Oct 31 2006
Photographers are not creators, they are editors. Unlike the painter, who starts with a blank canvas, we start with the whole world and our job is to remove all the “stuff” that doesn’t make our picture better; to pare down to the essence of the image. Ideally, we do this with the camera’s viewfinder, but sometimes, ya gotta crop.
Matera, Basilicata, 2006 – Photographs by Jeff Curto
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Oct 20 2006
Who is in your critical circle? Who looks at your work to help you define what is good and what “works”? Do you do it yourself? Can you trust yourself to be a good critic of your own work? This episode examines the idea of being your own best friend and your own best enemy.
Tuscany: Cloud, Tree and Hillside, 2005 – Photograph by Jeff Curto
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“Image Sorting” software:
Oct 16 2006
Another in an irregular series of suggestions for the photographic bookshelf. My selection this time is the Aperture monograph of the work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, but you may substitute that one book that made you realize new and different things about your medium; that changed your ideas about what photography could be. I also briefly examine the work of my mentor Neil Rappaport and note a panel discussion by Neil’s former students (including me!) that is taking place this coming Saturday, October 21, in Bennington, VT.
Above: Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard – Click for a larger view
Above: Photograph by Neil Rappaport – Click for a larger view
Ralph Eugene Meatyard Links:
Bennington Museum Panel Discussion about Neil Rappaport:
Oct 10 2006
The order in which we see images changes how we perceive them. In this episode, we look at how sequencing photographs can take one set of images and change the message they convey.
Sequence 1 – Click Image for a larger view
photographs by Jeff Curto
Sequence 1 – Click Image for a larger view
photographs by Jeff Curto
Oct 02 2006
This brief “Thirty-Three-and-a-Third” epsisode of camera position is just a quick “pointer” to my guest-host appearance on Chris Marquardt’s “Tips From The Top Floor” podcast. I hope you’ll check it out.
Click my “Liguria, 2003″ image above for a larger view.
