Photography Hot Takes - Photography is Nothing with Zach Dobson & Courtney McCracken

Episode 26 - Photographers are a passionate bunch and always have hot takes about our beliefs and convictions surrounding our art. And this goes all the way to the beginning of photography with the original hot take: Is photography art?

Zach and Courtney discuss some of the biggest hot takes throughout the history of photography.

In this episode we talk about current & historical photography hot takes like…

• Photography isn’t art
• Photography should only reflect reality
• Color photography isn’t art
• Film is better than digital
• Plus Zach & Courtney give their own personal photography hot takes.

“Photography is nothing–it's life that interests me.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson 

Index

0:00 - They said my high school photography was better

0:48 - Photography hot takes: past & present

1:40 - When should photographers volunteer their time

5:21 - Photography is not art

7:11 - Henry Peach Robinson wrote the book on Pictorialism

12:44 - Eugene Atget showed how documentary photography could be art

17:01 - Edward Steichen - The Flatiron (1904)

18:09 - Ansel Adams hated pictorialism

20:03 - f64 was a group of photographers advocating for realism

26:00 - Color photography is vulgar

27:03 - Don’t colorize black & white photos

34:10 - Film is better than digital

40:14 - Street photography hot take: wait to share your photos

43:38 - Zach says photographers are content creators

51:11 - Courtney cares who is behind the camera

54:46 - The internet preferred Zach’s high school photography

Find Zach

Website: https://zachdobson.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zachdobsonphoto/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zachdobsonphoto

Threads: https://www.threads.com/@zachdobsonphoto

Find Courtney

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtneymccracken_/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@happy_life_lessons

Threads: https://www.threads.com/@courtneymccracken_

About the Podcast

Photography is Nothing with Zach Dobson and Courtney McCracken is a weekly conversation about photography and all its impact. Each week Zach and Courtney discuss their latest adventures, life lessons, and anything else that sounds interesting. 

Photography is Nothing invites you into the conversations they were already having as a married couple running a photography and media company in the current world.

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