We begin this week with a little tech talk around monitors. Is 4K the way to go, or is an ultrawide 1080 the better play? In the end it’s just pixels, but most photographers want as many as they can get. We also talk about elevating photography into an art form, exemplified by the career of John Szarkowski, an iconic photo curator who recently passed away. Plus, what makes a portrait? Robert Freeman is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #communication
  
• AT-LP120-USB Direct-drive Professional Turntable (USB & Analog) with AT95E Cartridge || Audio-Technica US
  
• Cheap Trick at Budokan - Wikipedia
  
• Annie Leibovitz: Portraits 2005–2016
  
• SGI 1600SW - Wikipedia
  
• SGI O2 - Wikipedia
  
• ultrawide, LCD / LED Monitors, Monitors, Computer Systems - Newegg.com
  
• John Szarkowski, Eminent Curator of Photography, Dies at 81 - The New York Times
  
• Atget: Postcards of a Lost Paris
  
• Brassai: The Monograph
  
• Superman's 'stache is causing woes for Justice League
  
• "White Nights" - 11 pirouettes - YouTube
  
• 11pirouettes-Slo-mo analysis of Baryshnikov in White Nights - YouTube
  
• Olive Cotton Award: Photographic portrait prize awarded to image without a face
  
• A Camera Made from 32,000 Drinking Straws - BOOOOOOOM! - CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
  
• Miroslav Tichý - Wikipedia
  
• Photographer Snaps Nearly A Hundred Photos a Day With Homemade Camera | Fstoppers
  
• Photography by the Letter — jeffery saddoris
  
• Robert Freeman (photographer) - Wikipedia
  
• REVOLVER: Robert Freeman's Cover Design - YouTube
  
• Robert Freeman - The Greatest Forgotten Photographer of the 60s
  

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