#28: “Ability to Recognize…Maybe”

How do we know when art ‘works’ or doesn’t? Is it intuition or knowledge? Bill and Jeffery also tackle some listener mail about b/w conversion, hype in the art world, and a rebuttal of a listener who thinks Bill is a little too cranky. Master portraitist Irving Penn is this week’s photographer.

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#27: “A Body of Work Only in Hindsight”

A serious episode this week as Jeffery and Bill discuss whether a body of work is retrospective in origin or whether it’s built masterpiece by masterpiece. Also David Hockney’s article on perspective, scanning slides with your dslr, and asking why photography is ever a crime. The wonderful Alfred Sieglitz is this week’s photographer.

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#26: “Brain Calibration Issue”

Extra bonus episode so that Jeffery and Bill could get caught up on and answer all the listen feedback they’ve been getting lately. We talk about the worth of process, light source color, framing, photo books, and the new Faking It exhibit at the Met in NYC. Get on board!

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#25: “The Weather Is What You’re Photographing”

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This week Bill tells all about his trip to Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks while Jeffery gives him a hard time about it. Do you need to leave where you are to see where you’ve been? And of course it’s fitting that Ansel Adams is our photographer of the week.

Show Notes
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A Day in the Life of a Fire Lookout by Gary Yost
Facebook taking down pages for “copyright violation”
Russian Ark (Incredible film, shot in the Hermitage Museum IN ONE TAKE)

[PHOTOGRAPHER of the WEEK] Ansel Adams
http://www.anseladams.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
Ansel Adams Google Images Search

Related Books on Amazon
Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs
Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America’s Wild Places

#24: “Negative Space of Technique”

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This week is all about who deserves to get paid, whether craft has inherent value, and why Bill would like to take more than one photograph with an iPhone even with a purple fringed lens flare. Amateur savant Vivian Meier is our photographer of the week.

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Show Notes

CreativeLive gets US$ 7.5M in funding:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/09/creativelive/

Memento – one shot app, sent in by Jean-Michel
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/27/one-memento-a-camera-app-that-can-only-shoot-a-single-photograph-ever/

iPhone 5 Purple Flare: Apple says you’re aiming it wrong:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/08/tech/mobile/iphone-5-purple-haze/

Sally Mann In The Age of Instagram:
http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2012/10/wall-sally-manns-self-portraits-new-york
http://fadedandblurred.com/spotlight/sally-mann/

Abe Morrell exhibition
http://www.bonnibenrubi.com/exhibitions.html

Bill’s portraits of Rob
https://www.ontakingpictures.com/2012/09/two-very-different-portraits-of-robert/

Elia Kahvedjian
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/the-finest-photographs-of-early-20th-century-palestine-shuttered-in-controversy-1.411086
http://www.eliaphoto.com/Gallery.html

Related Books on Amazon
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

#23: “Everyone’s Job to be Everything”

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Bill and Jeffery respond to a bit more feedback about workshops & websites, Jeffery’s thinking about taking up senior portraits, Bill can’t stand photographers who don’t know what they’re talking about. Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt is our photographer of the week.

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Show Notes

Tokyo Club Kids in Bathtubs
http://www.featureshoot.com/2012/09/tokyo-club-kids-photographed-in-their-bathtubs/

Beautiful fashion shots from Florian Sommet
http://fashionography.net/katharina-rembi-by-florian-sommet/

Image Properties (or how most people talk out their ass)
http://ontakingpictures.com/2009/12/image_properties_or_how_most_p/

Related Books on Amazon
Personal Best
Elliott Erwitt’s New York (English, German, French, Spanish and Italian Edition)
Elliot Erwitt Snaps

#22: “Ann Curry is a Better Photographer than You”

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Bill and Jeffery respond to feedback about workshops & websites, famous people buying Leicas, and why taking less pictures is better. Then Bill recounts being ignored by Philip Glass and his methodology behind a group shot of 10 people. Of course Edward Steichen, our photographer of the week, could have done a better job I’m sure.

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Show Notes

Lost Memories (Ferracci created the film as an entry to a competition in Paris that asked filmmakers to imagine what the future will be like. It was shot using a Canon 5D Mark II. Although writing, filming, and editing the footage took only about a day, adding in all the visual effects took Ferracci half a year to complete.):
http://www.doobybrain.com/2012/09/18/lost-memories-by-francois-ferracci/

Ann Curry – Photographer (Lieca M9) Calling them ‘photographs’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35927229#35927229

Celebs love the Leica:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/fashion/leica-cameras-favored-by-celebrities.html

John Mayer’s post about his M4
http://jhnmyr.tumblr.com/post/25112225337/vintage-new-old-stock-leica-m4-and-35mm-summicron 

Instagram on Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/instagram-photography_n_1893230.html?utm_hp_ref=arts

Cheap IR remote for Canon on Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA07Y0B89552 

Related Books on Amazon
Steichen’s Legacy
Edward Steichen: In High Fashion – The Conde Nast Years, 1923-1937
Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography

#21: “Vanity Fairy”

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Bill is nervous for the first time in a while and it’s not about the latest crop of cameras coming out at Photokina. Also, your portfolio site might just suck, but Jeffery’s diatribe on the subject might just help. All this plus the century old amazing work of Karl Blossfeldt on this week’s On Taking Pictures.

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Show Notes

Bill’s thoughts on the Canon 6D
http://ontakingpictures.com/2012/09/canon-6d-impressions/

Charles Cushman on Faded and Blurred
http://fadedandblurred.com/blog/the-day-in-its-color-charles-w-cushman/

‘Side by Side’ on Amazon Streaming
Side by Side

Bill’s portrait of Jhumpa Lahiri
http://ontakingpictures.com/2008/05/progress/ 

Related Books on Amazon
Karl Blossfeldt: The Complete Published Work (Taschen 25th Anniversary) (English, German and French Edition)
Karl Blossfeldt (TASCHEN Icons Series)

#20: “Moment Much Bigger than that Photograph”

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Different aspect ratios, photo projects based on teenage killers, and a long and somewhat heavy discussion about why we bother taking pictures at all and what they mean to us.

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Show Notes
Disfarmer portraits
http://www.disfarmer.com/

Marilyn Monroe Copyright Decision
http://pdnpulse.com/2012/09/owners-of-marilyn-monroe-photos-win-big-legal-victory-over-actors-heirs.html

Redheaded Peckerwood
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/09/07/opinion/sunday/20120909_Exposures_Killer.html?ref=sunday#1

Related Books on Amazon
Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour: A Photographer’s Life and His World
Herb Ritts: Work
Herb Ritts: L.A. Style

#19: “Bare with a Snoot”

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When 5 lights are just right, why people bother to shoot with a 4×5, as well as who Berenice Abbott was and why her work still rocks.

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Show Notes

Photographer gets dropped from gallery for sourcing from stock
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/03/gallery-drops-photo-artist-after-works-found-to-be-sourced-from-stock/

Paul Buff vs Profoto
http://kevsteele.com/blog/profoto-einstein-lighting/

Bill’s new portrait with lighting explanation
http://ontakingpictures.com/2012/09/new-quasi-self-portrait/ 

Audrey Tatou for Glass Magazine
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Glass-Magazine-Faith-Audrey-Tautou/4210225

Large Format Photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_format_(photography)

Everett and Ralph on Provia
http://ontakingpictures.com/2012/08/everett-and-ralph-on-provia/

Harlan Ellison Rant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Related Books on Amazon
Berenice Abbott: Changing New York
Documenting Science
Berenice Abbott, Photographer: An Independent Vision
Berenice Abbott (Editions Hazan)