This week, we’re going deep into discussing the power of a single photograph. Social or emotional impact notwithstanding, are photographs (or art for that matter) better with additional context? Also, you’ll never believe what Carol Armstrong found in her closet. Iconic sports shooter Neil Leifer is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures 2015 Listener Survey
  
• On Taking Pictures - G+ - Assignment: #streetscene
  
• Humans of New York
  
• Lets Send Kids to Harvard: Vidal Scholarship Fund | Indiegogo Life
  
• Obama meets kid who inspired million-dollar Humans of New York fundraiser
  
• Beyond the veil: photographs can be more powerful than art | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Locus Online Perspectives » Kameron Hurley: The Privilege to Publish; the Power to Persevere
  
• The Sartorialist
  
• 190 Bowery on Vimeo
  
• Meeting your Heroes : On Taking Pictures
  
• The long-lost Apollo 11 artifacts discovered in Neil Armstrong’s closet - The Washington Post
  
• LensVid Exclusive: What Happened to the Photography Industry in 2014? - LensVid.comLensVid.com
  
• Affinity Photo - Professional image editing software for Mac
  
• Film is Here to Stay! Studios and Kodak Strike a Deal | Indiewire
  
• The Bixby Bridge by Moonlight | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  
• Sports | Categories | Neil Leifer
  
• Professional Photographer Neil Leifer discusses his 50-year collection on Vimeo
  

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This week, a bunch of recent articles around use and copyright have us discussing “Who really owns what, and for how long?” Also, should art be enjoyed or merely collected? Bill may have found the perfect camera...for him. Louise Dahl-Wolfe is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures 2015 Listener Survey
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #square
  
• Photographer sues Nike over rights to Jordan 'Jumpman' logo: Digital Photography Review
  
• How an incredible coincidence sparked a Facebook plagiarism row - Telegraph
  
• Crowdsourced Instagram Photos of Snowstorm Land on the Front Page of the New York Times
  
• Adobe is suing Forever 21 for pirating Photoshop | The Verge
  
• Art for Money’s Sake - NYTimes.com
  
• Ebony Seeks Buyer for Photo Archive Worth $40 Million - NBC News.com
  
• 3-D printing and copyright: Replicas of 16th-century sculptures are not off-limits.
  
• Why every photo storage startup dies or gets acquired | The Verge
  
• Canon EOS 5DS & EOS 5DS R Specifications « Canon Rumors
  
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe - Google Search
  
• Museum of Contemporary Photography
  
• Louise Dahl-Wolfe: A Retrospective on Amazon
  

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This week, a domestic worker wins a Magnum Fellowship, two Magnum icons try Google Glass and we discuss entertainment before the word “format.” Also, we discuss what happens when you stop trusting your gear? “Small Town Inertia” shooter Jim Mortram is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures 2015 Listener Survey
  
• Prince Harry's Moving Photos Prove African Orphans Aren't Just The Face Of AIDS
  
• Xyza Cruz Bacani - Filipino Street and Documentary Photographer
  
• MAGNUM FOUNDATION — Announcing Our 2015 HUMAN RIGHTS Fellows
  
• Magnum Photographers Give Google Glass a Test Spin - SPIEGEL ONLINE
  
• Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers | NPPA
  
• HBO: Documentaries | Witness: Juarez | Home
  
• Joe Franklin, a Talk Show Institution in New York, Dies at 88 - NYTimes.com
  
• NASA Just Released The Largest Picture Ever Taken And It Will Shake Up Your Universe |Higher Perspective
  
• Trusting Your Equipment — Bill Wadman
  
• Stephen King: 'Writing is hypnosis' - YouTube
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #throughawindow
  
• J A Mortram
  
• Small Town Inertia
  

This week, a conversation overheard on the train sparks a discussion around the need to create or not and whether we would trade a creative life (whatever that means) for a nine to five if we could. Also, is your personal value in the experience of making or in the resulting artifact/object? Obscure Romanian shooter Andre Pandele is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Congressman John Lewis Dancing to Pharrell Williams' "Happy": "Nothing Can Bring Me Down" - YouTube
  
• Dictabelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• From Wax Cylinders To Records, Saving The Sounds Of History : NPR
  
• The Rescued Film Project Archive
  
• Hand Processing Kodachrome
  
• Finding Vivian Maier nominated for Best Documentary? It was one of the worst documentaries of 2014.
  
• Memory and pictures “This is not my Memory” | Wallace Koopmans Artlog
  
• WhiteAlbum
  
• Mosaic Photo Books: Create a printed album from your phone
  
• Robert Frank Collection Guide
  
• Why you should stop relying on your phone, and buy a nice camera | The Verge
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #redux
  
• BBC News - A lost city: Photos of Bucharest's past
  
• Pandele81003.jpg | EST&OST
  
• Book Insider: Forbidden photos and personal images by Andrei Pandele | Romania-Insider.com
  

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This week, a few shorter discussions around work for hire vs licensing your work, work that becomes relevant years after it was produced and whether or not your work should continue after you are no longer the one producing it. Deborah Parkin is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Three Records From Sundown | 99% Invisible
  
• A Last Gift From The Genius Mind of Taylor Negron: Reflections On A Life Spent Playing Everyman - xoJane
  
• Imagista - His Majesty of Modesty - Richard Butler
  
• The Posters Will Produce Affordable Art With a Touch of Charity
  
• Help: I Am Being Sued for Nearly $500,000 by a Model I Photographed
  
• Text - H.R.5893 : Ansel Adams Act | Congress.gov
  
• Opinion: When It Comes to the 'Ansel Adams Act,' the Devil is in the Details
  
• How the Selfie Stick Is Killing the Selfie | TIME
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #bestof2014
  
• Deborah Parkin Photography Hexham Northumberland
  

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Welcome to 2015! In this week’s show, we talk about how sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t get you very far and how copyright and the web still has a long way to go. Also, a terrific email from a listener raises the question “What would you do?” Portland based shooter Delaney Allen is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Robert Rauschenberg | Erased de Kooning Drawing
  
• 2014's Top Cinematographers on Film vs. Digital | Indiewire
  
• Wet Plate Collodion Portraits of Barbie Dolls
  
• Why your digital photos might die before your grandkids see them - Money - TODAY.com
  
• Selfie stick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+ Assignment: #beforeandafter
  
• Delaney Allen
  

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We’re finishing off 2014 with one last listener Q&A show. But first, we’re talking about the idea of planned obsolescence. Is current gear as good as it was 20 years ago? Is anything? Then, Bill’s trip to a recent Saul Leiter show in NYC sparks some discussion around the idea of posthumous artist foundations and legacy. User submitted photojournalist Matt Black is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Gallery Calendar - The National Arts Club
  
• 365 Portraits — Bill Wadman Photographs
  
• Willem de Kooning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Amazon: DeKooning, a retrospective
  
• Matt Black Photography | The Dispossession | Photograph Four
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - Google+ Assignment: #renewal
  

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This week, we discuss a documentary on last week’s Photographer of the Week, Jane Bown, who recently passed away at 89. Can photography be “just” a job and still be important? Or do we have to approach it as art (whatever that means to you) for it to have any sort of deeper meaning? Pioneer of early motion studies, Eadweard Muybridge is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• On Taking Pictures | iHeartRadio
  
• Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin Reunion - 1976 MDA Telethon - YouTube
  
• Serial Sucked And Wasted Everyone's Time
  
• Jane Bown obituary | Art and design | The Guardian
  
• Bored Coworkers Recreate Classic Paintings Using Office Supplies | DeMilked
  
• Flickr yanks photos from store after Creative Commons backlash - SFGate
  
• Massive Fuji firmware update: X-T1, X-E2, X-E1, and X-Pro1 gain impressive new features
  
• Freeze Frame- Muybridge in Motion
  
• Eadweard Muybridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Muybridge
  
• Freeze Frame
  
• Motion Gallery – Experiments In Motion
  
• On Taking Pictures - Community - G+ Assignment: #family
  
• American Brand: Quality Outerwear, Outdoor Clothing, and Bags | Filson
  

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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