What Might You See That I Don't See?

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Jared Altschuler: "I'm not a skilled observer. My parents' art wasn't part of my childhood" He says he and his wife decided to learn how to draw so they could better understand the world around them. They started sketching, and we got better at drawing very quickly; I never got very good. But when you start drawing, you realize it's not that I don't know how to draw. What might you see that I don’t see? So in figuring out the cover image, the editors, the publisher, and I were trying to see what I was doing.

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.