Araki’s “more is more” approach to photography

Daido Moriyama on the essence of photography

Kikuji Kawada on the Atomic Bomb Dome and postwar Japan

Ishiuchi Miyako’s early life near Yokosuka’s U.S. military base

Keizo Kitajima in the former USSR

Asako Narahashi’s photos from the sea

Hiromi Tsuchida: Documenting Japan’s past and present

Ishiuchi Miyako: What is a scar?

Issei Suda on the drama of photography

Daido Moriyama on social rebellion in 1960s Japan

Jürg Lehni’s extraordinary drawing machine

Thomas Schütte: Playing with materials

Robert Frank on photographing The Americans

Dana Schutz on the personalities of paintings

Anthony Hernandez: Peeling away the layers of the Mojave Desert

Robert Adams: Photographing a “landscape of mistakes”

Ron Nagle: The sculptural language of hair loss

Ron Nagle on the ceramic “revolution”

László Moholy-Nagy's shadow play

Ken Hakuta: My uncle Nam June Paik

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