Everyday Photography, Every Day

A conversation that will change the way you think about your pictures.

About the show

Everyday Photography (Every Day)" is a weekly podcast where you get to listen in on a chat between a photographer (Rubin) and a regular human (Suzanne Fritz-Hanson) with an eye on making your pictures amazing and helping you enjoy your photography more. No technical stuff. No talk of gear or software. Just photography for the fun of it.

  • Rubin brings a unique perspective to consumer media: a student of Jerry Uelsmann; an amateur photographer for 40 years; formerly of Lucasfilm, Netflix and Adobe; director of The Rubin Collection of Photography; and founder of Neomodern, he's long been passionate about advancing the language of photography.

** Enjoy show notes at www.neomodern.com/podcast

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Episodes

  • 13: Artists, Amateurs and Pros

    14 October 2018  |  16 mins 29 secs

    Most people looking for info on photography are wanting to turn their hobby into a career as either a commercial photographer or an artist. But what of people who just want to be better photographers?

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    12: One Print Only

    12 October 2018  |  20 mins 11 secs

    A little more about the physicality of prints, of radical editioning, and the Suzanne's wedding dress made of paper.

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    11: Why Make Prints (part 2) - "It's not photography if you don't print it"

    11 October 2018  |  21 mins 52 secs

    Photography isn't just about taking pictures, but the all-important work of selecting which pictures to keep and show.

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    10: Get the Cliché Out of the Way

    10 October 2018  |  19 mins 35 secs

    What to shoot? And how to approach shooting a subject?

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    9: Why Make Prints (part 1)

    10 October 2018  |  16 mins 11 secs

    The differences between photography and shooting video? And why is printing important? Rubin and Suzanne begin to dig into the issues around digital images.

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    8: The Photograph that got me into Brown

    3 October 2018  |  10 mins 42 secs

    Rubin's 15 minutes of fame surrounded his noteworthy application to Brown University in 1980... and the photograph that got him accepted.

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    7: The Rubin Collection and Modernism

    3 October 2018  |  17 mins 54 secs
    art, collecting, modernism, neomodernism

    How the Rubin Collection of photography came into existence and why it is being displayed at NEOMODERN in San Francisco.

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    6: Natural Light, or "If you can see it, you can photograph it"

    2 October 2018  |  12 mins 36 secs

    How do you shoot in sub-optimal lighting situations -- at night, by candlelight, in darkened rooms? What's so good about natural light?

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    5: Privacy, Intimacy, and Law

    1 October 2018  |  13 mins 22 secs
    intimacy, law, privacy

    While it's legal to take pictures of people in public places, it's frequently inappropriate. In this episode we discuss issues of privacy and the inherent intimacy involved in taking someone's photo.

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    4: Documenting your Life - Small Moments vs. Big Moments

    27 September 2018  |  10 mins 34 secs

    In the process of documenting your life, there are often decisions to be made between shooting and putting your camera down. Today we discuss "large moments" vs. "small moments" and what they mean to you.

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    3: Don't Shoot Everything - Introduction to "Synecdoche" and "Haiku"

    26 September 2018  |  12 mins 58 secs
    constraints, finest, haiku, synecdoche

    Everyone now walks around with a great camera all the time: our phones. But what is photography for and how do i manage this amazing device?

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    2: What's the Deal with B&W Photography?

    25 September 2018  |  13 mins 16 secs
    bnw, monochromatic

    Why make pictures black-and-white? Is it just to look "arty" or nostalgic?

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    1: Composition on the Fly

    24 September 2018  |  11 mins 52 secs
    composition

    Is there a trick to learning to compose great photos?