On Taking Pictures

This week, is boring art bad? Then again, who is to say whether any art is either good or bad? That said, do we miss part of the conversation if we don’t “get” a piece of art from the start? Or, should expecting to connect aesthetically to a particular piece or body of work be enough? Also, is there such thing as taking a perfect photograph and would you try 720,000 times to take it? Plus, we discuss a couple of your Crit Wall entries. Arthur Meyerson is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #morelight
  
• Coca Cola: The Gift Bottle [BTL Case] - YouTube
  
• Is It Bad If Art Is Boring? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
  
• The Köln Concert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• David Sylvian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Ognissanti Madonna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor: This is not photography | Lynda.com
  
• Photoshop CC 2015 Update Raises Liquify Rendering Problem | Fstoppers
  
• After 6 Years And 720,000 Attempts, Photographer Finally Takes Perfect Shot Of Kingfisher | Bored Panda
  
• Fojo | A Darkroom for Smartphones
  
• Tiny microscope lets you see the smallest-ever inkjet prints
  
• The best thing about the SpaceX rocket landing was the human reaction | The Verge
  
• Astropad for iPad | Graphics Tablet App
  
• Rainy day, someone bought me a bottle of Bourbon so I thought I'd have a go a...
  
• Volunteering at a refugee center I met this small time actress who only had b...
  
• Arthur Meyerson Photography
  
• Arthur Meyerson: The Color of Light (10 Photos) | PDN Photo of the Day
  
• Arthur Meyerson - Only in Houston 2007 Award Winner - YouTube
  

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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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This week, we discuss what to do when you feel like you’ve said all you want to (or can) say creatively, including some recent examples of creators who have decided to make dramatic changes to both what and how they create. Also, TIME has updated their contracts, which looks to have a dramatic affect on how freelance photographers are able to monetize their work. Plus, David Bowie has a new album and video that’s full of cultural references and surreal imagery...and isn’t that exactly what we’ve come to expect? Kevin Russ is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - G+ - Assignment: #junk
  
• Musical iconography: Anton Corbijn is bowing out of professional photography | The Economist
  
• Chester Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Leland Sklar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• One Summer: America, 1927: Bill Bryson: 9780767919418: Amazon.com: Books
  
• iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case - Charcoal Gray - Apple
  
• Amazon.com: mophie juice pack Air for iPhone 6/6s (2,750 mAh) - Black: Cell Phones & Accessories
  
• Digital images can't be trusted, says war photographer Don McCullin | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Magnum and the Dying Art of Darkroom Printing | the literate lens
  
• Is TIME Screwing Photographers? | PhotoShelter Blog
  
• Photo Business News & Forum: Times' Failed Attempt At Fairness and Equity
  
• Mining 'Color's Mother Lode' | PDN Photo of the Day
  
• Filmomat - Automatic color film processor - YouTube
  
• Peter Evans - Crit Wall shot
  
• Pigs and cable
  
• Kevin Russ
  
• The Western States by Kevin Russ – VSCO Artist Initiative
  
• Kevin Russ | VSCO Grid
  

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This week, we discuss a terrific NPR article on how people prefer to consume and contextualize information. It may offer some insights into how we as creators present our own work and how and to what degree a given audience may respond. Also, what do you do when what’s popular isn’t the way you see? Do you try to bend your own aesthetic to fit in, or stay in the familiar and let them come to you? Plus, we tease up a few items for next week, so be sure to check the show notes. John Chiara is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures G+ - Assignment: #comfort
  
• Berlin Mirimalism: Miri Berlin
  
• Do Visual Stories Make People Care? | NPR Visuals
  
• Taylor Wessing photographic Portrait Prize 2015 - Five Girls entry from 2008
  
• PPP_Martyn_2013.jpg (310×414)
  
• The seven ages of an artist | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Todd Reynolds
  
• Holga Factory Ceases Operation of Holga Cameras! | Freestyle Photographic Supplies
  
• Behind "Blackstar": An Interview with Johan Renck, the Director of David Bowie's Ten-Minute Short Film | NOISEY
  
• Digital images can't be trusted, says war photographer Don McCullin | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• John Chiara
  
• John Chiara - Photographic Process - YouTube
  

This week, we’re talking about leaps—not leaps of faith, but rather those unconscious leaps in process, technique or vision that serve as lines of demarcation for the work that came before and after them. Also, a listener writes in for advice about how to position the services he offers. Plus, a couple Crit Wall selections and a teaser for next week’s show around the stages of an artist’s life and career. Brigitte Lacombe is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment #twice
  
• Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois
  
• The Mindful Geek: Secular Meditation for Smart Skeptics
  
• Jackson Pollock | MoMA
  
• Jackson Pollock. Landscape with Steer. c. 1936–37 | MoMA
  
• Jackson Pollock. There Were Seven in Eight. c. 1945 | MoMA
  
• Reuters Issues a Worldwide Ban on RAW Photos
  
• Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer fired after admitting that he doctored Syrian war rebel picture by photoshopping camera out of original image | Daily Mail Online
  
• Dear Adobe, Your iPad Apps are a Mess. — Medium
  
• Do Visual Stories Make People Care? | NPR Visuals
  
• The seven ages of an artist | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Brigitte Lacombe
  
• Brigitte Lacombe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• My Most Important Photograph: Brigitte Lacombe, New York, 1988 | TIME
  
• Charlie Rose | charlierose.com
  
• » Taylor Wessing
  
• Brigitte Lacombe books on Amazon
  

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This week, we begin with a warm thank you to everyone who made it out to the DC meetup. It was really terrific to get to meet you all and we will definitely be doing more of these. The big discussion centers around a question from a listener who asked whether talking so much affects the doing—and both the quality and quantity of what we actually are able to ship. Also, giving yourself permission to fail. Icelandic shooter, Ragnar Axelsson is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #morningroutine
  
• John Oliver Paris Attacks - YouTube
  
• Jeremy Mann
  
• Artist Anish Kapoor finds "royal response" to Versailles anti-Semitism - Telegraph
  
• Kapoor Versailles - Palace of Versailles
  
• FilmmakerIQ.com
  
• Viewpoint: How creativity is helped by failure - BBC News
  
• Perfect and Unrehearsed - NYTimes.com
  
• No Cameras Necessary: 8 Camera-Less Photographers You Need To Know | The Creators Project
  
• Ragnar Axelsson
  
• All the 'Happy Birthday' song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules - LA Times
  
• Artists In Jackson
  

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This week, the dangers of letting yourself become defined by what you produce or how much (or how little) it is worth. Also, you can’t make iconic work, but you might be able to make it good. The problem is, is good good enough? Plus, Instagram as a platform for buying and selling art. Ben Thomas is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Tools
  
• OTP November Meetup in Washington DC - Google+
  
• FotoDC
  
• PHOTOGRAPHERS | Facing Change
  
• Social Media and the Art World: Buying and Selling Art on Instagram — Vogue
  
• Instagram Star Essena O'Neill Condemns Social Media
  
• Do Mass Layoffs at National Geographic Portend an Erosion of Scientific Integrity? | Nonprofit Quarterly
  
• Rupert Murdoch Lays Off National Geographic Staff
  
• Mary Ellen Mark's Nikon FM2 28mm Lens to Benefit The American Red Cross 018208016839 | eBay
  
• Leica M4 Garry Winogrand
  
• Hasselblad and DJI "form strategic partnership" | Photo Rumors
  
• DJI Osmo – Reimagine Movement | DJI
  
• Man interviews himself 38 years later and makes it into an amazing movie / Boing Boing
  
• Video Shows How One Softbox Can Have Ten Totally Different Uses | Resource Magazine
  
• Helmut by June (1995) - YouTube
  
• Chroma — Ben Thomas
  

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This week, do creatives always have a responsibility to practice their craft? Or, should we get to choose when and how we let inspiration move us into action? Also, do you work better alone, or when surrounded by others who may be on a similar creative journey? Plus, we discuss a couple photography-related iOS apps and a terrific Kickstarter photobook project that uses a unique printing method to beautifully complement the theme of the subject matter. Michael Borek is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Community - Assignment - #cool
  
• olloclip
  
• Photographer criticised by indigenous people and Survival International | Global development | The Guardian
  
• Astonish-Me! App for mobile devices | Philippe Halsman
  
• Avedon on the App Store
  
• Like a Pearl in my Hand by Carina Hesper — Kickstarter
  
• Torpedo Factory Art Center
  
• Linda Linda by The Blue Hearts-japanese+english lyrics - YouTube
  
• Director Sam Mendes on Going Back to 35mm for 'Spectre'
  
• HOME | Michael Borek
  
• Picture 156 « Album 1 « Gallery 8 « PORTFOLIO | Michael Borek
  

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This week, Bill is on his honeymoon in Europe, so we’re doing another Q&A show that we actually recorded last week before he left. Ironically, we did the show on Back to the Future Day, which means that while we were recording it for the future, you’re really listening to it in the past. Science!

Links for this episode:

• The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Oregon City — Shadow Quality
  
• California Photographer
  
• PeterLippmann
  
• Robert Rauschenberg. Rebus. 1955 | MoMA
  
• ColorMunki Display on Amazon
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #NewPlace
  

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This week, we start with a terrific discussion around self-promotion. How do you decide how to best represent yourself and to whom? Is there a difference between the “personal” you and your public brand? Should there be? Also, some final thoughts on the discussions around Magic Lessons. In two weeks, we’re talking about truth and ethics in photojournalism, so check the show notes for the link. Tabitha Soren is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures on Google+ - Assignment: #twisted
  
• Ep. #12: Brene Brown on "Big Strong Magic" by Magic Lessons
  
• How much color gamut do displays really need? Part 3: Existing color gamut standards | dot color
  
• Staging, Manipulation and Truth in Photography - The New York Times
  
• Lightroom 6.2 Import Update
  
• Sony's New RX1R II Delivers 42-Megapixel Full Frame Sensor in Compact Body
  
• Bombay Beach // Trailer on Vimeo
  
• TABITHA SOREN
  

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