This week, how do you gauge whether or not the work you do is authentic? What do you do when good isn’t good enough or how much to you chalk up to timing? Also, should you be held accountable for the consistency of the art you create? Plus, brilliant fashion and fine art photographer, Lillian Bassman is our Photographer of the Week.

Show Notes
How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection
WADMAN EDITIONS
Interview with Tom Hoops
Writing Wednesdays: Suing Neil Young
BBC – Culture – The quiet revolutionary design classic
Amazon.com: Fine Art: Collectibles & Fine Art
Room 237 Movie | Many Ways In, No Way Out

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Photographer of the Week
Lillian Bassman – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lillian Bassman, Fashion and Fine-Art Photographer, Dies at 94 – NYTimes.com

Books We Recommend
Lillian Bassman: Women
Lillian Bassman: Lingerie
Lillian Bassman & Paul Himmel

A lot of people have been asking about the song we use as the main theme for On Taking Pictures. It’s actually a song I wrote and performed with Andrea Mann from 2006 called ‘Eyes This Way’.

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This week, we talk reinvention. Sometimes you choose, while other times, the choice is made for you. Do you go willingly, or kicking and screaming? Also, how do you take your work (or yourself) to the next level? Plus, you may not know the name, but you definitely know the photos; Philippe Halsman is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Impostor syndrome – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• MoMA | Walker Evans American Photographs
• Why you shouldn’t care that a Picasso was destroyed – Quartz
• Light Blaster
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Long-Awaited Cosmos Sequel Tells ‘Greatest Story Ever Told’ | Underwire | Wired.com
• Philippe Halsman – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Philippe Halsman | Photographer
• Amazon: Philippe Halsman “Portraits”
• Amazon: Philippe Halsman “A Retrospective”
• Amazon: Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book

Show Notes

We lighten things up this week and talk about gear, specifically cameras and why what’s right for you may not be right for someone else…and that’s okay. Also, sometimes your photos really don’t matter… just enjoy the moment. Plus, Ellen von Unwerth brings the sexy as our Photographer of the Week.

Dan Winters- Photographs of the U.S. Space Program – LightBox
The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.) – NYTimes.com
John Nack on Adobe : No words
The Trip
BBC – Blogs – TV blog – Alive: Rankin Faces Death

Photographer of the Week
Ellen von Unwerth – Wikipedia
Ellen von Unwerth – Tumblr
Ellen von Unwerth’s Videos on Vimeo
Faded + Blurred Spotlight on Ellen Von Unwerth

Books We Recommend
Ellen von Unwerth: Fraulein
Plumes & Dentelles (Feathers and Lace): Autours des Parures de Chantal Thomass
Ellen Von Unwerth’sRevenge [Hardcover]2011

Last week, we talked about valuing your work. This week, we take on the idea of defining artistic goals and how a journey without a destination can have a dramatic impact on the work you create. Also, how do you decide just how much creative capital to invest? Plus, brilliant Chinese street photographer, Ho Fan is our Photographer of the Week.

Show Notes

John Nack on Adobe : No words
Disruptions: Social Media Images Form a New Language Online – NYTimes.com
Hasselblad Digital Back – Sample File Images
Tugg – In No Great Hurry in Minneapolis, MN on Monday, July 29, 7:30pm
Helmut Newton At The Annenberg » Faded + Blurred

Photographer of the Week
Fan Ho – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FAN HO, Hong Kong Master Street Photographer #1 | Leica Liker
HO Fan | Works : Blue Lotus Gallery

Books
Fan Ho: Hong Kong Yesterday

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)

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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

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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

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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

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

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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