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 has subscribers in over 73 countries. His latest books are "The Creative Life in Photography" (2013) and "Looking at Images (2014).
- Website
- http://www.lenswork.com/
- Description
- <P>Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. <EM>LensWork</EM> editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 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. </P> <P>Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork Podcasts — posted weekly, typically 10-20 minutes exploring a topic a bit more deeply — and our almost daily <EM>Here's a thought…</EM> audios (extracted from the videos.) <EM>Here's a thought…</EM> are snippets, fragments, morsels, and tidbits from Brooks' fertile (and sometimes swiss-cheesy) brain. Usually just a minute or two. Always about photography and the art life.</P> <P>Brooks Jensen is the publisher of <EM>LensWork</EM>, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. <EM>LensWork</EM> has subscribers in over 73 countries. He is the author of 13 books on photography and the creative life -- the latest books are <EM>The Best of the LensWork Interviews</EM> (2016), <EM>Photography, Art, and Media</EM> (2016), and the four annual volumes of <EM>Seeing in SIXES</EM> (2016-2019).</P>
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-22 20:31
- last episode published
- 2024-04-22 00:00
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- 0.9 days
- Contributors
- Brooks Jensen
- Author
- LensWork Publishing
- Managing editor Owner
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- Number of Episodes
- 927
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Episodes
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| 2024-04-22 | LW1398 - Life, As Lived When you decide you want to make a photograph of this particular thing, why is that thing chosen over all others? What is it in that thing that makes it more photogenic than all others? I've thought about this a great deal late... |
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| 2024-04-22 | HT1875 - Question or Statement The common perception of a photograph is that it is a fact. Even a fanciful, imagine-based photograph is a statement of how the photographer sees the world. But what doors to creativity are opened if we change that persp... |
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| 2024-04-21 | HT1874 - Composing Using Focus Tracking Here is a slick focusing technique I never thought of, but it works. It replaces the half-press and hold, then compose technique. It's much more intuitive in my brain than back button focusing. It uses "focus tr... |
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| 2024-04-20 | HT1873 - Maximum Black Is Not Magic In my youth, I thought the magic was to achieve a maximum black. It took me several years to learn that the magic is not in maximum black but rather in beautiful gray tones and chords of tones that please the eye. I... |
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| 2024-04-19 | HT1872 - Print Size and the Wall Once Stieglitz decided that photography was best consumed as art on the wall, like painting, he set in motion the pursuit of large prints. If it weren't for our predisposition to exhibit photographs on the wall, I wond... |
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| 2024-04-18 | HT1871 - The Competition for Eyeballs All media include an element of narcissism. With every photograph we make, we are essentially competing for attention. Each photograph screams, "Look at me!" This intense competition for eyeballs leads to a second... |
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| 2024-04-16 | HT1869 - Artwork Left Behind I remember years ago hearing of a photographer who would leave small prints wherever he happened to find himself. He would leave his artwork on a bus bench, a restaurant table, a seat in the library, literally anywhere the... |
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| 2024-04-15 | LW1397 - Looking for Photographs When you want to make a photograph, what do you do? Probably you set out into the world somewhere and start looking for things you might photograph. You are on the hunt for potential. What if you were to point yourself... |
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| 2024-04-15 | HT1868 - The Absolutely Necessary The ideal kit includes everything I might need. The opposite of how much gear can I take is how little gear can I get by with. Perhaps it's a function of my aging knees and back, but I find myself brainstorming about ... |
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| 2024-04-14 | HT1867 - Feedback and the Pressure to Conform Yesterday I was talking about feedback and the way the digital workflow makes getting feedback about our work so much easier. Not unexpectedly, there is a downside to such easy feedback; the pressure to co... |
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