Every artist develops their own method or practice of how they create work. In this Mini-workshop, we’ll look at three different photographers (Eugène Atget, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus) and try to understand how, with their individual photographic practices, they managed to change the course of photography.

The poet Stéphane Mallarmé described the approach to painting of Édouard Manet — who broke free from the conventions of academic painting —  as akin to throwing yourself into the water to learn to swim: when Manet would begin a painting, he’d plunge headlong into it, not knowing in advance exactly how it will be painted, but discovering how to paint it through the act of painting itself. So follow along, hurl yourself into the water, and learn to swim!