#62: “Artists Aren’t Plumbers”
This week, we do a bit of follow up on last week’s episode, which really seems to have touched a nerve with listeners. At what point does worrying about putting a value on your work keep you from doing your work? Also, Bill contemplates going big for a new project. “Original Mad Man” Bert Stern is our Photographer of the Week.
Show Notes
Only The Lonely « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
5by5 | In Beta #55: Everybody Else Has All The Candy
World’s 27 Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold {NSFW}
How Leica Camera Is Reinventing The Medium-Format Market On Its Own Terms
S-RAW / Home Page – LEICA Camera AG
THE MEXICAN SUITCASE / A film by Trisha Ziff
Media Hint
Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny’s Pictures? (High Definition)
This Week’s Sponsor
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Photographer of the Week
Bert Stern – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bert Stern: Original Madman
Bert Stern, Elite Photographer Known for Images of Marilyn Monroe, Dies at 83
Books
Norman Mailer/Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting
#61: “Happenstance Threw It Over The Line”
Show Notes
This week, we wrestle with “good enough”; what does it really mean, and who gets to decide? Where do we draw the line between homage and just plain thievery? Plus, documentary photographer Martin Parr is our Photographer of the Week.
Patton Oswalt | A CLOSED LETTER TO MYSELF ABOUT THIEVERY, HECKLING AND RAPE JOKES
Dumped! – meg wachter photography
Would You Believe That This Image Is Actually A Single Photo?
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Living and Looking
Throwing shade: how Pixar changed the way light works for ‘Monsters University’
Art, the Art World, and On Taking Pictures
Shut Up And Shoot T-Shirt on Faded + Blurred
Created In Brooklyn: A Conversation With Randy Duchaine on Faded + Blurred
This Week’s Sponsors
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Photographer of the Week
Martin Parr – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin Parr
Martin Parr – Google Search
Books
Martin Parr: Life’s a Beach
The Last Resort
Martin Parr
Small World
#60: The Problem is Always Me
Big discussions this week as we talk about different facets of collaboration and look to dispel The Myth of the Lone Artist. A short film by Eric Becker prompts us to wonder whether or not the world is for want of inspirational material. Plus, classic sports photographer Hy Peskin is our Photographer of the Week.
Links for this episode:
- Miscommunication on Vimeo
- A Life Well Lived | Jim Whittaker & 50 Years of Everest on Vimeo
- Live From Daryl’s House with Daryl Hall :: Homepage
- The 30 Harshest Filmmaker-on-Filmmaker Insults in History – Flavorwire
- Hy Peskin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Story Behind the Photo of Ben Hogan’s 1-Iron Shot in the 1950 U.S. Open
- hy peskin photographs – Google Search
#59: “Food Doesn’t Talk Back”
Show Notes
This week, we talk about getting through a shoot when you feel like a truck ran over you. Also, do retouchers deserve credit? If so, when and how much? Plus, abstract photographer and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Uta Barth is our Photographer of the Week.
How the New National Geographic Cover was Captured with James Cameron
Joe McNally Climbed the Burj Khalifa – NYTimes.com
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5
Review: Adobe Lightroom 5 (Mac version) – The Phoblographer
Apple – Mac Pro
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery :: artists
Should retouchers get equal credit? | Jeremy Cowart
This Week’s Sponsors
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Photographer of the Week
Uta Barth – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uta Barth — MacArthur Foundation
Uta Barth: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation – YouTube
Books
Uta Barth: Contemporary Artists
Uta Barth: The Long Now
Uta Barth: To Draw with Light: Blind Spot Series 03
#58: “Art is Exposure”
This week, we wrestle with whether or not you can be an artist, without locking your own self worth/self image to your art. What does it mean to live a creative life anyway? We weigh in on the firing of the photo staff by the Chicago Sun Times. Plus, we look at two Civil War era photographers, Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner as our Photographers of the Week.
Beauty is Embarrassing – The Wayne White Story
Wayne White
The Holstee Manifesto Poster
Chicago Tribune – Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff
Portraits of Signhild: Emil Nyström on Faded + Blurred
Page One: Inside the New York Times
Help Save Podcasting! | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Asus’ $4,000 4K monitor goes on sale this month
This Week’s Sponsors
Squarespace – Use the coupon code ‘AIMFOCUSSHOOT’ at checkout to save 10% on your order and get a free domain name.
Photographer of the Week
Mathew Brady – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Gardner (photographer) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Collection: Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs (Flickr)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Photography and the American Civil War
Books
Brady’s Civil War Journal: Photographing the War, 1861-65
On Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War
Photography and the American Civil War (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#57: “A Big Pool Of Hustle”
We discuss why it is that we bother to create anything. What are we looking for, praise or just a body of work? Bill takes the plunge into filmmaking (sort of) and we get some great questions from listeners. Magnum photographer, Josef Koudelka is our Photographer of the Week.
Show Notes
Gregory Crewdson Brief Encounters streaming on Netflix
Faded + Blurred Spotlight on Gregory Crewdson
Paul Westerberg on creativity
Bill’s short, Spring Fling
Art or voyeurism?
National Parks Foundation photo contest winners
This Week’s Sponsors
Shutterstock – Use code ‘PICTURES5‘ for 30% off.
Photographer of the Week
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka on Magnum
Article by Eric Kim
Books
Invasion 68: Prague
Koudelka
Chaos
#56: “Then It Becomes RoboCop”
Big show this week as Bill and Jeffery question what happens when it’s the process used to create the art that’s interesting, not the result. Also, where do we draw the line between photo manipulation and photo journalism? Plus, questions from the OTP Google+ community and listener-suggested Alec Soth is our Photographer of the Week.
Show Notes
“Ice Cream Cait” by Bill Wadman on Vimeo
Growing Concern that News Photos Are Being Excessively Manipulated – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Hansen’s World Press Winning Photo Not Fake… Just Unbelievable — BagNews
Photo Manipulation on the Fashion Pages – NYTimes.com
Google+ completely redesigned | The Verge
Yahoo revitalizes Flickr with huge images | The Verge
This Week’s Sponsors
Shutterstock – Use code ‘PICTURES5‘ for 30% off.
Squarespace – Use the coupon code ‘OFFMYLAWN’ at checkout to save 10% on your order and get a free domain name.
Photographer of the Week
Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio
National Portrait Gallery | Feature Photography
Books
Ping-Pong Conversations: Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot
Ryan McGinley: Whistle for the Wind
#55: “When Life Gives You Lemmings”
Bill battles severe back pain to discuss whether or not people know good from bad and how Steven Soderbergh’s observations on the state of cinema may also reflect the state of art. We also wonder how we should go about judging our own growth. Plus, voracious street shooter, Garry Winogrand, is our Photographer of the Week.
Show Notes
Steven Soderbergh’s State Of Cinema Talk – Deadline.com
A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh – LightBox
Petition | Adobe Systems Incorporated: Eliminate the mandatory “creative cloud” subscription model.
This Week’s Sponsors
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Photographer of the Week
Garry Winogrand – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi
Garry Winogrand, Who Retreated from Editing – NYTimes.com
Garry Winogrand: A look back at one of America’s most prolific photographers
Garry Winogrand / Biography & Images – Atget Photography.com / Books
Larissa Archer: ‘We Have Not Loved Life’: Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA
Books
Lee Friedlander The Nudes: A Second Look
#54: “Where’s Joseph Campbell When You Need Him?”
Bill and Jeffery discuss why content is no longer king and how you should focus on making (read: doing) something that’s important to you. Adobe kills individual software licenses. Are they doing the right thing with the new Creative Cloud? Plus, “Tulsa” photographer Larry Clark is our Photographer of the Week.
This Week’s Sponsors
Squarespace – Use the coupon code ‘OFFMYLAWN’ at checkout to save 10% on your order and get a free domain name.
Aeron Chair Cylinder Replacement
A legal victory for ‘appropriation art’ – The Verge
“One For Love, One For Money”
Ron Mart NEC PA271w monitor review
Adobe Creative Cloud
On Taking Pictures – The Good and the Bad of Adobe Creative Cloud
Photographer of the Week
Larry Clark – Wikipedia
LarryClark.com
Tulsa Book Video Walkthrough
Books
Tulsa
Nan Goldin
You and I
David Armstrong: 615 Jefferson Avenue
#53: Dig Down To Make More Room
Heroes aren’t just for children, especially when you meet them in person. Art for art’s sake, rather than investment. Plus, listener emails and Vancouver street shooter, Fred Herzog as Photographer of the Week.
Show Notes
How The Print Medium Matters – Dye Transfer
Dan Carrillo: Daclotype on Vimeo
This Week’s Sponsors
Shutterstock – Use code PICTURES4 for 30% off.
Photographer of the Week
Equinox Gallery Vancouver – Works by Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog’s Early Color Street Photographs
Books
Fred Herzog: Photographs (Douglas Coupland, Sarah Milroy)
Fred Herzog: Photographs (Claudia Gochmann)
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