Camera Position 62 : Is Beauty Enough?

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.

Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, 2007
Photograph by Jeff Curto
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Links for this Episode:

* Robert Adams’ Beauty in Photography @ Amazon.com
* Alec Soth’s contemporary “landscape” photography
* Derek Henderson’s The Terrible Boredom of Paradise

* Camera Position #49 – “Know Thy Subject”

* Terry Bowyer’s comment
* Jeff’s response to Terry


* Ted Byrne’s essay in response to this podcast at his Imagefiction blog