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The Portrait, The Environment July 26 – July 31 9am-noon Open to all 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. What to 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 which best represent their work.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Proust This workshop is intended to help the student develop their intuitive visual process through exercises, assignments and discussions. We are taught our whole lives to think things through, be in control, and act with reason rather than intuition, but that approach limits our vision to see just what we expect to see, not what is actually in front of us. When our eyes are open to the world without expectations or assumptions, our vision can expand. Using the camera as a tool to explore that world can be an exciting and powerful way to photograph and experience the world around us. In this workshop, process is emphasized over the product, playfulness is encouraged, and mistakes are pathways to discovery. Students should work with digital cameras. Overnight film processing is not available locally. This workshop is open to all levels, though a working knowledge of your camera is important. Please bring: a portfolio of 10-15 images that best represents your work, manually-adjustable digital camera, and laptop.
A Master Class in the art of capturing the moment and making the ordinary extraordinary. 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 and never to be seen again. 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. Please bring: 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.
This class will explore pinhole photography as a form of image making and various methods of printing and transferring images in the darkroom and with a press. We will make pinhole cameras and paper negatives (and positives) for a few days and then investigate ways to present these images through coating paper and various methods of transfer. While we will concentrate on the pinhole images, you can bring your own negatives and positives, digital camera files or old family photographs to use as well. You need no photographic experience or computer genius. In making pinhole cameras we experience the accidental and magical way to use photography and in the exploration of various transfer methods we can move away from the traditional idea of how a photographic print should look.
This workshop is for photographers currently working on a long-term photographic project that they are passionate about. Over the week, participants will edit and sequence their photographs from this project (30-80 small prints), write an introduction, and work on a title. An editing exercise, one-on-one encounters, and group edits will teach the class how to edit intuitively. The main emphasis in this workshop is NOT on publication, but on focusing and shaping a project into a coherent whole. For some participants, this may result in a layout of a photographic exhibition; for others, a book dummy to be shown to potential photo book publishers; for others, the project workshop may result in an edit for a future self-published online book; and for others, it may produce a sequence of family photos or other personal body of work. Please bring: --30-80 photo prints (5x7 or 8x10) of a long-term project. They can be either ink jet prints or cheap photographic prints, (The quality of the print isn’t important -- we just need to see the image. --Notebook or laptop to write the introduction and title. Lab fee $20 per student
Rebecca Norris Webb, had her first NYC solo exhibition at Ricco Maresca Gallery in 2006, the same year her first book, The Glass Between Us, was published. Her series, which uses text and images to explore the complicated relationship between people and animals in cities, has also been included in several group exhibitions, including "Why Look at Animals?" at the George Eastman House. Currently, she's working on a series in the American West, My Dakota, as well as the upcoming joint book, Violet Isle, with her husband and creative partner, Alex Webb. Rebecca edited Alex's two most recent books (Crossings and Istanbul) and teaches photography workshops with him around the world. To view her work: http://www.theglassbetweenus.com/ or http://www.riccomaresca.com/
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Joanne Dugan is the author of the photographic children’s books ABC NYC: A Book About Seeing New York City and 123 NYC: A Counting Book of New York City, both published by Harry Abrams, and two fine-art monographs combining text and image: To Music and Other Short Stories, published by Living Agentur for Kultur in Germany
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 best-selling book Taxi Driver Wisdom and its sequel Beauty Parlor Wisdom, (Chronicle Books). Her fine-art images are part of many domestic and international collections. She has shot for clients nationwide including Marriott Hotels, Crayola, Bank of America, AT&T, New York Magazine and many others. 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 teaches at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
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David Hilliard creates multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally, and has won numerous awards such as the Fulbright and Guggenheim. His work is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica and in Frankfurt at the LA Galerie. He worked for many years as an assistant professor at Yale where he also directed the undergraduate photo department; he has also taught at Harvard and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In 2005, a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture Press.
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Connie Imboden has been photographing the nude exclusively since 1983. Her work is in the collections of many major museums including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Bibliotheque Nationales in Paris, France and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany. Her photographs have been exhibited in group and solo shows at galleries and museums in England, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Chile and through out the United States. Her fifth book, published in 2009 from Insight Editions, is called Reflections, 25 Years of Photographs by Connie Imboden. Her first book of images, Out of Darkness, won the Silver Medal in Switzerland’s "Schonste Bucher Aus Aller Welt (Most Beautiful Book in the World);" her other books, Raw Seduction of Flesh, Beauty of Darkness, and Piercing Illusions further illustrate her photographic journey. Imboden currently teaches photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art as well as many workshops around the world.
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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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Marian Roth has been working with photographic pinhole imagery since the early 90’s and has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Fellowship, a Lightwork Fellowship, a C-Scape/National Seashore Fellowship, and a Natalie Barney Fellowship. Her pinhole images have been published widely and exhibited throughout the world. For the past two years she has returned to painting and drawing as well. She is represented locally by the Kobalt Gallery.
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Alex Webb, a member of Magnum Photos since 1976, has published seven books including Hot Light/Half Made Worlds, Under a Grudging Sun, Crossings: Photographs from the U.S. Mexican Border, and Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, his most recent book. He has worked for many of the major publications including National Geographic, Life, New York Times Magazine, GEO, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. Webb’s work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe in museums such as the International Center of Photography, the High Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. To see his work: http://www.magnumphotos.com/