Gallery Contract

Sign a contract with anyone who exhibits your artwork. Putting verbal agreements in writing produces something tangible that all parties can refer to if memory fails – and it will. You and your representatives need a contract to work professionally together. If someone is unwilling...

Ansel Adams iPad App

The world of ebooks is maturing rapidly. Recently an iPad App entitled Ansel Adams was released. It contains … – 40 images (which can be viewed either with or without commentary) – 3 videos (one includes Adams playing piano) – 1 interview (Playboy magazine) –...

Exhibit – Santiago Vanegas

Hagedorn Foundation Gallery presents, “People & Nature” Photographed at the iconic Stone Mountain, Santiago Vanegas produces a body of work unlike anything he’s done before over twelve year long career. In this series, he explores the intriguing and sometimes odd relationship between people & nature....

View Camera – Paul Caponigro

The latest issue of View Camera Magazine features my father, Paul Caponigro with a special portfolio of unpublished work from 1959-2009. 64 pages of images with inspiring and insightful text. “The eminent designer Eleanor Morris Caponigro has established a pace and rhythm here that allows...

Seek Feedback

One of the most valuable aspects of a workshop is getting feedback on your work. You get it from a respected authority. You also get if from diverse participants. The combination of both is powerful. You’ll see your work more clearly, see it through others...

World Without Photoshop App

“Now 20 years old, Adobe® Photoshop® software has changed image editing forever. Can you imagine a world without Photoshop? In these twelve chapters you can see for yourself what some of the best digital artists work looks like without the software. Then with the touch...

Debating Modern Photography – Triumph of Group f/64

In the 1930s, a small group of California photographers challenged the painterly, soft-focus Pictorialist style of the day. They argued that photography could only advance as an art if its practitioners exploited characteristics inherent to the camera’s mechanical nature. This small association of innovators created...

Continuity

Continuity. Every screenwriter needs to create it. Every storyboard needs to interpret it. Every director needs to guide it. Every editor needs to refine it. If you’re a still photographer, you may be called to do all of these things. Continuity lies at the heart...

Art Of Substance & Absence – Alwar Balasubramaniam:

Alwar Balasubramaniam’s sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective: four tricky sensations that can reveal — or conceal — what’s really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his extraordinary installations. Find more of my favorite TED videos here.

Engage Your Inner Coach

“If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.” – Carla Gordon We’re told that to improve and reach our full potential that we have to be our own worst critics. There is...