Camera Position 65 : What Are You Lookin’ At? How do you Know?




Jeff Curto's Camera Position show

Summary: Photography is about doing, but it’s also about thinking… looking, seeing, appreciating. It’s possible to learn more about photography just by doing it, but it’s a lot easier when you pay attention to how others do it. This episode of Camera Position discusses the ideas of connoisseurship; the art of how we come to know what’s good. Looking at, studying and collecting photographs that you love is a part of learning photography.<br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/biscuitlady.jpg"></a><br> <a title="Site about Marion Post Wolcott" href="http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/virtual/hard_times/marion_post/" target="_blank">Marion Post-Wolcott</a> – Biscuit lady, a member of Wilkins family making biscuits on corn-husking day, North Carolina, 1939<br> Links for this episode:<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/photo" target="_blank">Art Institute of Chicago – Photography Department</a><br> * <a href="http://www.mocp.org/" target="_blank">Museum of Contemporary Photography – Chicago</a><br> <br>