Great Book

This is short read book.  If you are a photographer, videographer, painter, etc.  this is a book you might want to pick up and read. When you are in a creative profession or even just a hobby, there comes a time when your ideas seem to feel flat.  The equivalent to 'writers block'.   "Art and Fear" walks you through some questions like: "What is your art really about?", "Where is it going?" and "What stands in the way of getting it there?".  Whatever your artistic passion is, there is always a time when the artist questions whether his or her work is really any good.  You look back at older work and if you are like me you laugh.  Your creative expression is really an evolution of things you have seen and things you have experimented with.  For instance, as a photographer you rarely take one photo of something you take several.  That's why bracketing is such a great tool.  You play with light.  You manipulate shutter speeds or depth of field to convey or communicate to the audience, the story.   But even after all of that,  you still look at your work from the 'professional eye' and see things that you just don't like. It could be angle, lighting, subject, color, etc.  Ansel Adams used an old adage that said, "the perfect is the enemy of the good".  The point I think here is that it's really never going to be PERFECT and if you wait for it, your not going to get your shot.  Maybe that's a life lesson as well.

The thing I most retained from the book is this:  We all study each others work, whether you are a Photographer, Videographer, Writer, Painter, etc., eventually your own preferences and style emerge.  The book had a quote that said; "sing the song of your heart, and sooner or later the world will accept and reward the authentic voice".   Man! John sure is going deep on this post!

So anyway...Just thought you might want to pick the book up.  It's about 125 pages.  ISBN 0-9614547-3-3

Thanks,

John