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The Art of Photography

Nick Brandt

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

Diy, Art, Arts, Visual Arts, Image, Technology, Photography, Tv & Film, Culture, Tutorials, Gadgets, Photographers

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Nick Brandt is one of the more important photographers working in fine art today. His entire cause and mission is wrapped around stopping the rampant poaching problem in East Africa. Nick photographs animals as portraits. He doesn't use telephoto lenses as he prefers to photograph his subjects as one would people. This is a painstaking practice that involves extreme patience and dedication and this shows clearly in the work he produces. Brandt works in a hybrid film and digital process. He photographs using film on a Pentax 67 camera with modified lens (creating a soft focus, tilt-shift effect). The film is scanned and toned in the computer before the works are rendered as digital prints. Nick Brandt: http://www.nickbrandt.com/ Big Life Foundation: https://biglife.org/ On This Earth: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811848655/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0811848655&linkCode=as2&tag=thepublbroa-20&linkId=7ODTGENWWADT7WPN A Shadow Falls: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081095415X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=081095415X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepublbroa-20&linkId=YPCSRYUC2VJBSTX3 Across the Ravaged Land: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419709453/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1419709453&linkCode=as2&tag=thepublbroa-20&linkId=7D3FGH3YQ4FFUMQS This episode is sponsored by Squarespace. For a free trial and 10% off, visit http://squarespace.com and use offer code AOP on checkout. Subscribe for more videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theartofphotography Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv Watch More Episodes: Saul Leiter :: Early Black and White https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijI4u19eufQ Chris McCaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfHlfEeztIU Michael Kenna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebLFDqAZuw And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved! So come check it out! If you’re a fan of DigitalRev, Fro Knows Photo (Jared Polin), Matt Grainger (That Nikon Guy) or Tony Northrup - you’ll love The Art of Photography. I make video’s giving you a deeper dive into photography techniques, composition and history to compliment the other channels you love to watch. New shows come out every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, Ted Forbes.

0:01.2

Welcome back to the art of photography.

0:02.9

In this video I want to share with you

0:04.6

the work of one of my favorite contemporary

0:06.4

photographers living today.

0:07.5

And I'm speaking of Nick Brandt.

0:09.1

Nick was born in the UK.

0:10.4

Today he lives in Los Angeles,

0:11.9

and he had a brief career in the early 90s as a music

0:14.8

video director and I'll talk about all this in a second but I think he is

0:18.5

absolutely phenomenal and does some very stunning work mainly with wildlife in East Africa and dealing also with some

0:26.0

activism surrounding the poaching situation that's going on there. So I think the

0:29.8

best thing to do is go look at some images so without further do this is the work of Nick

0:33.6

Brant. About 10 years ago I was at a store one day shopping for a gift for my

0:37.9

mother called World Market which is not a bookstore anyway this book was on the

0:41.5

shelf and had several copies and I pulled it down, thumbed through it, and was just stunned and amazed by these wonderful pictures of African wildlife and had no idea who Nick Brandt was, bought the book, took it home, did further research, and Nick

0:54.0

Brant is an incredible photographer who has a very special cause that's very dear to his heart.

0:58.8

This is the first book of a series of three, there's a trilogy of these, and the first one is called on this earth the second is called

1:04.8

a shadow falls and then the third across the ravaged land so when you read all the

1:09.1

titles together it makes more sense on this earth as Shadow Falls across the

1:13.0

Ravage Land. And Nick Brant is a fairly young

1:16.1

photographer. I think he's in his late 40s right now and he is

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