This week, does “most expensive” always equate to best? SPOILER: No. Also, does finding an emotional connection to photographs (or any creative endeavor) mean finding an anchor you can relate to from your own life experience or can art have meaning in a vacuum? Plus, a terrific video series from the George Eastman House. Jane Bown is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Jeff Frost | Press Releases
  
• This is the Most Expensive Photograph in the World | The Creators Project
  
• The $6.5m canyon: it's the most expensive photograph ever – but it's like a hackneyed poster in a posh hotel | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Photography is art and always will be | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Before Photography - Photographic Processes Series - Chapter 1 of 12 - YouTube
  
• Excerpt of Black Drop - Simon Starling on Vimeo
  
• Four Poets Discuss Their Favorite Photographs
  
• "Capturing the Light" on Amazon
  
• "Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color" on Amazon
  
• Graham Hughes: British man is first person to visit all 201 countries WITHOUT using a plane | Daily Mail Online
  
• National Portrait Gallery - Person - Jane Bown
  
• Video: Jane Bown on photographing Beckett, Björk and the Beatles | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Photographer Jane Bown
  

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This week, what makes a “good” photograph (or painting, sculpture, film, etc.)? Are there checkboxes that need to be hit or is good something more intangible, more ephemeral - maybe even exclusively personal? Also, once you do make something good, what do you charge for it? Where does value come from? Arthur Leipzig is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Tony Zarak Photography
  
• Bill's Polaroid 55 Portraits on Behance
  
• Art Prices - Photography: Cinema
  
• When Photographers Become Self-Publishing Companies | TIME
  
• Stop Taking Pictures of Homeless People | VICE | United States
  
• What’s the biggest problem with women artists? None of them can actually paint, says Georg Baselitz - News - Art - The Independent
  
• pavel_kosenko: 4x5 Kodachromes
  
• 4×5 Kodachromes | Pavel Kosenko's blog (English version)
  
• Kodachromes | Shorpy Historic Picture Archive
  
• On Taking Pictures — Kristopher
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+ Assignment: #joy
  
• Arthur Leipzig, Photographer
  
• Arthur Leipzig, Photographer of Everyday Life in New York, Dies at 96 - NYTimes.com
  

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This week, we’re talking about the friction of creativity, getting out of your own way and how often the only way out is through. Also, finding help with the work that isn’t in your wheelhouse and using process to overcome technical limitations. Anne Geddes is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• DIORAMA MAP AMSTERDAM from the project "Sohei Nishino: Cities" on Vimeo
  
• han_solo_rare_master_replicas_prototype_blaster_prop_replica.jpg (1280×854)
  
• Leica M4 Garry Winogrand
  
• Fight Over Yahoo’s Use of Flickr Photos - WSJ
  
• OS X Lion: Transfer files between two computers using target disk mode
  
• On Taking Pictures — Kristopher
  
• Miracle — Anne Geddes
  
• Anne Geddes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Inside the Studio with Anne Geddes | CreativeLive - Learn. Be Inspired.
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+ - Assignment: #collage
  
• Anne Geddes books and such on Amazon
  

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This week, Inspired by an email exchange Bill and I had with a listener, we ask each other as well as all of you: “What makes a good photographer?” Is it the work? Is it ONLY the work? Or is making interesting (read: good) work merely a byproduct of being an interesting person? Can you even separate the person from the work? Plus, Sohei Nishino is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Jose Villa | Fine Art Wedding Photography
  
• Sally Mann - Landscapes
  
• Review: The HBO documentary Banksy Does New York asks, “Who owns art?” · TV Review · The A.V. Club
  
• ArtSlant - Do We Need Galleries Anymore? The Utility of Online Exhibitions
  
• The Gates (installation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Public Art Fund : The New York City Waterfalls
  
• Switzerland May Give Every Citizen $2,600 a Month | Motherboard
  
• Telectroscope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Pomplamoose 2014 Tour Profits — Medium
  
• PomplamooseMusic - YouTube
  
• Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum
  
• ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer
  
• Custom Photo-Printed Adidas Sneakers Finally Available in U.S. | Popular Photography
  
• Nike PHOTOiD Makes Custom-Colored Sneakers Inspired By Instagram Photos | Popular Photography
  
• Stand Here with Rodney Lough Jr.
  
• Stand Here on the App Store on iTunes
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ Community - Assignment: #sound
  
• Sohei Nishino
  
• Sohei Nishino - Diorama Map New York
  

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This week, a discussion around a documentary about Polaroid, called Time Zero, gets us wondering about objects versus process and whether there is more intrinsic value in the artifact or the content. We also look at a few “link-baity” news items around the value of photography as art. Carrie Mae Weems is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Time Zero | The Last Year of Polaroid Film
  
• Instant: The Story of Polaroid
  
• Triumph the insult comic dog - bon jovi - Video Dailymotion
  
• Modern Art Was Used As a Torture Technique in Prison Cells During the Spanish Civil War | Open Culture
  
• Is Black and White Photography a Gimmick?
  
• Flat, soulless and stupid: why photographs don’t work in art galleries | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Morning Edition: How Kodak's Shirley Cards Set Photography's Skin-Tone Standard - WNYC
  
• Bryan Adams' heartstopping images of wounded British soldiers to go on show at Somerset House - Home News - UK - The Independent
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+ Assignment: #horizon
  
• Carrie Mae Weems
  

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This week, are you an artist or an entrepreneur? While on the surface they may seem similar, each offers a unique set of challenges that often require very different approaches to overcome. It’s an important question that many of us wrestle with as we try to find a balance between creating art and producing product. Guatemalan shooter Luis Gonzalez Palma is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• StartUp Podcast
  
• Blackmagic Design: DaVinci Resolve 11
  
• Keira Knightley Protests Photoshop: 'I Think Women's Bodies Are A Battleground'
  
• Allow This Century Old Selfie To Make You Feel Really, Really Old
  
• The Story of Photography | People, Events, Art & Technology - PhotoBox
  
• Killing Lincoln | National Geographic Channel
  
• Talented 7-Year-Old Art Prodigy Delights Art World With Her Expressive Paintings - DesignTAXI.com
  
• Time Zero | The Last Year of Polaroid Film
  
• Bud Light Salutes Real Men of Genius
  
• Luis González Palma
  
• First Run Features: THROUGH A LENS DARKLY
  
• OPT G+ Group - Assignment: #distortion
  

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This week, a wrap up of our terrific OTP meetup in Philly sparks an interesting discussion. Should art - both the making and the viewing - be a privilege or a right, regardless of ethnicity or economic standing? Are humans better with a healthy serving of art and culture in their diets? Also, is there such thing as too much art? Fascinating installation artist Chris Engman is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• If you’re lucky enough to earn a living from your art, you’re probably white - The Washington Post
  
• Amelia Earhart plane part possibly found on Pacific island - NY Daily News
  
• CHRIS ENGMAN : WRITINGS : ARTIST STATEMENT
  
• Luis De Jesus - Chris Engman
  
• OTP G+ Group Assignment: #food
  
• Jeffery's video of his dad made with Animoto
  

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This week, is your image your own? Should photographers be able to use photographs of you without your permission - or even your knowledge? Also, an interesting discussion around when the idea for a project is more interesting than the execution. Plus, pricing and what freelance photographers can expect to make. Miller Mobley is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA: “Philip-Lorca diCorcia – Portfolio” (2001) | AMERICAN SUBURB X
  
• Street photography: A right or invasion? - The New York Times
  
• NY artist is suspect in national park vandalism | Las Vegas Review-Journal
  
• Rachel Sussman
  
• Mamiya 7II Review by Jack Zyberk
  
• Usage and Pricing of Photography in Social Media — Medium
  
• What Is Photography When Everyone’s a Photographer? | Fringe Arts | The Link
  
• Prevailing Rates Of Photo Assignments From Various Companies Revealed - DesignTAXI.com
  
• Millicent Rogers Museum - Taos Authentic History & Culture Antiques
  
• Maria Martinez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Taking Pictures: A Way for Photographers to Protect Their Work - The New Yorker
  
• 12 Exhibitions that Changed Photography Forever - LightBox
  
• Miller Mobley | Photographer & Director | New York
  
• Alabama-born photographer tells us what it's like to shoot portraits of the President and Michelle Obama | AL.com
  
• OTP G+ Group: Assignment: #MultipleExposure
  

This week, we turn the show over to you, the listeners. It’s not so much a Q&A show as it is taking deeper look at previous topics that you’ve written in about. Topics include sources of inspiration, whether video is a “must”, how to improve, what not to shoot, the future of photography and even our favorite photos. Plus, you get to hear us botch the pronunciation of J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• The Art Museum: Phaidon Press
  
• kertesz_4.jpg (745×1000)
  
• Richard-Avedon-Dovima-with-Elephants.jpg (2100×2621)
  
• Exposure | Film Emulation & Photo Effects | Alien Skin Software
  
• Melissa Wadman on Kodak Portra 800
  
• richard_avedon_031.jpg (498×604)
  
• MoMA | Henri Matisse: The Swimming Pool
  
• MoMA | The Collection | Robert Rauschenberg. Rebus. 1955
  
• J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Coiling Penny Penny by J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere - Pigozzi Collection 2014 - Contemporary African Art Collection
  
• J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere: Photographs: J. D. Okhai Ojeikere, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Andre Magnin, Elizabeth Akuyo Oyairo: 9783908247302: Amazon.com: Books
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+
  Assignment: #Mobile

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This week, with such great gear at our disposal, why does Program mode get such a bad wrap? Also should you be take a more serious look at Instagram as a delivery platform for your work? Pulitzer prize winning photojournalist Tyler Hicks is our Photographer of the week.

Links for this episode:

• Heroes, Villains & Jedi - KEVIN KNIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
  
• The Daily Show - Race/Off - YouTube
  
• When Instagram Success Leads To Advertising Assignments: Lauren Lemon
  
• MoMA | Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor
  
• Tax Court Ruling Is Seen as a Victory for Artists - NYTimes.com
  
• On The National Mall, An American Portrait In Sand And Soil : NPR
  
• Upskirt Photos Don't Violate A Woman's Privacy, Rules D.C. Judge
  
• Tych Panel – The ultimate diptych, triptych & ntych automation tool for Photoshop (by Reimund Trost)
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+
  Assignment: #3shotstory

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