What is your least favorite part of the human body?
Allyson Anne Lamb:I like them all, but I understand a distaste for toes. I like toes.
TMN:When does your work day begin?
Allyson Anne Lamb:After Polaroids.
TMN:What do you want from a finished picture?
Allyson Anne Lamb:To get what I aimed for.
TMN:Which is what?
Allyson Anne Lamb:I want it to match my fantasy. For example, with the cow project, I wanted them to look as if aliens landed in a field and no one was there but these cows. Like if a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, that kind of thing.
TMN:What is your favorite airport?
Allyson Anne Lamb:I couldn’t possibly have one.
TMN:Please try.
Allyson Anne Lamb:The Philadelphia Airport.
TMN:What’s your favorite camera at present?
Allyson Anne Lamb:The one I foolishly mailed to Nigeria.
TMN:Will you be getting it back?
Allyson Anne Lamb:I will not be getting it back. Oops.
TMN:Which do you value more, art as entertainment or art as penicillin?
Allyson Anne Lamb:I guess I’d say penicillin, but I’d rather say art as medicine.
TMN:Do you nap?
Allyson Anne Lamb:I hate naps.
TMN:Do certain colors guide you more than others?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Reds.
TMN:Nipples on men: decorative or necessary?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Necessary. Soon you can see some pictures of my favorite nipple.
TMN:How much do models influence a photograph?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Depends how flexible they are.
TMN:Oldest artist that inspires you?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Recently, Isidore Ducasse.
TMN:Youngest artist that inspires you?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Elektra KB, but she won’t tell me how old she is.
TMN:Do you listen to music while you work?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Yes and no.
TMN:Please elaborate.
Allyson Anne Lamb:Sometimes I listen to music, but often I prefer silence. Or Manu Chao.
TMN:When are you afraid?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Recently.
TMN:How much value do you put into dreams?
Allyson Anne Lamb:I always remember my dreams, and they haunt me, but I am not sure what to do with that.
TMN:Elaine de Kooning said, “Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by.” Do you agree?
Allyson Anne Lamb:No. I am lucky to find it one after the other since I first found it.
TMN:Coffee or tea?
Allyson Anne Lamb:Both.
