Dwell has a great interview with film director Eric Briker about his documentary on Julius Shulman called Visual Acoustcs. He’s a famous architectural photographer who captured iconic images of modernism in Los Angeles. I’d seen his work but didn’t know much about him, can’t wait to see this film.

In the interview Eric mentions how Julius Shulman says that “The camera is the least important part of photography”. I couldn’t agree more with this statement. Too often we get caught up in having to have the latest and greatest equipment, lenses and software. It seems like when your talking with new clients or tell someone that you’re a photographer the first thing they want to know is what kind of camera do you have, how many megapixels, what type of editing sofware do you use, and my favorite… do you shoot in .RAW or .JPG. (more…)