Jessica Todd Harper on Beauty, Family, and Photography

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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When everyone is carrying a camera in their pocket, what raises the act of taking pictures to the level of fine art photography? Jessica Todd Harper, the award-winning portrait photographer, says that it's equal parts mindset and technique--and lots of setting the stage to seize that perfect light. Listen as Harper speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her desire to capture the complexity of life in a single image, why family relationships and home life are her chosen subjects, and the integral role beauty plays in her images, despite its diminished status in art today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is May 5, 2022 and my guest is fine art photographer Jessica Todd Harper.
0:43.8	Before starting today's episode, you may want to visit our website, Jessica.harper.com.
0:47.8	And look at summer for fine art photographs.
0:50.0	I want to thank Plantronics for providing the Blackwire 5220 headset.
0:55.2	Jessica was a national portrait gallery out when Buchiver 2016 prize winner, probably
0:59.9	butchered that name.
1:01.3	Her work was included in the 2016 Taylor Weston portrait competition at the National
1:05.9	Portrait Gallery in London and her work will be featured in Kinship, which is a show
1:10.5	due to Ron at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery from 2022 to 2024.
1:16.7	She has published three books of her photographs, Interior Exposure, The Home Stage and her
1:21.4	latest with the title here in the introduction of that book, The Painter Bob Artlet writes
1:26.6	about Jessica's work.
1:28.8	Her photographs often capture private moments, most of close family, seeming slices of life
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