LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These short 2-4 minute talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 35 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work and building an audience. Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork is sold in over 1500 stores in the USA and has subscribers in 62 countries. His latest books are "Letting Go of the Camera" (2004) and "Single Exposures" (2005).
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LW0573: Japan 4 - Tanzaku
Published: 2009-11-19 12:09:23I'm taking with me some photographic tanzaku - or wind-poems, to leave in the prayer trees so they will dissolve in the rain and the wind and carry my images to the skies.
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LW0572: Japan 3 - Returning
Published: 2009-11-18 12:05:53This trip to Japan, I'm returning to the exact same areas I visited in the early 1990s - but with older eyes and newer technology.
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LW0571: Japan 2 - Winter Trees
Published: 2009-11-17 12:33:57This year, if all goes well that is, my annual Winter Trees folio will be from images I make while photographing in Japan the last two weeks of November.
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LW0570: Japan 1 - Fan Prints
Published: 2009-11-16 13:45:35While in Japan photographing, I'll be working on several projects. One of them is an experiment to make photographs with non-rectangular borders. I'll be experimenting with Japanese fan-shaped images in the style of woodblock prints. .
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LW0569: The Enormity of a Project
Published: 2009-11-12 12:48:22When the project is so large as to be overwhelming, the obvious strategy to overcome hesitancy is to divide it into doable bits.
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LW0568: Destination Unknown
Published: 2009-11-11 18:42:40It is a natural human reaction to freeze when you can't see the destination. Think about entering a totally black and unfamiliar room. When we can't see the end of our art project, the same kind of hesitancy can take control of our actions.
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LW0567: Fear and the Source of Inspiration
Published: 2009-11-10 12:03:15It is very common at the beginning of an art project to experience a fear based in self-doubt. Such fears dissolve, however, when the inspiration comes from the right source.
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LW0566: A False Sense of Accomplishment
Published: 2009-11-09 16:59:27We can be so self-deceptive when it comes to getting in our own way and preventing ourselves from accomplishing what we say we want to accomplish.
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LW0565: The Artmakers of the Future
Published: 2009-10-20 13:46:16We are all born with the drive of the artist within us. What can we do to nurture that drive in the artmakers of the future?
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LW0564: Lost Family Photos
Published: 2009-10-19 13:37:53We all have photo albums that help us remember the times of our lives. But perhaps there is more we should do to make these artifacts meaningful to our progeny so the content of these photographs are not lost to future generations.
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