Found photograph from the collection of Ben Alper / The Archival Impulse
Songs about photography to listen to while you edit, shoot, curate, write, or do whatever it is you do at your non-photo-related day-job
For the past year or so, it’s been a fun quarterly tradition for us to “curate” (and on that note, remember a few years ago when folks in the art/photo community, including us, got mad at overuse of that word to describe organizing things like tech, music, or sock drawers, that we thought weren’t “curate-able” - we digress…) a Spotify mix related to the themes of our online exhibitions.
But we’ve never created one of songs more generally (or specifically) about photography.
So here goes - 30+ songs about photography to keep your mind on photography, often with the word “photography” (or camera) in the title or lyrics.
Special thanks to photographer and fellow music nerd Ben Alper for letting us use an image from his snapshot collection for the cover. Have fun, enjoy, and feel free to drop us an angry or friendly note letting us know what we’re missing.