This week, we’re discussing a letter from a listener who offers observations on the intellectualizing of modern art and how we tend to find it difficult to relate when we look at it emotionally. Also, another letter from a listener sparks a discussion around what to do when a shoot (or a project) doesn’t turn out the way you wanted it to and how we gauge success or failure. Next week, we’re looking at an NPR article that asks whether or not it’s bad if art is boring. Check the show notes. Roy DeCarava is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #fandom
  
• The gif of happiness
  
• Paul Nicklen
  
• A Graphic Glimpse Inside the Studio of Roy Lichtenstein
  
• Crazy Walls
  
• Lichtenstein Cows
  
• Does The Hateful Eight's 70mm roadshow really impact the future of film? | The Verge
  
• What one bad screening of The Hateful Eight means for the future of film
  
• DE VERE 504DS Digital Enlarger
  
• Is It Bad If Art Is Boring? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
  
• Stacy Kranitz Is TIME’s Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year 2015 | TIME
  
• Roy DeCarava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Tribute
  
• Masters of Photography: Roy DeCarava
  
• Roy Decarava - YouTube
  
• Roy DeCarava books on Amazon
  

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