Thoughts on Photography

Thoughts on Photography

Exploring what it means to live a photographic life.

86 Episodes of this Podcast:

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ToP #0083: Interview with Elizabeth Fleming

Published: 2009-11-10 00:00:00

Elizabeth Fleming's photography captures the small moments of everyday life. Children at play, objects in our everyday world, and the non-events that surround us provide opportunities to slow us down so that we can appreciate the wonderful subtleties that life offers us every day, that is if we will only take a moment to be stopped by it.

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ToP #0082: Interview with Ralf Bruck

Published: 2009-10-21 00:00:00

Ralf Bruck's photographs focus on architecture, landscapes, and people. Educated at the Duesseldorf School of Photography, Bruck's street photography, we might call it the social landscape in the United States, rarely show a complete situation but rather, he focuses on the small details that are typically overlooked through casual observation thus creating a new dialog between the images themselves and their relationship to the viewer.

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ToP #0081: Interview with Tootie Nienow

Published: 2009-10-18 04:06:00

Tootie Nienow enjoys exploring photography through experimentation both in terms of tools, technique, and subject matter. Her photography is both conceptual and sublime and at the same time her work is also intriguing and engaging, and yes, even beautiful too.

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ToP #0080: Interview with Beth Kientzle

Published: 2009-10-06 18:08:00

Beth Kientzle's photographs, which focus mostly on urban and natural landscapes, are made using alternative tools and techniques. This allows her to play with abstract shapes, light, and motion in her photographs. Although Kientzle's approach introduces an element of chance into her photography, it is chance tempered with a distinct and unique vision.

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ToP #0079: Project Without End

Published: 2009-09-17 21:03:00

This is the third podcast in a three part series where I explore in greater depth the idea of using projects to guide your photography. Today I'm talking about projects without end.

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ToP #0078: Working on Multiple Projects

Published: 2009-09-15 20:55:00

This is the second podcast in a three part series dealing with the issue of projects. Today I talk about working on multiple projects. Below are some links to various resources mentioned in the podcast.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_maphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mind_Mapping_software

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ToP #0077: Ideas vs. Projects

Published: 2009-09-13 20:53:00

I'm continuing with my exploration and discussion of photographic projects with a 3-part podcast series. In this first podcast, I want to explore the concept of ideas and how they may or may not lead to projects.

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ToP #0076: Interview with Liz Kuball

Published: 2009-08-25 00:00:00

Liz Kuball is based in Southern California. She began photographing in 2006 and since then has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, and Detroit. Her work has appeared online in the Humble Arts Foundation group show, FILE Magazine, and Flak Photo. In 2009, Liz was selected by the Humble Arts Foundation for inclusion in the Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography. Liz"s most recent and on-going body of work called "California Vernacularâ is a perfect example of the social landscape. Whether the photos are taken in the city, the suburb, or a rural place, Liz manages to capture the essence of our human existence in the natural environment. The result is sometimes poignant, sometimes whimsical but always engaging.

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ToP #0075: Interview with Jason Langer

Published: 2009-08-21 00:00:00

Jason Langer has been exhibiting in major galleries for 20 yrs. He was Michael Kenna's first assistant starting in 1989, and worked as a printer and retoucher for Kenna, Ruth Bernhard, Arthur Tress, James Fee and many others for 15 yrs. He has also been teaching at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for the past 10 yrs., teaching graduate and undergraduate students about his personal obsession with photography. In 2006, Nazrealli Press published a monograph of Jason's work called "Secret Cityâ which is a journey through damp-lit streets of anonymous cities and is infused with symbolism and intrigue.

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ToP #0074: Interview with Alan George

Published: 2009-08-17 00:00:00

Alan George is a San Francisco-based photographer who came to photography not through the halls of higher learning or by becoming enamored with photography as a child or as an artist in another medium who discovers photography as their "trueâ medium but rather, as someone who used a camera in much the same way as most people do, to record life's events . . . in other words, he was a snap-shooter. In 2003 photography became a more central part of Alan"s life, a way of exploring the social landscape.   The process of searching, selecting and examining something that would otherwise go unnoticed helped him to feel more conscious, more aware, more engaged, more alive.

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