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AMY ARBUS The Narrative Portrait: Photography Workshop August 1 — 6 9am—12N Tuition: $700 + digital print fees Open to all A good picture story sets the scene, introduces characters, evokes a mood, and shows action with all of its great or terrible consequences. Like a single frame of a movie, a narrative portrait raises more questions than it answers. In this workshop we will combine the techniques of portraiture and photojournalism to create a series of photographs about someone in Provincetown. Participants should prepare by looking at The Provincetown Banner (http://www.provincetownbanner.com) for possible story ideas. We will cover how to research your subject, approach people, involve them in the process and help them feel at ease. We'll discuss the techniques of fashion, lifestyle, photojournalism and portraiture. There will be slide presentations and critiques. We'll also discuss editing, sequencing and presentation. Please bring a manually adjustable digital camera, and laptop. Overnight film processing is not available locally. Also bring a portfolio of 20-30 images, and a sense of adventure.
JOANNE DUGAN This class is designed for photographers, visual artists and writers who love photographic books and want to create one of their own. Our idea-driven week of exploration will take students through the steps of developing a book concept— including fine art monographs, coffee table books and children's books— from presentation to publication. We'll discuss how to show your concept visually, what makes a great picture, editing, sequencing, the art of collaboration with writers and designers, and the value of a good title. Although the first emphasis is on creating books for personal expression, for those interested in publication there will also be discussions of proposal writing, how to determine your audience, and an overview of publishers, covering both the traditional as well as the rapidly expanding "publishing on demand" options. Several short photographic assignments will help clarify our thinking about the photo book format. You will leave the class with a refined concept as well as a clear plan of how to move your project forward. Please bring at least one cohesive idea for a book project or a project already in progress, including reference prints. You'll need a digital camera and if available, a laptop for editing. Your tuition includes a limited number of printouts per day, and digital images will also be projected for in-class discussions. A good working knowledge of photography basics is assumed.
This course will consist of an in-depth examination and exploration of the photographic portrait and the space in which it occurs. Participants will be encouraged to question and challenge the very definition of the portrait and how it's made and functions. Emphasis will be placed on how the figure relates and perhaps changes in direct relation to the space in which it exists— oftentimes the setting in which a portrait is made tells us more than we might imagine. There will be ongoing slide presentations and critiques. Students will be encouraged to create a cohesive body of work that is both conceptually sound and formally resolved. We will edit and sequence the work in order to create a flow of images which best describes a person and their relationship to their setting. I will ask you to question old habits and to perhaps work in a manner that is new and challenging. The element of surprise should never be underestimated. Please bring a manually adjustable digital camera, and laptop. Overnight film processing is not available locally. Each participant should also bring a portfolio of 10 to 15 images that best represent their work.
The primary mission of this course is to teach precise techniques for photographing in the public domain unobtrusively and at close range — combining people, place, and moment in unique images never seen before. The elements of chance, time, place, as well as personal point of view play important roles in this type of personal documentary photography. You will be striving to find personal poems plucked from the raw material of daily life. This is not photojournalism, although the lessons learned here may be applied in photojournalism and all photography. You will be working in the tradition of street photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, Frank, Winograd, and Webb. You will not be photographing what things look like; you will be photographing how you feel about them. After an introductory lecture and portfolio review on the morning of the first day, you will go out into the town to photograph. Digital cameras only will be used for this course, and you will edit your pictures overnight and bring images to the class the next morning for critique. This process will continue through the week. You will learn by daily shooting with instant constructive critique of your images in class. You will work with one small digital camera and will shoot in wide-angle mode in the 28-35mm range, either in color or b&w. What to bring: A manually adjustable digital camera, and laptop. Overnight film processing is not available locally. Also, a tightly edited portfolio of your work, either in print or digital form, for evaluation. We will have a digital projector for showing digital portfolios and work shot during the week.
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BIOGRAPHY
Amy Arbus has published four books, including the
award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The
Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called
her most recent, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece.
Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred
periodicals around the world, including New York
Magazine, The New Yorker, People, and The New
York Times Magazine. Her advertising clients include
American Express, SpotCo, Nickelodeon and Saatchi
& Saatchi. She teaches portraiture at the International
Center of Photography, Maine Media Workshops
and The Fine Arts Work Center. She is represented
by Anthropy Arts and The Amador Gallery in New
York, Clic Gallery in St. Barth, and The Schoolhouse
Gallery in Provincetown. She has had twenty-two solo
exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part
of the collection of The New York Public Library and
The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
BIOGRAPHY
Joanne Dugan is the author of ABC NYC: A Book
About Seeing New York City and 123 NYC: A
Counting Book of New York City, and two fine-art
monographs combining text and image: To Music
and Other Short Stories and Mostly True, a limited edition
private printing accepted into the library
collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The New
York Public Library. She was the photographer for
the book Taxi Driver Wisdom and its sequel Beauty
Parlor Wisdom. Her limited-edition, fine-art images
are widely collected and are part of many domestic
and international collections. Her work has won
more than a dozen national design and photography
awards from Communication Arts, Graphis, the
Art Director's Club, How Magazine, Photo District
News and The American Institute of Graphic Artists.
She is on the faculty at the International Center of
Photography in New York City and is represented by
Ernden Fine Art Gallery in Provincetown.
BIOGRAPHY
David Hilliard creates large-scale, multi-paneled
color photographs, often based on his life or the
lives of people around him. His panoramas direct
the viewer's gaze across the image surface allowing
narrative, time and space to unfold. He exhibits his
photographs both nationally and internationally, and
his work can be found in many important collections
including the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and
the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His numerous
awards include the Fulbright and a Guggenheim.
He has taught at Harvard and the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and was director
of the photography department at Cranbrook Art
Academy. He is currently an assistant professor
at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
His work is represented by the Yancey Richardson
Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons Gallery in
Boston, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and the Mark
Moore Gallery in Santa Monica. In 2005, a collection
of his photographs was published in a monograph
by Aperture Press. This past spring David was the
artist in residence at Dartmouth College, where he
mounted a large-scale exhibition of his work.
BIOGRAPHY
Constantine Manos is a member of Magnum
Photos, the international picture agency. His
books include Portrait of a Symphony, A Greek
Portfolio, Bostonians, and American Color. Manos's
photographs are in the permanent collections of the
Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute
of Chicago, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of
Art in Atlanta, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris,
the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, and others.
He has conducted Master Classes in Maine, Cuba,
Mexico and Greece. In 2003 he won the Leica Medal
of Excellence.
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