Artist Talk — Jessica Todd Harper

Episode Summary

Jessica Todd Harper uses photography to capture the poetic beauty of everyday life within a contemporary family.

In this conversation, Jessica discusses, among other things:

  • Mining family narratives

  • Focusing on what's in front of you

  • Working with light

  • The influence of teachers

  • Wrestling with the materiality of now

  • Transcending the ordinary

  • Photojournalism vs art

  • One ‘good’ photo a month

  • Life fitting into photography

Artist Resources/Inspiration

Interior Exposure by Jessica Todd Harper and Sarah McNear

The Home Stage by Jessica Todd Harper

Centre Claude Cahun

Rick Wester Fine Art

Kinship, The National Portrait Gallery

Bo Barlett at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Mothercraft, Toni Pepe

Undo Motherhood by Diana Karklin

Designing Motherhood

Hettie Judah

Malcolm Gladwell

Johannes Vermeer

Mary Cassatt

Arnold Newman

Larry Fink

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Maine Media Photography Workshops

The Mount, Edith Wharton

The Clark Institute

Published by Damiani Editore


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