Jeff Curto's Camera Position
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Camera Position 16 : The Game Of Inches
06 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, photography is the proverbial "game of inches."
Camera Position 15 : Moving Camera Position & Moving Your Boundaries
29 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve moved my Camera Position! I’ve abandoned Apple’s “easy but limited” iWeb software and moved over to a WordPress blog. Hopefully, the ma...
Camera Position 14 : Strand’s “Family” Revisited
22 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In Camera Position #8, we looked at Paul Strand’s “The Family, Luzzara, Italy, 1953”. Listener Don Bricker wrote in to note that there are, in f...
Camera Position 13 : Time and the Subject
16 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Photographers sometimes have a hard time separating their own emotional response they have to a subject from the image that they make of that subject....
Camera Position 12 : Motivation and Inspiration
10 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we do what we do as photographers? Where does our motivation come from? Why do some subjects interest us more than others? Episode number 12 of...
Camera Position 11 : Weston and the Other 29
30 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
It took Edward Weston 29 prior attempts to get to the point where he made his well-known “Pepper #30” photograph. Musicians have to practice their...
Camera Position 10 : A Story Without Words
23 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Photographers have to be aware of the fact that viewers of their images can’t know the whole story of how a photograph came to be. The image has to ...
Camera Position 09 : Composition and Idea
15 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
The idea you want to communicate in a photograph is in direct relation to the way in which you choose to make that photograph. A photograph of Bernini...
Camera Position 08 : Strand’s “The Family”
10 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Strand’s masterful 1953 portrait “The Family” acts as a backdrop for some thoughts on how interaction between the photographer and subject ...
Camera Position 07 : Light, Idea and Emotion
03 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Ultimately, a photograph comes down to a common element: Light. Using two photographs of a vineyard, this podcast explores the quality, direction and ...
Camera Position 06 : Left, Right, Up, Down
23 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Eugene Atget’s photograph of conical shrubs in Saint Cloud provides the visual resource for a discussion of how careful camera placement can affect ...
Camera Position 05 : Movement and Time
18 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
With a photograph of pecore (sheep) as an example, Camera Position #5 examines the way movement and time affect a photographic image. In many ways, ev...
Camera Position 04 : Patience and Seeing
11 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Using a photograph of Venice, Camera Position #4 explores the idea of how sometimes what you think you want in a photograph isn’t the most interesti...
Camera Position 03 : Paul Caponigro’s Two Leaves
08 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Camera Position #3 features a discussion about one of my all-time favorite photographs by one of my all-time favorite photographers, Paul Caponigro. T...
Camera Position 02 : Light in Montepulciano
07 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Camera Position #2 is about a photograph I made in 1997 of the Tempio di San Biagio, a beautiful Renaissance church just outside the walls of the Tusc...
Camera Position 01 : An Introduction through an Italian window
05 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This introductory podcast explains what I want to try to accomplish with this Camera Position and what I will be talking about as the shows progress. ...