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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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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
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