photography
Words Want Images To Illustrate And Illuminate
> “Words want images to illustrate and illuminate them, while images want words to clarify and contextualize them.” — Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography by David Levi Strauss [http://aperture.org/shop/words-not-spent-today-buy-smaller-images-tomorrow-books]
I Still Can't Be Ok With Just My iPhone
> “Life is really enjoyable, and we should be using all of our gadgets to capture the story of that enjoyment and whatever gadget you might use to do that — just make sure you are capturing the right things and not the ‘artsy’ things.”
The Dark Room — The Brooks Review Podcast
Ben Brooks had me on his podcast today to rant for a while about photography.
Perfect Photos
This is the video of the Ignite talk I did on how to take perfect photos every time.
There’s Nothing New Under the Strobe
The greatest revelations in photography every year, are generally repeated revelations. They’re made every year in countless books, blogs and even this newsletter. There’s nothing wrong with this. In fact, it’s necessary. Discovery is a problem. It’s a problem in music, since unlimited access to unlimited
The Snapshot is King
There’s no more damning critique of a photograph than “It’s a snapshot.” This makes no sense to me. Let’s examine what a snapshot is. * Snapshots are usually reserved for family, friends and events, where we’d rather be enjoying ourselves than setting up a tripod. * A snapshot
And Don't Call Me Shirley
The Zucker brothers made some of the most classic comedy films of the 1980s, like Airplane and The Naked Gun. It seems like everyone, to this day, has tried copping their style, usually to disastrously unfunny results. When asked in 1991 about why their comedies were so much better than
Don't Be Precious
When it comes to getting creative work done, no one dishes out the tough love like Steven Pressfield, author of Do the Work [http://www.stevenpressfield.com/do-the-work/] and The War of Art [http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/]. Today, Steven released a video [http://blackirishbooks.myshopify.com/blogs/the-authentic-swing/8322324-foolscap-video-1]
David duChemin on Constraints
David duChemin [http://davidduchemin.com/2013/07/the-power-of-constraint/]: > “We need constraints. They force our hands creatively, and while many advocate embracing constraints, I suggest we go one better and create them.” Exactly. Our brains are set up to avoid the pain of creativity and embrace simple, painless and bland
"Visual Journalism" in the Instagram Era
An interview with “Photography Theorist” Fred Ritchin in Mother Jones [http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/07/bending-the-frame-fred-ritchin-photojournalism-instagram] get details about his new book, “Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen,” and his views on the state of photojournalism: > “There is enormous need for professionals who know how