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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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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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
http://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
PHOTOGRAPHER of the WEEK: Vivian Maier
http://fadedandblurred.com/spotlight/vivian-maier/
http://www.vivianmaier.com
http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com
http://fadedandblurred.com/spotlight/vivian-maier/
http://www.vivianmaier.com
http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com
Related Books on Amazon
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
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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/
PHOTOGRAPHER of the WEEK: Elliott Erwitt
http://www.elliotterwitt.com/lang/en/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Erwitt
http://fadedandblurred.com/spotlight/elliott-erwitt/
Google Image Search for Edward Steichen
http://www.elliotterwitt.com/lang/en/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Erwitt
http://fadedandblurred.com/spotlight/elliott-erwitt/
Google Image Search for Edward Steichen
Related Books on Amazon
Personal Best
Elliott Erwitt’s New York (English, German, French, Spanish and Italian Edition)
Elliot Erwitt Snaps
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