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Getting inspired through the work of others

Getting inspired through the work of others

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Getting inspired through the work of others

- Hi, this week on the Practicing Photographer, we're going to talk about books. Steve, this is my good friend, Steve Simon, photographer. Yes, Steve. - Yes. I love my books. - I love my photo books. - You got a lot of photo books. Now on a previous Practicing Photographer, I talked about the importance of looking at what's come before. There's been a lot of great photography over the last 150 years. And a lot of the times, photo students don't ever study any of it, so I encourage you to go out and look at some of the great works of Cartier-Bresson and Elliott Erwitt. And there's so many - There's so much to choose from, there is. inspiration here. - I will go to a book for inspiration. I'm always inspired when I go to a library and check out a photo book. - So, is that mostly what you do? You get them out of the library? You look online? You just buy them? - Well, I try... I sort of don't get them out of the library. I collect them and I have my own library. But what I say is I go…

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