Podcast #23: Richard Benson and Jay Maisel

"My background in relation to photography is to think about taking pictures apart, and assembling pictures in multiple steps or multiple layers, and that's the kind of thinking I've applied to this." - Richard Benson "The thing that's important is that the picture shows me where the picture can go as I'm making it. That's what's interesting." - Richard Benson This "video" podcast includes photos taken by Richard, as well as photos documenting the occasion taken by both myself and by Thomas Palmer. It can be viewed by downloading it directly into iTunes (if you are accessing it by subscribing via the Music Store), or by copying it into iTunes on either a Mac or a PC (if you've downloaded it from my iDisk). Once copied into iTunes, it can be transferred to a Video iPod, and viewed that way as well. When viewing it on an iPod, be sure to access the video from the Video menu (then "Movies" or "Video Podcasts".... depending upon how you downloaded it), and NOT from the Music menu. If you access it from the Music menu, you will not see the photographs. Finally, it's likely that only the audio track will be heard on devices other than Apple iPods, and the photographs will not be seen. "The thing a painter does is fundamentally different than what a photographer does. A painter goes and puts a mark somewhere, and looks at what the mark has done, and that tells the painter what the next mark should be. And that's what Thomas and I had been doing printing. We had been putting down a layer, and that told us what the next layer could be. And I was interested in doing that with my own photographs in color. So I ended up making color pictures in acrylic from 8 or 10 separations and 40 or 50 layers." - Richard Benson The views and opinions of the participants in this podcast are their own, and do not reflect or represent those of Adobe Systems.