{"id":2250,"date":"2014-05-19T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2014-05-19T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:51:24","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e37-closed-worlds-with-mark-edward-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E37: Closed Worlds with Mark Edward Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2251\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/markedwardharris.jpg\" alt=\"markedwardharris\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/markedwardharris.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/markedwardharris-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles&#8217; Miracle Mile district with photographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markedwardharris.com\">Mark Edward Harris<\/a>, author of such books as\u00a0<em>Inside North Korea<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Inside Iran<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Art of the Japanese Bath<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Faces of the Twentieth Century<\/em>. They discuss filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami&#8217;s introduction to his Iran book, and his rule about always excluding people from his own photographs; the importance of children in images of Iran and countries like it; how Bruce Lee may or may not have started his interest in Asia back in his San Francisco childhood; how his job on\u00a0<em>The Merv Griffin Show<\/em> came to an end, leaving him free to travel the world and build up his first real portfolio; how he once processed film while traveling, and the lasting thrill he got from first seeing an image appear in the developer; when and how digital cameras first became acceptable; what he learned from Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s early journalistic work with\u00a0<em>Look\u00a0<\/em>magazine (not to mention from\u00a0<em>Dr. Strangelove<\/em>); the countries, of the 90 he has visited, that he finds himself returning to again and again; the restrictions he has to work under when shooting in North Korea; whether the two Koreas still feel in any way connected to him; his interest in revealing the realities of the nations\u00a0once named as members of the &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221;; why Iranian men tend to look like they stepped out of the 1970s; his relationship with the &#8220;discipline and quiet fortitude&#8221; of Japan; how he managed to get into Japanese baths with a camera; whether America&#8217;s\u00a0center of Asia gravity has shifted to Los Angeles, a city friendly to the internationalist; how little work he thinks he&#8217;s done here, and how much he actually\u00a0has; \u00a0and late May&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fotofund.org\">Fotofund<\/a> campaign for his new Iran project.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E37_Mark_Edward_Harris.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles&#8217; Miracle Mile district with photographer\u00a0Mark Edward Harris, author of such books as\u00a0Inside North Korea,\u00a0Inside Iran,\u00a0The Art of the Japanese Bath, and\u00a0Faces of the Twentieth Century. They discuss filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami&#8217;s introduction to his Iran book, and his rule about always excluding people from his own photographs; the importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,5,9,46,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-korea","category-los-angeles","category-north-korea","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}