19 Quotes By Photographer Edward Steichen

Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Edward Steichen. “No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.” – Edward Steichen “I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself…” – Edward Steichen “Art for art’s sake is dead, if it ever...

18 Quotes By Photographer Michael Kenna

  Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Michael Kenna. “I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don’t think it’s necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as a vessel for visual material to flow through, to encourage...

15 Quotes By Photographer Emmet Gowin

  Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Emmet Gowin. “Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.” – Emmet Gowin “All important pictures embody something that we...

Alumnus Olaf Willoughby – Collaboration Workshop

“Actors on a Stage” It was a lightbulb moment. The ship chugged and crunched its way through pack ice. The excited babble of the photographers fell to an awestruck silence as we passed one of Antarctica’s most inspiring sights, an iceberg the size of an...

12 Quotes By Photographer John Pfahl

  Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer John Pfahl. “People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.” – John...

Alumnus Sam Krisch – The Creative Curator

Image courtesy of Taubman Museum This is a guest post by Sam Krisch, a John Paul Caponigro Next Step Alumnus who lives and works in Roanoke, Virginia. He has curated an exhibition entitled Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro: Generations which will be showing at...

40 Quotes On Perfection

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on perfection. “They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.” – Winston Churchill “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”...

Alumnus Andy Batt's New Book Camera & Craft

Congratulations! Alumni Andy Batt’s new book Camera & Craft was voted one of the best photo books of 2014 by photo.net! (Yes. Many of my alumni are or become working pros.) “An instructional photography book at heart, Camera & Craft is refreshingly conversational. It does dive into the...

47 Quotes By Photographer Chuck Close

  Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes by artist Chuck Close. “I don’t work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.” – Chuck Close “Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it’s...

See Color In New Ways With Photoshop’s Gradient Maps

– Whether used subtly or dramatically, Photoshop’s Gradient Map color adjustment tool can open up new ways of seeing and working with color for any artist. Photoshop’s Gradient Map assigns new colors to existing brightness values. With it, you can enhance existing colors, transfer colors...