#28: “Ability to Recognize…Maybe”

How do we know when art ‘works’ or doesn’t? Is it intuition or knowledge? Bill and Jeffery also tackle some listener mail about b/w conversion, hype in the art world, and a rebuttal of a listener who thinks Bill is a little too cranky. Master portraitist Irving Penn is this week’s photographer.

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Show Notes
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Art Hype with Robert Hughes on youTube
Bill’s Portraits – Party and Keys
Damon Winters story and pictures of Obama campaign
Stray Light Grey Exhibit Photos

[PHOTOGRAPHER of the WEEK] Irving Penn
Irving Penn Spotlight on Faded and Blurred
NY Times Obituary of Irving Penn
Museum of Contemporary Photography

Related Books on Amazon
Irving Penn: Master Images (The Collection of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery)
Irving Penn: Small Trades
Irving Penn Portraits