Is beauty enough in a photograph? It’s an odd concept in photography, especially in today’s visual world where so many photographers seem to ignore it. Or… are they ignoring it? We take a look.

Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, 2007
Photograph by Jeff Curto
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Links for this Episode:

• Robert Adams’ Beauty in Photography @ Amazon.com
• Alec Soth’s contemporary “landscape” photography
• Derek Henderson’s The Terrible Boredom of Paradise
  
• Camera Position #49 – “Know Thy Subject”
  • Terry Bowyer’s comment
  • Jeff’s response to Terry
• Ted Byrne’s essay in response to this podcast at his Imagefiction blog

 

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