Another exploration of color in photography and the way it has been used by two of the great masters of color, WIlliam Eggleston and Stephen Shore. Also, I mention Adobe’s fabulously fun and useful online application “Kuler.”

Photograph by William Eggleston (above)

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Photograph by Stephen Shore (below)

Links for this episode:

• Kuler – Adobe’s online color playground
• William Eggleston at Masters of Photography – John Szarkowski Essay about Eggleston
• William Eggleston on Artsy
• Stephen Shore at Masters of Photography – Heinz Liesbrock Essay about Shore

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I’m back! After a month-long hiatus, I’m back with a podcast about color. Using a Christmas present of a book of Pete Turner’s photographs that have been used on jazz album covers as a springboard, we talk about color, color relationships and how color works in the photographic world.

Links for this episode:

• Pete Turner’s The Color of Jazz Book at Amazon
• Wikipedia’s Color Theory Entry
• Kuler, Adobe’s very cool color playground

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Lens choice, tripods, negative and positive space, image sequence and selection of a small group of images… it’s a “holiday leftovers ” group of ideas and thoughts for this episode of Camera Position.

Above photographs by Jeff Curto

Links for this episode:

• Images referenced in this episode of Camera Position
• Ralph Gibson’s Website
• College of DuPage’s Gahlberg Gallery

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Mission statements don’t have to be about dull, corporate stuff… they can also be about the creative process and act as a compass to point you in the right direction. Your photographic mission statement can be about your audience, your passions and your goals.

Example and blank “audience circles” (click for larger images)

Links relevent for this show:

The Candid Frame: Ibarionex Perillo’s excellent podcast interviews with photographers
Jeff’s Video Projects: The videos mentioned in this episode
LensWork Magazine: Jeff’s videos are in issue #67. The advantage of distribution on CD-ROM is that the movies are at a much higher resolution (640×480 pixels) than is practical via the web.

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It’s about time. It’s about time to talk about time in photography and time as it relates to how photographs function. Using photographs by Garry Winogrand and Tokihiro Sato, we examine two different approaches to dealing with time in the photograph.

Photographs by Garry Winogrand (left) and Tokihiro Sato (right)
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• Garry Winogrand @ Masters of Photography
• Tokihiro Sato @ PhotoArts

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