All posts by Jeff Curto

Camera position 208 : Bringing Ourselves to the Photograph

By slowing down as we look at photographs – ours or someone else’s – we can more easily bring ourselves to the photograph, and by doing that, learn more about the medium and ourselves.

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Life Saving Museum, Eagle Harbor, MI
Life Saving Museum, Eagle Harbor, MI
Snow Drift, Eagle Harbor, MI
Snow Drift, Eagle Harbor, MI

A couple of images from my winter in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Camera Position 207 : On Warming Up

Musicians warm up before they make music, but what about visual artists? Do photographers need to warm up before they create photographs? I think yes, and with the help of a podcast listener, we posit some ideas for getting warmed up visually.

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Rainy Day - Arezzo, Tuscany - Photograph by Jeff Curto
Rainy Day – Arezzo, Tuscany – Photograph by Jeff Curto
Rainy Day - Arezzo, Tuscany - Photograph by Jeff Curto
Rainy Day – Arezzo, Tuscany – Photograph by Jeff CurtoRain – Arezzo, Tuscany
Rainy Day - Arezzo, Tuscany - Photograph by Jeff Curto
Rainy Day – Arezzo, Tuscany – Photograph by Jeff Curto

Camera Position 206 : The Artful Life

Some thoughts on living an artful life, led off by poet Mary Oliver’s “Instructions on Living a Life”
Pay attention
Be Astonished
Tell about it.

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  • Mary Oliver– The American poet at the Poetry Foundation
  • Twyla Tharp – a brief video of some of Tharp’s choreography
  • Samuel Beckett – Some information about the poet & playwright
  • Pablo Picasso – A collection of paintings, quotes and a bio
Summer Cloud, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 2018?Photograph by Jeff Curto
Summer Cloud, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 2018 – Photograph by Jeff Curto

Camera Position 205 : Your Life Is Your Art

Rather than trying to make art your life, work instead on trying to make every day of your life into art.

“You just have to live and life will give you pictures.”
-Henri Cartier Bresson

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Birch & Sun, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 2018 - Photograph by Jeff Curto
Birch & Sun, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 2018 – Photograph by Jeff Curto

Camera Position 204 : Always A Reward

The act of making photographs connects me to the world, to my medium and to myself. When I make photographs, there is always a reward.

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Sun, Pines and Water - Lake Superior, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 2018
Sun, Pines and Water – Lake Superior, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, 2018