On Taking Pictures

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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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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