How the Buffalo AKG Art Museum Became My Photography Classroom

Issue 203 — Your local art museum should be your's too.

I often wander the quiet halls of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York with my camera bag over my shoulder – but my camera stays tucked away. I’m not there to shoot photos. I’m there to study. I stand in front of paintings and absorb lessons from the masters. For example, I always pause at Albert Bierstadt’s “The Marina Piccola, Capri, 1859” …