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Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process.
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We interviewed Jay Dusard for LensWork #78. Here is a short audio clip of his thoughts on the process of composing a photograph - or, to be precise, a different way of thinking about...
We all know photographers who are all talk and no go. If you've got a great idea for a photography project, then do it. The rest of us are more interested in your ACCOMPLISHMENT than...
When your project (or your team) just sucks, you can always look forward to spring training and hope for
a revival against the odds.
Should the dictionary tell us the correct use of the language, or the language as it is actually being used? What about galleries? What about photography publications?
If perfection is our goal but is unachievable in practice, is there no hope for us? Are we artists doomed to produce only flawed artwork? Will the Devil always win?
The tiniest flaw can influence an entire work of art. I might go so far as to say that the true work of artmaking is paying attention to and managing the details of the project.
I find the black-and-white print says something much more universal than a color one. Where color allows the photographer to say something about a man, the same image in black and white...
For those of you who have been searching for the formula that will allow you to create the perfect photograph, I will divulge the secret recipe that guarantees success.
Photography is a blending of idea and artifact. Where does your career -- or any given project you are working on -- fit in the scale that has IDEA at one end and ARTIFACT at the other?...
Your intended results should be the guide to the equipment you need -- a point demonstrated by a comparison of the $30,000 Phase 1 digital back and my Sony DSC-R1.
Okay, well, it didn't SAVE my life, but it's such a wonderful invention I can't imagine life without it. Along the same lines, here are a few little gadgety things that have become
Here are three recommendations of books I think every photographer should read -- and re-read. Some of the best thinking about photography and the creative process you will likely find...
We all know about the "six degrees of separation" - but we should not forget that this same kind of thing occurs in our own career relative to our own past work.
There is a very good reason to consider cross-media production of our photographic artwork -- as this example from Jeremy Irons' involvement in "Brideshead Revisited" demonstrates.
How long do you spend with a photography book, or at an exhibition? Could it be that our great challenge as photographers is to engage our audience in more profound ways?
There is a limit to how much homemade bread a person can consume. What to do? A question surprisingly useful for photographers.
Lessons from one area of life often can be unexpectedly applied in another. Here is an example.
Photography is a technologically intensive pursuit. And, wherever technology is involved, change is inevitable -- as both the history of photography and our own personal histories tell...
One of the central themes in photography is its ability to connect us with one another -- over time, over distance, over differences. How marvelous!
Each time we read that we've lost another great photographer (this week, Cornell Capa) is a reminder of the "thank you" they have earned -- and the torch they have passed to us.
The downside of ubiquitous photography is that it may seduce us into postponing experiencing life in the present. Why live life now when we can pull it up from the hard drive when we...
Some may see this as the "Age of Contention," -- where we know what we like and that's all that we like. But, such specialization can also lead to deeper connections between artist
Life is suffering, and it's not our role as artists to deny this. It is, however, our role to rise above it.
Perhaps one of the very first steps in the creative life is to surround ourselves with an environment that supports it -- especially the mental environment.
A foreign language is just noise to our untrained ears -- just like photographs that include foreign symbols and conventions are to an untrained eye/mind. Watch out for the "communication"...
A closer examination of the intellectual response to a photograph.
The general public can so easily relate to so many kinds of art -- like chocolate cake, for example, which is appreciated with a universal "yum." On the other hand, photography, unlike...
The real reason for making archival prints has little to do with time, but a great deal to do with our attitude toward our work.
A perspective on history, 200 years of art and creativity, and the archival properties of our photographs -- with, I should add, a comment on photographic vanity.
The folio paradigm is a creative structure that fosters production and yet allows -- even encourages! -- creative flexibility within that structure. A perfect paradigm for my particular...
Print size, empty magnification, and the experience of viewing a print held in one's hand.
Photography is about relationships - and one of the things I love
about folios is the way they create a physical, tactile relationship between the viewer and the print, and even between...
Binding individual flat prints is almost impossible. I know, I've tried. Instead of solving the problem of binding single sheets, why not just solve the problem by thinking creatively...
This podcast begins a series on "folios" -- collections of prints that are neither a portfolio, nor a book -- a format of presentation ideal for individual, unbound prints. We've recently...
I was invited to give a talk at an opening of an exhibition of my "Made of Steel" work at The Wilson Center for the Arts at Florida Community College in Jacksonville, Florida. This
True, creativity implies creating. But, artmaking -- and this is especially true in photography -- is also a process of reverse engineering. What lessons abound in working backward
Few in photography would disagree with me in saying that Bill Jay is one of the great treasures in all of photography. Did you know he now has a website? An enthusiastic recommenda
Some say we live in "the age of the Internet." Step back for a slightly wider field of view and one could propose that we live in "the age of Media" -- and a changing and morphing world...
What really fascinates me about photography is its ability to allow me to see the world through other's eyes. What magic!
Print size preferences may be a function of what we're used to. In my case, my relationship with photographs is almost always the small print -- as seen in books, submissions to LensWork,...
When should the really big money come to a fine art photographer? While they are doing their great work (before they are famous) or after they are known? Perhaps a look at other areas...
Every (photographic) mistake we make will be recorded in God's Little Black Book to be used against us in the Final Judgment Day. I was taught this when I was 6 and I can't seem to
When judging others work, to what do we compare it? To the best photography in our town? To the best photography in the world? To the best photography in all of history? What is fa
How I lost faith in equipment and found it in myself -- or, True Confessions from a Photographer Who Botched It Big Time. (There, I feel better.)
"Gourmet Gold Medallion Coffee" and the art world, or "How Moichanding Has Infected the Arts."
The relationship (or lack thereof) between art prices and the cash needed to put food on the table.
I may be out on a limb here, but the way I see it, there are two kinds of fame in photography. There is fame that follows the photograph and fame that follows the concept.
When you photograph, do you photograph what you photograph? Or, do you photograph what isn't?
There is a difference between a retrospective and a monograph. A review of the highlights may give us a recap, but it is not the work itself.
The visible hand of the artist in various media. Photography is, in some regards, more like musical composition than musical performance.
In the olden days of photography when I was just a wee lad (ahem), we learned from the masters of photography. Now we learn from the masters of software.
Hollywood routinely retouches the photographs of its stars to make them look better than real life. Hmmm . . .
To this day, there are still those who think photography is not really an art form. We photographers would do well to remember this and take every opportunity to educate and persuade...
With 2008 just around the corner, time to think about next year's photo events. Some comments on workshops and "photo festivals."
Here's a new technology to keep your eye on -- especially considering the pace of technological evolution. It may seem far-fetched today, but so did the Internet a scant 15 years a
Well, we busted iTunes -- or to be more precise, we now have more content than iTunes can comfortably handle. With over 450 podcasts now available -- and counting! -- the XML file that...
