Most people, most adults in particular, children can be a little more naive and, and easier to photograph because of that. Most adults are worried about things like their hair or do they look fat? And so my job is to make them feel comfortable. It's akin to being a good hostess, a good leader. If you're confident and you set the tone that you know what you're doing and that they're in good hands then they open up to you. But for someone like Sheryl Sandberg, or if you were to say, do a portrait of me or someone else's family, or it will come to your own family in a minute, do the tell them to
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.