On Taking Pictures

This week, we talk about the continuing evolution of photography from the perspective of seeing how genres are blending into one another and how so much of contemporary photography can fall under “lifestyle.” Also, two sides of a Photoshop discussion around retouching — one from the point of view of a model and the other from an icon of photojournalism. Plus, how do you feel about narrative in photography? Do you want to be told what a photo or body of work means, or do you prefer assigning your own narrative and/or backstory to the work? Bruce Davidson is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #streetCorner
  
• Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art
  
• Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty | MoMA
  
• Elsa Mora. The cuban artist's official website. Currently based in New York.
  
• Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portrait by Romke Hoogwaerts — Kickstarter
  
• Foodie - A camera app customized for food photos on the App Store
  
• Our Story — Twinsters
  
• STACY KRANITZ
  
• Botched Steve McCurry Print Leads to Photoshop Scandal
  
• Zendaya and 8 Other Celebs Who Protested Photoshop and Won | TIME
  
• The Digital Afterlife of Lost Family Photos - The New York Times
  
• Mojocon 2016: Mavis camera app brings pro level features like waveform and vectorscope to iPhone
  
• Bruce Davidson (photographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Bruce Davidson | Matt Dillon | The New York Public Library
  
• Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio
  

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This week, after a quick teaser of next week’s show, we’re taking your questions and attempting to answer them. Topics range from gear to legacy to what makes a great photographer. We love doing these shows and if you didn’t get a question in this time, keep an eye out for the next one. Maurice Tabard is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Stilllife
  
• Leica's M-D is a digital camera for manual purists
  
• Bugge Body Parts — Bill Wadman
  
• Million Dollar Photographer
  
• Pricing Guides | American Society of Media Photographers
  
• Cradoc fotoSoftware
  
• Control Freak Passive Volume Control | Emotiva
  
• Tabard, Maurice : Photography, History | The Red List
  
• Maurice Tabard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Maurice Tabard | MoMA
  
• "Faking It" on Amazon
  

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This week, the unexpected passing of Prince has us starting the show discussing art from the perspective of both ownership and influence. We talk about priorities (artistic and otherwise) and to what degree our presence in the world allows us to experience the world. Plus, we discuss some of the differences between opinion and critique and how who you ask can be just as important as what. Alex Prager is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #transition
  
• Susan Rogers Reflects on Her Work with Prince | Berklee College of Music
  
• Purple Rain's sound engineer remembers Prince: 'A very rare bird' - Home | As It Happens | CBC Radio
  
• The Moment with Brian Koppelman - Gabrielle Hamilton: 3/29/16 | Listen via Stitcher Radio On Demand
  
• Aperture Anthology: The Minor White Years
  
• Eric Clapton Opens Up About 'The Very Real Way' Prince Brought Him Out Of Depression
  
• Sarah Oliphant - Conversations with Artists — Jonsar Studios
  
• EO Hoppé’s portraits - in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• 2The.Impressionists.Painting.and.Revolution.2of4.The.Great.Outdoors.PDTV.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org - Video Dailymotion
  
• Peter Capaldi: 'A lot of surrealist art is about sex' - video | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Unlock Art - Search results | Tate
  
• Alex Prager – Photography & Films
  
• Alex Prager: Crowd Control | NOWNESS
  
• MoMA | New Photography 2010 | Alex Prager
  
• Sign 'O' The Times [Outtake] - YouTube
  

This week, Happy Anniversary to us! We talk a bit about four years of On Taking Pictures, which leads to a discussion on the value of output. There’s the idea of getting better with practice, which we’ve talked about several times, but also the value of the body of work as an object, independent of anything else. We also talk about meanings we associate to objects and share a wonderful email from a listener called “The Mythology of Things” in which he works through some reasons that objects become more to us than their component parts. Also, is the Photo Renaissance over or are we in a New Golden Age of photography? Former Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• How Ridiculous - YouTube
  
• Cardboard Junkie: Virtual 1982 Topps Sticker Album - Front cover and page 1
  
• Titanic sinks in REAL TIME - 2 HOURS 40 MINUTES - YouTube
  
• George Hurrell photos and prints
  
• Crit Wall : Sahidus Maximus
  
• Crit Wall : Lance Harshbarger
  
• A. Aubrey Bodine - Baltimore Pictorialist
  
• The photos of A. Aubrey Bodine - Baltimore Sun
  
• Bodine’s Industry: ‘The Dignity of Work’ by A. Aubrey Bodine
  
• A. Aubrey Bodine: Baltimore Sun pictorialist
  
• Bodine - Man Blowing Glass
  
• Aubrey Bodine books on Amazon
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #cycles
  

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This week, we start out talking about how as our creative goals change, our gear needs often change along with them and how the concept of “good enough” is nothing if not fluid. Also, The Next Rembrandt has us wondering how connected to your work do you have to be for it still to be yours? Can machines create art? Or is the human experience a necessary and fundamental component to make art? John Minihan is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment - #travelling
  
• The all new Hasselblad H6D presented by Karl Taylor - YouTube
  
• The Century of the Self - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Fashion of Art History Reimagined Through Instagram | AnOther
  
• Virtual Reality Is for Artists
  
• Dave Lefner | Linocuts and Paintings by Artist Dave Lefner at Skidmore Contemporary Art | Los Angeles
  
• What people look like after 1, 2, and 3 glasses of wine
  
• The Next Rembrandt
  
• Move Over, Rat Pack and Brat Pack: Here Comes the Snap Pack - NYTimes.com
  
• John Minihan (photographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• John Minihan's best photograph: Samuel Beckett | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• ‘You don’t just photograph a man like Samuel Beckett. You offer him something’
  
• John Minihan: Samuel Beckett
  

This week, are you a multitasker? Or is multitasking merely a buzzword to make us feel like we’re actually getting things done? A voicemail from a listener has us discussing our approaches to managing multiple projects. Also, it’s not always about the picture — story is still important, especially when you’re pitching ideas to magazines and editorial outlets. Plus, 30 years after Chernobyl, our fascination with abandoned places and a terrific Crit Wall entry from the G+ Group. Tim Walker is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #discarded
  
• Lightzone
  
• REAPER - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Puget Custom Computers: PC Hardware Articles
  
• ESPN’s Tim Rasmussen on the Story Pitches that Land Assignments
  
• Still Cleaning Up: 30 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster - The Atlantic
  
• Chernobyl Uncensored - Documentary - YouTube
  
• An alternative view of New York | Forgotten New York
  
• A Too-Perfect Picture - The New York Times
  
• Abandoned America | Matthew Christopher's Autopsy of the American Dream
  
• Why Mapplethorpe Still Matters - The New York Times
  
• Review: ‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ on HBO Gives Context to Controversy - The New York Times
  
• Sheri Lynn Behr’s Be Seeing You is a series about surveillance.
  
• Palette Gear: Hands-on Control of your Favourite Software
  
• MUSIC ‹ |||||||||| WWW.GUSOV.COM ||||||||||
  
• Tim Walker Photography
  
• Fashion Story: Lady Grey by Tim Walker - YouTube
  
• Tim Walker interview: In Fashion - YouTube
  
• Tim Walker - Pictures by teNeues.de
  
• Tim Walker "Pictures" on Amazon
  
• Young men in Arles compete to see who can pull the ring off a bull's horns. The…
  

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This week, Instagram’s change from a time-based feed to an algorithmic one has us discussing the value of platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, etc. as viable means of sharing work, especially when it’s got a commercial component to it. We also talk about flow states – those periods of creativity when time seems to stop — both from the standpoints of controlling when they happen and what to do when they don’t. Plus, how many memories do you need? We talk about the often overwhelming size of photo collections and some of the ways to manage them. We tackle a couple Crit Wall entries from listeners and Peter Goin is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #CompositeSmackdown
  
• The Old Reader: behind the scenes - Instagram Unlevels the Playing Field
  
• An Exhibition Explores How Photos Have Been Used To Prove Crime And Violence
  
• Unedited! Grisly photos from the LAPD photo archives on display
  
• Google Nik Collection
  
• Recent shot using a newly acquired Mamiya 7. Love it so far, but its been an…
  
• This is a photo I took of a friend and his band in the studio for promo…
  
• Peter Goin Photography
  
• Peter Goin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Nuclear Landscapes -- Nevada Test Site by Peter Goin | ONE
  
• Mamiya 7
  

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This week, we discuss what happens when you can no longer do what you love. What do you do if you can’t shake feeling that your best work is behind you? Malcolm McLaren’s son Joe Corré wants to burn his £5m collection of punk memorabilia. Here’s a question for next week: Do collectors of art or cultural ephemera have a responsibility to keep it or is personal meaning (or the lack thereof) more important? Chime in at [email protected]. Barbara Crane is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• OTP G+ Group - Assignment: wholeRoll
  
• Vine Stars to Twitter: Time to Pay Up | Vanity Fair
  
• Malcolm McLaren's son to burn £5m of punk memorabilia | Music | The Guardian
  
• B: Ode to the Lowly Sprocket Hole
  
• Classic New York Streetscapes, Then and Now - WSJ
  
• Bill Brandt’s camera | Greg Neville's photography blog
  
• The Harvard Library That Protects The World's Rarest Colors | Co.Design | business + design
  
• Barbara Crane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Barbara Crane on Pinterest
  
• Interview with Artist Barbara Crane on Vimeo
  
• Museum of Contemporary Photography
  
• Salute to Barbara Crane, photographer
  
• “Crane Takes Flight” by Luke Strosnider | Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism
  
• Joe Schedlo
  

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This week, a follow up from a listener about our “what makes a professional?” discussion from last week, specifically the idea of professionalism in behavior vs gear/appearance, etc. We also talk a little about regional aesthetics in art and photography and wonder how much of the technical limitations or defects that seem important to people making the work matter to larger audiences. Plus, a few things to think about ahead of next week's show. Alen MacWeeney is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Uphill
  
• IK Multimedia | iRig 2 - Guitar interface adapter for iPad, iPhone iPod touch, Android and Mac.
  
• Photos show desolate, abandoned Six Flags New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina - San Antonio Express-News
  
• Abandoned Wizard Of Oz Amusement Park Reopens Once A Year For 'Autumn At Oz' (PHOTOS)
  
• 220/221 Volts Whatever it takes? - YouTube
  
• The Gray Market
  
• Elton John's Little Hands
  
• Flipping and the Rise of Zombie Formalism | Art for Sale | Artspace
  
• Minor White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Alen MacWeeney - Home
  
• Documenting The Irish Travellers: A Nomadic Culture of Yore : The Picture Show : NPR
  
• Alen MacWeeney: Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More on Amazon
  
• Episode 7: Jeffery Saddoris — Keep the Channel Open
  
• Song Exploder
  

This week, what does it mean to be a professional? Is it merely making a living from one’s endeavor or is there something else? Is photography something you need to do to achieve some greater sense of fulfillment, or is it simply a vocation? And is one more valid than the other? Also, we talk a bit about a new Van Gogh film that uses an oil painting for every frame. Ryszard Horowitz is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #inthestyleof
  
• MITM Clips: Dissecting Toto's "Rosanna" - 100.3 The Sound
  
• Testing Flexible-tilt screen of Pentax Fullframe K-1 - YouTube
  
• Ansel Adams Datsun (Nissan) commercial - YouTube
  
• Nick Drake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• A Feature Animated Oil Painting movie called LOVING VINCENT has an incredible trailer!!!
  
• Brothers Hildebrandt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie - YouTube
  
• THE BOXTROLLS - Time Lapse End Credits - YouTube
  
• Uncontainable: Drew Bezanson’s quest for fear
  
• S. JJ Abrams on Amazon
  
• ChromaLife100+
  
• Ryszard Horowitz - Photocomposer
  
• Ryszard Horowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Ryszard Horowitz - Biography | Artist | Culture.pl
  
• The Photographer of Dreams - Film About Ryszard Horowitz - YouTube