On Taking Pictures

This week, we continue our platform discussion from last week and expand on it into areas of reach and archiving. Do you look at your website as long term storage of ideas or a snapshot of where you are in the moment? Also, an interesting story around whether art is personal property or a ward of the state. The Elizabeth Gilbert discussion has been moved until next week. Check the link in the show notes so you can follow along. Tatiana Gulenkina is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #absence
  
• David Carson: Design and discovery | TED Talk | TED.com
  
• Ep. #12: Brene Brown on "Big Strong Magic" by Magic Lessons
  
• How to Roll Back to Lightroom 6.1.1 or CC 2015.1 | Laura Shoe's Lightroom Training, Tutorials and Tips
  
• Woman Spotted Without Phone Camera Out, Is Now an Internet Sensation
  
• Private Property or Patrimony? The Fight Over a Picasso - The New York Times
  
• Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works' : NPR
  
• Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides Trailer - YouTube
  
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• Tatiana Gulenkina
  
• Tatiana Gulenkina – Things Merging and Falling Apart | British Journal of Photography
  

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This week, we’re talking about influences, using the terrific Keith Richards Netflix documentary Under the Influence as a starting point. How do we want to be influenced and to what extent should we allow our work (or art) to change because of it? Too little and the influence may be wasted. Too much and the work may cease to be our own — and ultimately less authentic. We also talk about art as a vehicle for moving us towards attentiveness, as explained wonderfully by Milton Glaser. Plus, we’ve got some links that we will be discussing next week about inspiration and what we could or should expect from it. Conceptual photographer Daisuke Yokota is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Community - Assignment - #stairs
  
• Kravitz Design
  
• Details // LEICA M-P CORRESPONDENT // Leica M // Photography - Leica Camera AG
  
• Adobe Unveils New Mobile Apps, Adobe Portfolio and Updates to Desktop Apps at Adobe MAX - Mac Rumors
  
• iMazing | iPhone, iPad & iPod Manager for PC & Mac. Transfer, Copy, Backup Music, Files, Apps & Messages. (was DiskAid)
  
• Pixar Artists Test Drive The Apple Pencil — What Do They Think About It?
  
• The Guggenheim Puts Online 1600 Great Works of Modern Art from 575 Artists | Open Culture
  
• Over 8,400 NASA Apollo moon mission photos just landed online, in high-resolution / Boing Boing
  
• Trombone Shorty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Keith Richards: Under the Influence - Trailer - A Netflix Documentary [HD] - YouTube
  
• 10 Things We Learned From 'Keith Richards: Under the Influence' | Rolling Stone
  
• Learning from Keith Richards' fingers
  
• "What is Art, and What is Not?" - YouTube
  
• Ep. #12: Brene Brown on "Big Strong Magic" by Magic Lessons | Free Listening on SoundCloud
  
• Photographer takes snaps of 'real people' with battered and bruised faces | Daily Mail Online
  
• Amazon.com : Kyocera Yashica T4 Super Weatherproof Camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar T* 35mm F3.5 Lens and Waistlever Super Scope Viewfinder : Point And Shoot Digital Cameras : Camera & Photo
  
• Yashica T4 - Camerapedia
  
• Konica Hexar - Camerapedia
  
• HEART - STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN in HD - The Kennedy Center Honors LED ZEPPELIN, 2012. - YouTube
  
• Stairway to Heaven Stanley Jordan - YouTube
  
• daisuke yokota website
  
• Daisuke Yokota | Conscientious Photography Magazine
  
• Shoot, Print, Repeat: An Interview With Daisuke Yokota | American Photo
  

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This week, we talk a little about the iPhone 6s and the iPhone’s impact on photography for both amateurs and professionals. Also, we discuss the Bruce Gilden photos that have been making the rounds lately from his recently released book, Face. Should intent be a factor in viewing or appreciating photography, or is it all about the end product? Also, a few teasers for next week, when we'll be discussing influence and the question of whether or not something is art, simply because it moves you to attentiveness. Linden Gledhill is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #stranger
  
• Jack Hollingsworth: Small Camera Big Results - YouTube
  
• TV station shelves expensive gear to report the news with iPhones | Cult of Mac
  
• A latter-day freak show? Bruce Gilden's extreme portraits are relentlessly cruel | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Bryan Adams: Wounded: Amazon.co.uk: Bryan Adams: 9783869306773: Books
  
• Bruce Gilden
  
• Watch 'The Warriors' Recreate Their Last Subway Ride Home | Rolling Stone
  
• Mad Max: Fury Road – The Silent Cut trailer | Live for Films
  
• A one-of-a-kind marketplace from Steven Soderbergh. - Extension 765
  
• Keith Richards: Under the Influence - Trailer - A Netflix Documentary [HD] - YouTube
  
• IT MIGHT GET LOUD | Sony Pictures Classics
  
• 'Yes I'm obsessive': The 50,000-hour paintings of Ben Johnson - BBC News
  
• Joey L. - NYC-based Photographer and Director
  
• Linden Gledhill Photography
  
• Science Photographer Reveals Beauty of the Microscopic World
  

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This week, we’re back in our respective cities and begin with a bit of follow up on the discussion around tools and process started in last week’s “walk and talk” episode. We also ask ourselves and each other “what’s my creative hurdle or bottleneck?” Here’s a question for you listeners: How directly do the tools you use affect your final product? Can you ONLY get the results with a DSLR and “big lights”? Or would mirrorless and natural light be just as good? Hiroshi Sugimoto is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #circular
  
• Special When Lit - A Pinball Documentary - on DVD, Blu-ray & iTunes Download
  
• Stunning Photo Series Highlights The Beauty Of Black Dogs That Are Often Overlooked In Adoption
  
• Black Dogs Project
  
• Chasing Dragons [Review]
  
• Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye
  
• Red Dot Camera wants to bring the Leica experience to your iPhone: Connect
  
• Circular Fisheye Photography - Luminous Landscape
  
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• Here's a collection of photos I made while riding my bike around the city in…
  
• Agne Gintalaite photographs Lithuania’s Soviet-era garage doors in Beauty Remains.
  
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• Hiroshi Sugimoto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Hiroshi Sugimoto
  
• On Instagram and Other Social Media, Redefining ‘User Engagement’ - The New York Times
  

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This week, we’re going West Wing and doing a walk and talk LIVE from the National Mall in Washington DC. We’re talking about the connection between tools and process and their effect on the work we produce and we wonder whether it’s better to just keep using the tools that are familiar, rather than always chasing the latest pieces of kit. Since we are on the Mall, home to the many of the Smithsonian museums, our Photographer of the Week is the first photographer and curator of photography for the Smithsonian, Thomas Smillie.

Links for this episode:

• National Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Fly-by-wire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Smithsonian's First Photographer | Smithsonian Institution Archives
  
• Bill Wadman (@billwadman) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Smithsonian's First Photographer | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #photographersChoice
  

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This week, are film shooters just better photographers? Also, we discuss a TIME article that suggests the idea that traditional photographs will soon become relics, out of time with the future of photography. Plus, a listener asks what we think of the classic “nifty fifty.” Pedro E. Guerrero is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #vintageProcess
  
• Process Driven: Sam Faulkner
  
• Film vs. Digital | Amber Events
  
• We’re All Artists Now - The New York Times
  
• Nikon D3s - Mark Seliger, Photographer - Baryshnikov Shoot - YouTube
  
• The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming | TIME
  
• The Future of Photography | Photoshop Blog by Adobe
  
• Hipstamatic - TinType
  
• Pedro E. Guerrero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Pedro E. Guerrero « | Official Pedro E. Guerrero Archives
  
• Pedro E. Guerrero ~ Preview | American Masters | PBS
  

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This week, we unpack some of the challenges around deciding that something is not art, just because you don’t agree with it or understand it. Does making art an “ism” stifle growth and innovation? Also, long before drones surveilled us, there were...pigeons? Plus, a tease of next week’s show, where we will be talking about what some believe to be the future of photography. Ilse Bing is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #metal
  
• Pier Exposure Set at MoMA form 1971
  
• Why is Modern Art so Bad? - Prager University
  
• The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly by James Hampton / American Art
  
• MoMA PS1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Pigeon photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Turn Your iPhone Into a Crappy 1985 Camcorder With This App
  
• Algorithm turns any picture into the work of a famous artist
  
• The Next Revolution in Photography Is Coming | TIME
  
• The Future of Photography | Photoshop Blog by Adobe
  
• The Hunt of the Unicorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Ilse Bing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
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• Queen of the Leica - Dieselpunks
  

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This week, we talk a little about gear and the ongoing debate over megapixels, using the new Sony A7R II as an example. We also talk about film and why it’s ultimately pointless to keep having the “film v digital” discussions. Spoiler: they’re just different. Use what challenges you and gets you out taking pictures. Grete Stern is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #windingdown
  
• Sony A7RII Review and Hands On Report - Luminous Landscape
  
• Sony a7R II Hands-on Review - YouTube
  
• Format Comparison Results : On Taking Pictures
  
• Why is Modern Art so Bad? - Prager University
  
• R3 MONOBATH DEVELOPER – New55 FILM
  
• Amazon - Paterson Universal tank and 2 reels-#115
  
• The Politics of the Curation Craze | The New Republic
  
• Pinhole Photography :: Digital SLR Camera Caps :: Olympus Four Thirds Cap - Lenox Laser - The Leader in Small Hole Technology
  
• An ‘Open Letter’ to Landscape Photographers: It’s Time for an Etiquette Check
  
• Grete Stern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Dream Life of Grete Stern
  
• MoMA | From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola
  
• Bruce Springsteen - Wings For Wheels - The Making of Born To Run -2005 - YouTube
  
• From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern & Horacio Coppola
  

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This week, inspired by a recent NPR story, we talk about the idea of art as an experience, where the mechanics of viewing objects become almost more important than the objects themselves. We also discuss some of the opportunities that young people have today, with regard to the viewing and sharing of their experiences, that we simply didn’t have when we were growing up. Plus, with so many cameras on the market, how do you recommend one to a friend who just wants to take good pictures? Lee Friedlander is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #UpsideDown
  
• People Love Art Museums — But Has The Art Itself Become Irrelevant? : NPR
  
• I Bought a Fake Nikon DSLR: My Experience with Gray Market Imports
  
• Kodak's First Digital Moment - The New York Times
  
• HDR Photography Is for Everyone - PC Mag
  
• Lee Friedlander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Lee Friedlander | MoMA
  
• Lee Friedlander | Fraenkel Gallery
  
• Giant Steps — The Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch - NYTimes.com
  

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This week, on our first all east coast edition of the show, we’re taking a stab at answering some of your questions. You have asked some really great questions this time around - around process, gear, where we think art is going, even asking about some of our favorite things. Anuar Patjane is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #Favoritethings
  
• Q&A@F+B No. 5: Bill Wadman - Faded & Blurred
  
• The Trip
  
• Mobile Photography | Enlight App
  
• KAGE COLLECTIVE
  
• Anuar Patjane Photography
  
• Winners of the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest - The Atlantic
  
• Bill's Interview with Ibarionex Perello of "The Candid Frame"
  

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