TCF Ep. 290 - Michelle Rick

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

There are different stories about what leads a person to pick up a camera to do more than just making snapshots. Some of these stories begin high school course, or when they have their first child or when they look at somebody else’s work and think to themselves, “I could do that”. For this week’s guest Michelle Rick, her decision to begin practicing photography came from frustrations with another art form, writing. She had always considered herself a storyteller and had earned an MFA in creative writing at the New School, but when she struggled to make the transition for writing short stories to a novel, she struggled. She soon found an outlet for frustration and anxiety with a camera. Within a short time, she found herself exploring her creativity on the streets of New York. Within a short period of time, she has become adept at using light, color and the theater of the street to make beautiful photographs of the city that she loves. She is continually challenging herself, not satisfied to merely produce images that look pleasing, but that reveal something of herself. Resources: Michelle Rick http://www.michellerick.com Roy DeCarava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_DeCarava Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with your donations via PayPal. https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=CPkPYZgJXYCdfsOfFfSbDm-PZj8o6jmTUg-8dUIGIJo165_5fVYcWnLwVD4&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d5c97cbf3d75cb63effe5661cdf3adb6d

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0:37.3	When I was at college at Berkeley and I wanted to find some photographic inspiration,
0:41.8	I would walk down Telegraph Avenue and go to Mo's bookstore.
0:46.5	And there I'd find my way to the photographic section.
0:50.0	There I would find a selection of used monographs by great photographers like Gordon Parks,
0:55.7	William Eggleston, W. Eugene Smith, Mary Ellen Mark, and so many others.
1:00.8	I would browse through those books, some of which I took back to my apartment,
1:05.4	and those books served as my formal photo education.
1:10.3	I would spend countless hours just looking at those books and those photographs over and over and over again.
1:18.3	Over 20 years later, some of those same books are on my bookshelves now, and they continue to inspire me as much today as they did back then.
1:28.5	And while I still buy monographs or two pretty regularly, I have to admit that some of my
1:35.4	most recent inspirations have been found on my phone, specifically on Instagram.
1:43.1	On a daily basis, I get to see amazing photographs from photographers from all over the world.
1:50.0	Just when I think, I won't see anything better, I flick my finger and my jaw drops yet again.
1:57.0	It's there that I've discovered the work of today's guest, Michelle Rick,
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