J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Brea Souders

Episode #33 Summary

A fluid and expansive book of purposeful exploration into form, materiality and limitlessness of the photographic medium.

Episode Notes 

A master weaver intersecting the past with the future, Brea Souders constructs visual analogies that expose the layered intermediaries of communication. Positing centuries-old existential questions, Souders discovers her own lexicon, creating a language built on correlation, random chance and fleeting reaction.  

In this book group, Brea Souders, discusses, among other things:

  • How we experience images now

  • Establishing an economy of means in image-making

  • Allowing other viewpoints to influence your creative decisions

  • Accidential observation

  • Science influencing art by experimenting with an objective

  • Being in dialog with your work

  • The creative limbo when between bodies of work

  • The fluid intersections of analogy and digital processes

  • The iPhone as sketchbook

Referenced in the episode

Google Photo Sphere

Millay Colony of the Arts

Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photo by Kim Beil

Photography is Magic by Charlotte Cotton

Ina Jang

Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Rachel de Joode

Blow Up


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