Many of them are two people like you just described but many of them are a number of children, some of whom I assume are cousins or friends. Sometimes it might be one person looking at the camera, which is a great trick which forces you to draw your eye to them. There are a few pictures in the book that are completely un-orchestrated. And there's a theme that has always interested me, the sense of being together but alone. So, this is a birthday party. It's a festive event. These children are all gathered together. But, at the end of the day, we're all alone with our own thoughts. That's where creatures of our minds
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.