L.A. Paul: I want to read a quote from the essay that you wrote for your second book, Homestage. When we became parents, Chris and I had entered into an alternate and strange world," she says. "I wondered what exactly I had cared about so much before I had them" The days are long, but the years are short, as one grandmother said.
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.