12 episodes

Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These short 2-4 minute talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 35 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work and building an audience. Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork has subscribers in over 73 countries. His latest books are "The Creative Life in Photography" (2013) and "Looking at Images (2014).

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process Brooks Jensen

    • Arts
    • 4.6 • 338 Ratings

Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These short 2-4 minute talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 35 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work and building an audience. Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork has subscribers in over 73 countries. His latest books are "The Creative Life in Photography" (2013) and "Looking at Images (2014).

    HT1482 - Photograph as Conclusion

    HT1482 - Photograph as Conclusion

    An interesting way to think about photographs is to perceive them as the conclusion of all the events that led up to the moment of photography, or as a beginning that will serve as a starting point for some as yet unknown destination.

    • 2 min
    HT1481 - Photography and Idealism

    HT1481 - Photography and Idealism

    We do not live in a perfect world, but if your only knowledge of life here on earth were from landscape photographs, you would naturally conclude that this is a perfect world. Or, it's opposite. So much of photography is either pro idealism or anti-idealism.

    • 2 min
    HT1480 - When Realism Isn't Real

    HT1480 - When Realism Isn't Real

    I visited Yosemite for the first time in 1983 expecting to find there the landscapes I had become so familiar with through the photography of Ansel Adams. That was my first experience in which I discovered that the realism school of f/64 photography was anything but realistic.

    • 2 min
    HT1479 - Mortensen Had a Point

    HT1479 - Mortensen Had a Point

    In books on the history of photography, there is no doubt that the quintessential outcast is William Mortensen. He represented a kind of photography that the f/64 group rebelled against most vigorously. But Mortenson had a point, and one that we should not ignore.

    • 2 min
    HT1478 - Soft Blacks and the Printed Book

    HT1478 - Soft Blacks and the Printed Book

    Not all blacks are black. There's some photographic media, for example platinum palladium prints, but have a soft black. Reproducing these tones in a printed book always present a unique challenge.

    • 2 min
    HT1477 - 9 to 1

    HT1477 - 9 to 1

    There's an old rule of thumb in video editing that for every 1 minute of finished video requires 9 minutes of editing and production. I'm not sure what the ratio is for still photography, but it's probably at least 9 to 1.

    • 2 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
338 Ratings

338 Ratings

Jarhead0369 ,

Well worth your time.

Many photography podcasts go for too long, this is well-done and concise.

VJWild ,

Quick powerful bits of wisdom

I’ve had this podcast on my feed for a few months now and only recently did I start listening. Big mistake!! I should’ve been listening WAY sooner. The episodes are meditative and make the lightbulb above my head flick on. Highly recommended for creatives of any medium!!

Christen Humphries ,

Thoughtful analysis of creativity

Daily musings on the creative process, and my new favorite podcast for artists.

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