#250: Like the Whos in Whoville

© Addison Scurlock

This week, have the tools taken the mystery out of photography? When you no longer think about technical requirements to make photographs, have we gone too far or is that the point? Also, a couple terrific submissions from listeners — including one that has us marvelling at photos from an earlier time in America. Plus, is there value in keeping meticulous records of your life? We’re celebrating Black History Month by spotlighting African American Photographers of the Week, beginning with Addison Scurlock.

On Taking Pictures – Google+ – Assignment: #atwork

100 Megapixels – New Standard in Advertising Photography – Blair Bunting

‘With film, you can feel the photography’: P.E.I. Photo Lab still developing film – Prince Edward Island – CBC News

Film Photography: Kodak May Resurrect More Than Ektachrome | Time.com

Sports : A Study in Motion : Blair Bunting : Commercial Photographer : LA

A portrait of America

American Civil Rights – Magnum Photos

I Am Not Your Negro: Theater Showtimes & Ticket Purchasing – The Official Showtimes Destination

Joe Rogan Experience #906 – Henry Rollins – YouTube

U2 > News > The Joshua Tree Tour 2017

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer Who Unveiled the Invisible, Dies at 94 – The New York Times

Shealah Craighead is Officially Trump’s Chief White House Photographer

Scurlock, Addison (1883-1964) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed

The Scurlock Studio: Picture of Prosperity | People & Places | Smithsonian

Annie King Phillips: Photography and the Addison Scurlock Family of Photographers – YouTube

The Scurlocks and Black Washington – YouTube

(571) Addison Scurlock Photography on Pinterest

#249: Ancillary Collaboration

© Chuck Stewart

This week, we discuss the seemingly innate skills and abilities of our fathers and grandfathers and how somewhere along the way, that “folk wisdom” was either lost or perhaps no longer needed. Were the skills handed down to them, or simply a byproduct of the time and place in which they lived? Have we evolved? Also, we mention a few terrific documentaries about art and design that are currently available for streaming. Chuck Stewart is our Photographer of the Week.

Metallica Performs “Atlas, Rise!” – YouTube

Popcorn Sutton`s last dam run of Likker [FULL MOVIE] – YouTube

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’ | The Independent

Episode #9: The CIA/AbEx Connection — ArtCurious Podcast

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Amazon.com: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel: Diana Vreeland, Lauren Bacall, Diana Von Furstenberg, Marisa Berenson

Amazon.com: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict: Marina Abramovi?, Dore Ashton, Stephanie Barron, Diego Cortez: Amazon Digital Services LLC

The White House | Flickr

Obama White House | Flickr

Interview with Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza

The President’s Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office – YouTube

The presidents photographer PART 1 – YouTube

One Year with the Pentax 645Z

My Pentax 645z Medium Format Conversion in a Nutshell – Medium

Leica Sofort // Photography – Leica Camera AG

Zink (technology) – Wikipedia

Chuck Stewart – Wikipedia

Chuck Stewart | Credits | AllMusic

Remembering Jazz Photographer Chuck Stewart – The Daily Beast

Chuck Stewart, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 89; – The New York Times

The Jazzy Blue Notes of Reid Miles – Retinart

#248: Albatross Is On The Move

© Rusty Fox

This week, a discussion around the historic worldwide Women’s March on Washington has us wondering “are we so used to things ‘being Photoshopped’ that we ignore actual photographic evidence?” Also, Jeffery gets a faux secret service detail. Plus, getting “the shot” in three minutes — what do you do if you didn’t get it? Has Fuji gotten the feel right with the new X100F and XT-20? Rusty Fox is our Photographer of the Week.

On Taking Pictures – Google+ – Assignment: #wornout

Louis Mendes – Wikipedia

Jeffery Saddoris on Instagram: “That day when #LouisMendes took my photo in front of the Capitol. So cool. Thank you sir for your time and your energy. #streetphotography…”

Tony Mobley (@tmo365) • Instagram photos and videos

“Humanist/Activist.” (@ruddyroye) • Instagram photos and videos

Amazon.com : Leica M (Typ 262) Digital Rangefinder Camera (Black Body Only) : Camera & Photo

What it’s like to have under three minutes to photograph president-elect Trump – The Washington Post

Here’s what the 2007 iPhone’s photos look like – CNET – Page 14

Saving you bandwidth on Google+ through machine learning

Overview of the REDCODE File Format

Amazon.com : Fujifilm X100F 24.3 MP APS-C Digital Camera – Silver (X100F – Silver) : Camera & Photo

Amazon.com : Fujifilm X-T20 Mirrorless Digital Camera – Black (X-T20 Body – Black) : Camera & Photo

Lord Snowdon: more than just a flatterer of the fashionable and famous | Art and design | The Guardian

Rusty Fox Photography

#247: Keep the Nihilist in the Closet

© Luigi Ghirri

This week, we discuss the connection between purpose and happiness. Are they connected? Does one precede the other? What happens to our work when we no longer feel any purpose in engaging in it? Does it merely become practice? If so, to what end? Also, a reflection on the life of Gene Cernan and men like him, who dared to leave their home behind “just to see if they could do it.” Luigi Ghirri is our Photographer of the week.

On Taking Pictures – Google+ – Assignment: #bookCover

2017 Presidential Inauguration

Getting Tickets to the 2017 Inauguration

Studs Terkel “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do”

I Earned More From Photo Gigs in 2016 With My iPhone Than My DSLRs

Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader — Apple – Apple

Download Lightroom for mobile | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile

Home | The Last Man on the Moon

Luigi Ghirri – Wikipedia

Luigi Ghirri – Selected Works – Matthew Marks Gallery

Luigi Ghirri | Dazed

MACK – Luigi Ghirri – Kodachrome

Luigi Ghirri’s Kodachromes Revisited | TIME

#246: If I Start This, Then I’ll Have To Finish It

© Jerry Schatzberg

Sometimes, you need to take stock of the path you’re on to make sure you get where you’re trying to go. Other times, you may need to change the destination entirely. This week, we’re talking about looking at where we are and what to do if it’s just a little off. We’re also talking about new projects and how sometimes just rolling up your sleeves and doing the work is all that matters. Jerry Schatzberg is our Photographer of the Week.

#245: A Higher Form of Noise

© Kurt William Kamka

We’re starting out the new year discussing transformation — specifically, the transformation that seems to be an essential component to making art with a capital ‘A.’ To help with the discussion, we’re using a terrific Netflix documentary series that traces the foundations and evolution of Hip Hop that brilliantly exemplifies transformation at work. Through interviews and archival footage, we see the origin story that took hip hop from back alleys and front rooms in the Bronx to stadiums all over the world. Kurt William Kamka is our Photographer of the Week.

epson p800 | B&H Photo Video

Pete Souza (@petesouza) • Instagram photos and videos

Behind the Lens: 2016 Year in Photographs – The White House – Medium

Depeche Mode Return With Anton Corbijn, New ‘Spirit’ Record And 2017 Tour

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Hip-Hop Evolution

Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock – YouTube

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message – YouTube

Patti Smith Never Wanted to Be Famous – Here’s The Thing – WNYC

La La Land retro poster

Denon Wood Headphones on Amazon

Kurt William Kamka

What’s in the Bag of Kurt Kamka? – YouTube

On Taking Pictures – Google+ – Assignment: #beginning

#244: That’s the Arrow That Got Through

© Rodney Smith

This week, trying to reconcile the highs and lows of the past year and how for some of us, when an artist dies, a little piece of our history or even the personal identity that we have associated with the person (or their body of work) dies as well. It’s as if our potential, whether realized or not is inexorably tied to their energy. Also, a little about what’s next for each of us in 2017. Rodney Smith is our Photographer of the Week. Happy New Year everyone.

#243: Can You Make the Logo Bigger?

© Lori Vrba

© Lori Vrba

This week, we’re starting off with a little about gear, specifically the new Microsoft Surface Studio and the uncertain future of desktop Macs. From there it’s on to David Hockney and a somewhat relativistic view of the “good” of art and whether or not one piece of art is really any better than another. Also, are bigger prints always better? Plus, we take a trip to the Crit Wall. Lori Vrba is our Photographer of the Week.

On Taking Pictures – Google+ – Assignment: #isolation

Saul Leiter in Conversation with Vince Aletti – YouTube

A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen

Hip-Hop Evolution

Inside the Mind of Martha Cooper, Iconic NY Street Photographer & Graffiti Documentarian | The Hundreds

The Genius of Photography – Episode 02: Documents for Artists – Watch Free Documentary Online – BBC, Tim Kirby, Denis Lawson (narrator)

MTA – Arts & Design | NYCT Permanent Art

Union Square ‘Subway Therapy’ Post-It Note Wall Moving to Upper West Side – Upper West Side, NY Patch

Lori Vrba

lori vrba (@lorivrba) • Instagram photos and videos

Kirsty Mitchell Photography

dr5 Film Lab – dr5-B&W-slide – B&W-negative – C41 – E6 – Film Processing World Wide

Edward Snowden tells Jack Dorsey Twitter’s features are ‘painful’ and ‘terrible’

#242: Lack of Stasis

© Jack Davison

© Jack Davison

This week, we discuss TIME’s Person of the Year cover and portfolio, made by Nadav Kandar. Specifically, we unpack questions raised by the potentially subversive nature of the work and whether or not an artist has a responsibility to art before personal belief. As part of the discussion, we also reference a collection of Dorothea Lange’s previously censored photographs of FDR’s Japanese concentration camps. Jack Davison is our Photographer of the Week.

On Taking Pictures – Google+ – Assignment: #framewithinaframe

A Look Into Time Magazine’s Latest Image of ‘Person of the Year’ Donald Trump – Resource Magazine

See Portraits of Donald Trump’s Most Trusted Advisers | TIME

Behind TIME’s Donald Trump Person of the Year Cover | TIME

Platon Tells the Story Behind His Portrait of Vladimir Putin

Green Day are selling all of their albums on cassette with an old school boombox – NME

Jon Wilkening

Nnadav Kander portrait of Scorsese

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps — Anchor Editions

First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber

National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe: Roy A. Gallant, Margaret Sedeen, Michael Collins: 9780792227311: Amazon.com: Books

A rare half-male, half-female butterfly — and other photos of evolutionary wonders – The Washington Post

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II Hands-on Review – YouTube

2016 MKBHD Studio Tour in 360°! – YouTube

Affinity Photo 1.5 – our biggest update yet

(@billwadman) • Instagram Red Camera

(@billwadman) • Instagram Dead Enigma

Henri Cartier Bresson frame within a frame shot

JACK DAVISON

Great Performers: The Portraits – The New York Times

Jack Davison (@jackdavisonphoto) • Instagram photos and videos

#241: The Final Ten Percent Takes Ninety Percent of the Time

© Danny Clinch

© Danny Clinch

This week, details about the OTP Gift Exchange and some of our book suggestions. Also, how would what you make and release into the world — your art — be different if there were negative consequences to showing it? Plus, is it worth it to print all of your photos? Danny Clinch is our Photographer of the Week.

On Taking Pictures – Google+ – Assignment: #decisiveMoment

OTP Gift Exchange Post on G+

Canon EOS 5D Mark III – Wikipedia

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera

A Beautiful Anarchy, “David duChemin”

Saul Leiter: Early Color

Road to Seeing – Dan Winters

Magnum Contact Sheets

Annie Leibovitz at Work

Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits

An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

Regarding Heroes – Yousuf Karsh

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The Crown (TV series) – Wikipedia

Donald Trump wants to ‘close up’ the Internet – Dec. 8, 2015

The future president is blocking people on Twitter like there’s no tomorrow

What It Means To Be An Artist In The Time Of Trump | The Huffington Post

FORSÅ Work lamp – IKEA

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Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies at 90 | TIME

Graham Sutherland – Wikipedia

The Last of Us: Part 2 Reveal Trailer – PSX 2016 – YouTube

My Pentax 645z Medium Format Conversion in a Nutshell – Medium

Danny Clinch

Rock and Roll Photo GOD Danny Clinch the Interview: RAWtalk 138 – YouTube

Anderson Cooper interviews photography “rock star” – CBS News

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