This week, standout work from last weekend’s Paris Photo LA and some observations on the growing trend of really big prints and really banal subject matter. Also, abstraction and alternative processes in mainstream photography. Plus, a revision on the “through the window” debacle from a few weeks ago. Scottish photographer Bill Anderson is our PotW.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ : Assignment: #abstraction
  
• Welcome to Paris Photo Los Angeles - international fine art photography fair - Paramount Pictures Studios
  
• Alex Timmermans | Alchemist
  
• Joni Sternbach Photography
  
• Michal Macku - Paris Photo Los Angeles
  
• Carbon Transfer Printing - Developing the Print - YouTube
  
• Nadav Kander - Paris Photo Los Angeles
  
• This Leica M-P 'Correspondent' Edition Was Designed by Lenny Kravitz
  
• Triggertrap Ada: Modular Camera Trigger by Triggertrap — Kickstarter
  
• Glamour Photos Replace Selfies for Personal Branding - NYTimes.com
  
• Glamour selfies: People are shelling out for professional social media portraits.
  
• 'Out My Window' Offers A Voyeuristic Peek Into Strangers' Lives
  
• Andre Kertesz, Watching From Above - NYTimes.com
  
• Bill Anderson — Wilding Cran Gallery
  
• 19_RETAIL_WINDOW_REFLECTION.jpg (908×417)
  
• 9_TRANSIT_SHELTER.jpg (910×417)
  
• 15_FLOWER_SHOP.jpg (910×417)
  
• 4_COUNTERBALANCE+#1.jpg (909×420)
  

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This week, we’re testing Mixlr for doing live episodes of OTP. We begin the first episode of Year Four (can you believe it?) with an email from a listener talking about the relative value of “formal” groups and associations with regard to photography and the visual arts. Does belonging to an “official” group, such as ASMP help your career? If so, how? Also, we discuss an interesting article talking about the differences between fact and fiction in photojournalism and how the new storytelling is driving what direction the genre is taking. Landscape and architectural photographer Franco Fontana is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• American Society of Media Photographers
  
• PPA | Professional Photographers of America
  
• Fact and Fiction in Modern Photography - NYTimes.com
  
• Osteria Francescana - L'osteria di Massimo Bottura.
  
• Fact and Fiction in Modern Photography - NYTimes.com
  
• Review: How Netflix's 'Chef's Table' Reinvents the Cookin | Indiewire
  
• Franco Fontana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Franco Fontana || Full Color - YouTube
  
• Photo & Contemporary - Franco Fontana
  
• Franco Fontana photographer (English subtitles) - YouTube
  

This week marks the end of three years of bringing you OTP every week. We start out the episode discussing your poll responses to last week’s court ruling around photography and privacy. We also talk about the DUFFY documentary and wonder about impact and legacy. Who are your most iconic photographers? Plus, a discussion around the recent Sally Mann essay in the New York Times magazine. Christopher Marley is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+ - Assignment: #fashion
  
• Adorama: From Concept to Composite - Post Production with Bill Wadman
  
• Jean-Claude Pondevie - Paris Photo Agenda
  
• Brian Duffy (photographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Duffy - Photographer | Duffy Photographer - 1933 - 2010
  
• Sally Mann’s Exposure - NYTimes.com
  
• Learn Photography & Discover the Best Photography Gear
  
• Pheromone Wholesale | Christopher Marley
  
• Slide Show: The Right Stuff - The New Yorker
  
• Pheromone: The Insect Artwork of Christopher Marley on Amazon
  
• Biophilia by Christopher Marley on Amazon
  

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This week, we discuss a recent ruling around privacy and art—what that could mean to you not only as a photographer, but also as a citizen. Also, we attempt to weigh in on some ideas around content vs. curation, using a recent MoMA show as an example. Plus, a link to a fantastic documentary that we’ll be discussing in next week’s show. Pentti Sammallahti is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures Community - Google+ - Assignment: #market
  
• Heart - Stairway to Heaven (Live at Kennedy Center Honors) [FULL VERSION] - YouTube
  
• Family loses legal battle against photog who took their pics
  
• Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness
  
• MOMA’s Embarrassing Björk Crush - The New Yorker
  
• Qimage Ultimate - The Ultimate in Batch Photo Printing
  
• Who’s Really to Blame for MoMA’s Björkgate?
  
• PrinTao 8 for Mac
  
• Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography | The Getty Museum
  
• THE MAN WHO SHOT THE SIXTIES on Vimeo
  
• Pentti Sammallahti | Nailya Alexander Gallery
  
• Here Far Away: The Visual Fables of Pentti Sammallahti - LightBox
  
• Pentti Sammallahti - Artists - Peter Fetterman
  
• "Here Far Away Hardcover" by Pentti Sammallahti
  
• Beyond the Reach Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine Movie HD - YouTube
  

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This week, we’re talking footprints...social footprints and how, for some types of photography, being a good (or even great) photographer is no longer enough. It’s also about how many eyes you bring along with you. Bill shares his recent experience judging selections for a camera club in NYC. Joni Sternbach is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #bloom
  
• 5by5 | The Dan Benjamin Hour #23: The White Trailer
  
• Instagram professional turns hobby into career
  
• Hiroaki Fukuda (@hirozzzz) • Instagram photos and videos
  
• Survival Guide Interview with Artist Rep Maren Levinson - YouTube
  
• Joni Sternbach Photography
  
• Joni Sternbach - Photographer on Vimeo
  
• Through a 19th century lens
  
• Joni Sternbach: Surf Site Tin Type on Amazon
  

This week, we talk a bit about the democratization of photography vs demonetization, not from the point of view of making money but from simply making pictures. Also, how can social media impact photography as an individual pursuit? When did photography become a social activity? Francesca Woodman is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• OTP G+ Group - Assignment #shoes
  
• Why I would happily spend 3€ on every shot I take - THE ZEN PHOTOGRAPHERTHE ZEN PHOTOGRAPHER
  
• Big Fence: a Photographic Portrait of Pitcairn Island - Fundraising film on Vimeo
  
• Tidelands - Coil - Official Video - YouTube
  
• Francesca Woodman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Francesca Woodman on artnet
  
• Haunted Genius: The Tragic Life and Death of Francesca Woodman
  
• The Woodmans (2010) - IMDb
  
• B&W 2.0 Film for 600 Black Frame | Impossible. Analog Instant Film and Cameras.
  

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This week, a question sent in for last week’s Q&A show around deciding how to know when something just isn’t working sparks a terrific discussion on purpose, intent, cutting through the noise and even throwing in the towel. We also talk about how to give your own work value, when value is so subjective. Harold "Doc" Edgerton and Gjon Mili are our first dual Photographers of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Sebastião Salgado’s Journey From Brazil to the World - NYTimes.com
  
• Wim Wenders | Welcome to the official Site of WIM WENDERS
  
• Welcome to DrewStruzan.com
  
• Drew: The Man Behind The Poster
  
• Flashtube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Paul Buff Obituary - JACKSON, AL | Mobile Register and Baldwin County
  
• Speed of flash for high speed photography
  
• FIELD NOTES COLORS:“TWO RIVERS” EDITION
  
• Harold Eugene Edgerton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Quicker'n a Wink

It’s Q&A time and we do our best to answer the questions you’ve sent in. We got a ton of great questions this time about gear, process, business and even a few that were too big to tackle, so we’ll get them in the mix for larger discussions next week. William Albert Allard is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• OTP Google+ Community - Assignment: #facelessportrait
  
• How well has “The Breakfast Club” aged? I watched it with my teenage son to find out. - The Washington Post
  
• 4 Year Old Boy Plays Piano Better Than Any Master - YouTube
  
• The Things We Do For Love: Why Self-Investing Isn't Self-Indulgence - Process Driven
  
• List — Bill Wadman
  
• William Albert Allard
  
• William Albert Allard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• William Albert Allard on Being a Nat Geo Photographer: You Have to Care
  
• The Candid Frame #105 - William Albert Allard | The Candid Frame: A Photography Podcast
  

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This week, a memo written by David Mamet sparks a discussion around the meaning and importance we give the things we make. Also a follow up on the Norman Seef video and how, for some photographers, the connection with the subject is the point and the photographs are merely a byproduct of the experience. Leonard Freed is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #somewhereNew
  
• David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit - Movieline
  
• Scriptnotes, 186: The Rules (or, the Paradox of the Outlier) | A ton of useful information about screenwriting from screenwriter John August
  
• Endgame (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Lake Street Dive Plays "I Want You Back" On a Boston Sidewalk - YouTube
  
• Norman Seeff, Photographer, Filmmaker, Healer (EG8) on Vimeo
  
• World Press Photo Revokes Prize - NYTimes.com
  
• Andy Gock : Newcastle Photographer Actual Measured Flash Durations of Small Speedlight Strobes
  
• Leonard Freed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Leonard Freed part1 - YouTube
  
• Magnum Photos Photographer Portfolio
  

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This week, what a difference a week makes. We begin with some followup to last week’s show and discuss expectation, process vs product and how for some (me) Artist is not the same as artist. Also, iconic photographers don’t always make iconic photographs. Plus, we reflect a bit on the life of Leonard Nimoy both as an actor and as our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #goldenhour
  
• The Private Photo Shoot that Sparked a War Inside Van Halen — Cuepoint — Medium
  
• Norman Seeff, Photographer, Filmmaker, Healer (EG8) on Vimeo
  
• Object:Photo | MoMA
  
• Gallery | Object:Photo | MoMA
  
• Sohei Nishino - Diorama Map New York
  
• Object:Photo MoMA Book
  
• Why photobooks are booming in a digital age - FT.com
  
• A Photo Editor
  
• FlakPhoto.com | Photography Online
  
• How I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security | Ars Technica
  
• Apple - iPhone 6 - World Gallery
  
• 35 Beautiful Art Photographs Made By Leonard Nimoy
  
• Leonard Nimoy Photography on Pinterest | 54 Pins
  
• Episode 56: Remembering Leonard Nimoy — Super Fantastic Nerd Hour!
  
• The Full Body Project by Leonard Nimoy - Book
  

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