227 - Linda Troeller

A Small Voice: Conversations With Photographers

Linda Troeller’s art projects focus on self-portraits, women's and social issues. For 20 year she lived in the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York City, curating an exhibition for the 125th Anniversary, “Chelsea Hotel Through the Eyes of Photographers”, and publishing a monograph of her own entitled Living in the Chelsea Hotel.

Other publications include Healing Waters, The Erotic Lives of Women and her newest book of self-portraits taken over almost fifty years, Sex, Death, Transcendence, published earlier this year (2024) by TBW books. Linda was also the subject of a 2023 feature-length documentary film, also entitled Healing Waters, directed by Derek Johnson and Ali Scattergood.

She has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, NYU, Parsons, Yale, Salzburg Summer Art Academy, New Orleans Photo Alliance, and Ryerson University, Toronto and was a professor of photography at Stockton College of New Jersey, Indiana University, and Bournemouth College, England. She has a MFA, School of Art, and MS, Newhouse School, Syracuse University and BS from Reed School of Journalism, West Virginia University.

Linda lives in New York City and New Jersey.

In episode 227, Linda discusses, among other things:

• Modelling on an Ansel Adams book making workshop
• The experience of being nude in front of strangers
• The spirit of the 60s in the 70s + women’s lib
• Healing waters
• Societies expectations of women and ageing
• Her book, The Erotic Lives of Women
• Living in the Chelsea Hotel for 20 years
• How Alexander MacQueen influenced her visual palette
• How she has earned a living over the years
• Her TB/Aids project

Referenced:

• Lucien Clergue
• Eikoh Hosoe
• George Tice
• Judy Dater
• Imogen Cunningham
• Jack Welpott
• Robert Heinecken
• Lee Friedlander
• Melissa Shook

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