#38: “Tug of War with the Muse”
Technical and creative limitations as inspiration, schtick vs style, and how the artistic process is what gives art it’s humanity . Innovative fashion photographer Paolo Roversi is Photographer of the Week.
#37: “Jump in the River”
Photographers not known for their pictures, popularity contests, and trying to be a nice guy in a divisive world. Listener emails about exploitation, education, and ‘Meditation’ are answered. Classic agressive street photographer and filmmaker William Klein is Photographer of the Week.
#36: “The Schrodinger Moment”
An epic show this week wherein Bill and Jeffery tear into legacy, life, death, and being remembered. It’s deep and heavy and well worth the time. B&W conversion, photography movies, and photo education also make an appearance. Portraitist Platon is our Photographer of the Week.
#35: “Justification After the Fact”
It’s the last episode of 2012 so we conquer comment trolls, Fuji’s lack of auto-focus, and whether historical artistic perspective matters at all anyway. Artistic portrait man Philip-Lorca diCorcia is our Photographer of the Week.
#34: “Learning Everything All the Time”
The plateaus of getting better, why change is scary, why Jeffery can’t decide what camera to buy and it’s not because there are no good cameras available. Modern surrealist photographer Man Ray is our Photographer of the Week.
#33: “Troubleshooting in Real Time”
An update and discussion about how Bill’s December portrait project is going, does pre-visualization suck creativity, and where is the line between photography and photo-illustration anyway? Darkroom artist Jerry Uelsmann is our Photographer of the Week.
#32: “Screw Those People”
Should you retire of you’re no longer doing good work? What skateboarding has in common with photography and why Bill will never get asked to shoot the Pirelli calendar. Portraitist William Coupon is our Photographer of the Week.
#31: Too Much information
Coercion vs connection in portrait photography , making it through the fear of failure or even fear of success, and what? Bill is shooing video now? The world must be ending, so we might as well start at the beginning with 19th century French portrait photographer Nadar as PotW.
#30: Entrances Confused with Dead Ends
Our thoughts on the HBO series ‘Witness’, classic Hollywood portraits, tips for making your composites look more real, and a deep delve into the mind of photographer of the week Joel Meyerowitz.
#29: “Richard Scarry Book on Acid”
How do you know when you’ve got it right? Are trends in art supposed to be chased or ridden, and is there is a location which really is the ‘place to be’ at any particular time? Parisian street photographer Brassai is this week’s photographer.
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