Episode · EconTalk · 2022-11-07
Russ Roberts & Jessica Todd Harper: books mentioned on EconTalk
Jessica Todd Harper on Beauty, Family, and Photography
When everyone is carrying a camera in their pocket, what raises the act of taking pictures to the level of fine art photography? Jessica Todd Harper, the award-winning portrait photographer, says that it's equal parts mindset and technique--and lots of setting the stage to seize that perfect light.
Jessica Todd Harper discussed The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot. Russ Roberts discussed All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Pencil of Nature
Discussed“when he presented his work which he called pencil of nature he was talking about it from a scientific point of view look look at the utility of this invention and he showed how photography could be used to inventory his glassware collection or to make a copy of some of his rare manuscripts”
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All Joy and No Fun
All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior is an insightful, hilarious, and deeply researched exploration of modern parenting that examines how children profoundly reshape the emotional, social, and economic lives of their parents.
Discussed“and New York Magazine ran a cover story um that coincided with a book by Jennifer Senior called all joy and no fun and it used my photographs to illustrate the story”
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