#223 Chris Grunder teaches photography at Sonoma State University and is a Director at the Bass and Reiner art gallery in San Francisco. Today we talk about contemporary art and the role that photography can play within it. This is a fun and deep theoretical conversation about why we shoot what we shoot.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

How Chris got into photography
How failing at his first few dozen rolls of film pushed him to shoot more
What is contemporary art
Why Chris moved to New York to work with commercial photographers after getting his masters in fine art
What makes up the difference between someone just started in fine art photography and an experienced artist

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Photography as Contemporary Art: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary with Chris Grunder