Camera Position 62 : Is Beauty Enough?




Jeff Curto's Camera Position show

Summary: Is beauty enough in a photograph? It’s an odd concept in photography, especially in today’s visual world where so many photographers seem to ignore it. Or… are they ignoring it? We take a look.<br> <a title="Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, 2007" href="https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/curtosantostefano.jpg" target="_blank"></a> <a title="Robert Adams - Beauty in Photography @ Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRobert-Adams-Beauty-Photography%2Fdp%2F0893813680&amp;tag=camerposit-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" target="_blank"></a><br> Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, 2007<br> Photograph by Jeff Curto<br> (click to enlarge)<br> Links for this Episode:<br> <br> * <a title="See this book on Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRobert-Adams-Beauty-Photography%2Fdp%2F0893813680&amp;tag=camerposit-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" target="_blank">Robert Adams’ Beauty in Photography @ Amazon.com </a><br> * <a title="Visit Alec Soth's website" href="http://www.alecsoth.com" target="_blank">Alec Soth’s contemporary “landscape” photography </a><br> * <a title="Visit Derek Henderson's website" href="http://www.derekhenderson.net/paradise/paradise.html" target="_blank">Derek Henderson’s The Terrible Boredom of Paradise<br> </a><br> * <a href="http://www.cameraposition.com/archives/91" target="_blank">Camera Position #49 – “Know Thy Subject”</a><br> <br> * <a href="http://www.cameraposition.com/archives/91#comment-2011" target="_blank">Terry Bowyer’s comment</a><br> * <a href="http://www.cameraposition.com/archives/91#comment-2412" target="_blank">Jeff’s response to Terry</a><br> <br> <br> * Ted Byrne’s <a href="http://imagefiction.blogspot.com/2008/03/wow.html" target="_blank">essay</a> in response to this podcast at his Imagefiction blog<br> <br>