This week, Happy Anniversary to us! We talk a bit about four years of On Taking Pictures, which leads to a discussion on the value of output. There’s the idea of getting better with practice, which we’ve talked about several times, but also the value of the body of work as an object, independent of anything else. We also talk about meanings we associate to objects and share a wonderful email from a listener called “The Mythology of Things” in which he works through some reasons that objects become more to us than their component parts. Also, is the Photo Renaissance over or are we in a New Golden Age of photography? Former Baltimore Sun photographer A. Aubrey Bodine is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• How Ridiculous - YouTube
  
• Cardboard Junkie: Virtual 1982 Topps Sticker Album - Front cover and page 1
  
• Titanic sinks in REAL TIME - 2 HOURS 40 MINUTES - YouTube
  
• George Hurrell photos and prints
  
• Crit Wall : Sahidus Maximus
  
• Crit Wall : Lance Harshbarger
  
• A. Aubrey Bodine - Baltimore Pictorialist
  
• The photos of A. Aubrey Bodine - Baltimore Sun
  
• Bodine’s Industry: ‘The Dignity of Work’ by A. Aubrey Bodine
  
• A. Aubrey Bodine: Baltimore Sun pictorialist
  
• Bodine - Man Blowing Glass
  
• Aubrey Bodine books on Amazon
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #cycles
  

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