This week, we wrestle with whether or not you can be an artist, without locking your own self worth/self image to your art. What does it mean to live a creative life anyway? We weigh in on the firing of the photo staff by the Chicago Sun Times. Plus, we look at two Civil War era photographers, Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner as our Photographers of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Beauty is Embarrassing - The Wayne White Story
  
• Wayne White (artist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Holstee Manifesto Poster - "This is your life" | HOLSTEE
  
• Chicago Tribune - Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff
  
• Portraits of Signhild: Emil Nyström » Faded + Blurred
  
• Page One: Inside the New York Times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Help Save Podcasting! | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
• Asus' $4,000 4K monitor goes on sale this month, pushes Retina MacBook to its breaking point | The Verge
  
• Mathew Brady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Alexander Gardner (photographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Collection: Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs
  
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Photography and the American Civil War
  
• Amazon - Photography and the American Civil War (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
  
• Amazon - Mathew B. Brady: America's First Great Photographer
  
• Amazon - Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation
  

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