As we set out on a field trip into the great Catskill Mountain range, Chris will guide you to obtain on film the links between what you feel and see. Making new pictures, we will tune into the land and its energy, and listen and watch for spiritual connections to unfold. Group portfolio sharing and discussions on how to secure funding, get published, exhibition opportunities, careers in travel photography, and how to get started in this area of the field will supply you with the tools to move your vision forward. Come prepared to work hard, sleep is optional!

CHRIS RAINIER is considered one of the leading documentary photographers working today. His mysterious images of sacred places and indigenous peoples of the planet have been seen in the leading publications of our time including Time, Life, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler,­ The New York Times, Smithsonian, New Yorker, and the publications of the International Red Cross, the United Nations, and Amnesty International. His photographs and books have been exhibited and collected around the world at venues including the George Eastman House in Rochester, International Center of Photography in NYC, Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the United Nations, Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC,­ Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and National Geographic Society Explorers Hall. He is the recipient of five Picture of the Year awards for his continued documentation of vanishing tribes, a 1998 Alfred Eisenstadt award for his photography of the Sahara desert, and a 1994 International Golden Light award for his first book Keepers of the Spirit.­ Chris was recently included in American Photo Magazine's 100 most influential people in photography today. His second book Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea was published in 1996­with an exhibition that is presently touring museums both in North America and Asia. Rainier lectures and teaches seminars on the use of photography as a social tool both internationally. He lives among the mountains and streams of Aspen, ­Colorado.

Participants should bring: camera, plenty of film, and a portfolio of 10-20 images.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                TOP

This is a workshop designed to help you discover or strengthen your own original vision and to broaden the way you think about photography. Its purpose is to help serious amateur or professional photographers explore the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects of image making. Our goal will be to develop or refine a sense of personal style and to make work more passionate and ­fulfilling. 

Emphasizing simplicity, use of natural light, practical demonstrations, field trips, portfolio reviews, and discussions centering on the work of both historically significant and little known photographers, Keith will help you clarify your views on producing work and balancing the various aspects of a busy life. In addition, he will discuss darkroom technique and expressive printmaking, and how to develop projects, exhibitions, and enter the publishing world. Come with a sense of humor and a sense of purpose. Open to all formats, black-and-white and color.

KEITH CARTER, one of the most loved and illuminating teachers, returns to the Center to share his inspiration with us. Called a "poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Carter's haunting enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, the US, and Latin America. An internationally recognized photographer and educator, he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Eight monographs of his photographs have been published From Uncertain to Blue 1988, The Blue Man 1990, Mojo 1992, Heaven of Animals 1995, Bones 1996, and the mid-career survey Keith Carter Photographs-Twenty Five Years 1997. Holding Venus and Ezekiel's Horse were both published in 2000. His images are included in numerous collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey grants and the Lange-Taylor prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1998 he received Lamar University's highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award and was named the Lamar University Distinguished Lecturer. Please visit Keith's website at www.keithcarterphotographs.com.

Participants should bring: camera, plenty of your favorite film, and a portfolio of 10-20 images.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $290 / non-members $310
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                 TOP

Farber will help you to better understand technical vehicles including film, cameras, filters, and exposure; he'll share some of his personal techniques, but emphasis will be on the aesthetic of how you see. You will have important discussions on how to work with models and how to capture the beauty and sensitivity that lies within the human form. Participants who take this class should have the technical knowledge necessary to be able to take the next step and the desire to be in touch with your creative art.

ROBERT FARBER’s style has helped to influence a generation of photographers. His seven coffee-table books have sold over a half a million copies. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis brought Farber into Doubleday to publish his book By The Sea, which won the Art Director's award for color photography. His latest book, Natural Beauty-Farber Nudes was released in 2001. His fine art photographs have been published in virtually every form and exhibited in the US, Japan, and Europe. He has lectured at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, universities, and for professional groups in the US, Japan, Australia, and Europe.

Robert's commercial work includes major campaigns for fashion, beauty, and advertising clients. His editorial and advertising work has appeared in most­ major magazines in the United States and abroad. Robert's involvement in the Internet began in 1994 with www.Farber.com, a virtual gallery of his work. Because of its popularity, Farber created what is now Photoworkshop.com. This site, visited by nearly 2 million photographers internationally, has become one of the most successful and unusual methods to learn photography on the Internet.

*PORTFOLIO REVIEW REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION Please send 10-15 slides or prints (no larger than 11x14") (labeled with your name, image title, date, size), SASE or return postage for material return, and your completed registration form. You will be notified of status within 7 business days after receipt of material. Note: portfolios will be reviewed throughout the season and may be send at early as March 25, 2002.

Participants should bring: camera, plenty of film, and a portfolio of 10-20 images.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $290 / non-members $310 
model fee: $50
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                TOP

We'll begin with a review of participant's portfolios and look at photographs made by both historical and contemporary photographers in books and magazines. Then we'll go on assignment to shoot in and around the Woodstock area. William, drawing on his expertise that bridges both fine art and commercial photography, will lead you in an examination of craft and presentation, editing, equipment, production, and story development. This workshop is for those beyond the basics but willing to rethink some of those basics.

WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ has been making photographs for over 25 years. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, Abranowicz worked with photographers George Tice and Horst P. Horst. As a print maker he has printed the negatives of Edward Steichen, Michael Disfarmer, George Hoyningen- Huene, and Horst. He is the author of the Greek File: Images from a Mythic Land (Rizzoli, 2001) and has been a contributing photographer for Conde Nast Traveler for nearly ten years and contributing editor for House and Garden. He has photographed for Martha Stewart Living since the magazine's inception and has had features published throughout the world, including those in the New York Times Magazine, Elle Décor, Rolling Stone, Food and Wine, and GEO. He taught photography at the New School for Social Research and Parsons School of Design. His commercial clients include Banana Republic, Gap, Giorgio Armani, Tommy Hilfiger, and Pottery Barn. Abranowicz is represented by Art and Commerce in NYC and has had recent solo shows at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in NYC and Afterimage in Dallas, TX.

Please bring: 10-20 prints, camera(s), film, notebook; a tripod and light meter suggested.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                TOP

In this workshop you will learn to skillfully scan, masterfully manipulate, and accurately output your images with finesse and confidence. This in-depth, digital class is perfect for people who have some experience (intermediate) with Adobe's Photoshop but want to take their technical skills to another level of accomplishment in order to compliment the conceptual content of their imagery.

Each participant will work from their own station. The first of this two-day workshop, will emphasize the finer details of input utilizing both flatbed and film scanners. Working with your photographs or negatives in a Mac formatted lab featuring G4's, we will explore the possibilities Photoshop has to offer for manipulating your images. The depth of investigation will range from straight-up digital darkroom techniques such as color/tonal correction using masks and channels, to multi-layered, hyper-realistic images where your imagination is your only limitation. Day two will find us honing our output skills by experimenting with a variety of mediums (papers) on a variety of printers that will include film recorders, inkjet printers, laser jets, and large format archival printers. We will wrap up the workshop with discussion and critique of the final prints we produce.

JIM FOSSETT is an artist and educator who has taught digital imaging for the past eight years. He currently teaches in the photography and graphic design departments at SUNY New Paltz. He makes his home in the Hudson Valley where he does freelance work to support his teaching habit. His clients include the New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fossett has extensive experience as both an offset press operator and as an Iris printer producing digital fine art prints. He is a founding member (with his wife Suzanne Stokes) and principal performer of the multi-media performance group, Cave Dogs, whose critically acclaimed piece, How to Build a Raft, was based on his documentary project of migrant farm workers in the Hudson Valley. Exhibition and performance venues in NY include The Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Arts Center, P.S. 122, The Widow Jane (Rosendale), and SUNY New Paltz. Boston venues include Mobius, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Arts, and Boston College. For his collaborative work, Fossett has received grants from Franklin Furnace, Henson Foundation, and NLT Foundation. Fossett has produced two photo/digital public art installations for the cities of Cambridge and Belmont, MA.

Participants should bring: a list will be sent upon registration
Class limit: 12 
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295
lab fee: $40                                                                                                                                                         TOP

In this two-day workshop, master photographer, Bruce Davidson, will lead you through an intimate and insightful survey of the professional and creative field and share his own stories and experiences spanning his forty years of accomplishment. You'll explore the imagination and hard work required to be a creative photographer, and the practical sense and persistence required to break in as a professional. Craft, discipline, and focus on form and content will be discussed and portfolios will be shared for constructive evaluations.

Davidson will discuss how to break into the professional world, how to organize your creative thinking, and how to let things happen! He'll share his own triumphs and failures and reveal the eyes, mind, and heart behind some of his most important works-The Brooklyn Gang, Subway, The Circus Clown, Central Park, and East 100th Street. Bruce will show you a spectrum of his work, including fine art black-and-white and color prints, and talk about some of the technical means he used to make them.

BRUCE DAVIDSON began photography at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. In 1949 he was awarded the first prize in the Kodak National High School Competition. He later went on to study at RIT and then to Yale University. Davidson was a photographer for Life magazine before becoming a member of Magnum Photos, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient in 1962. In 1963, the Museum of Modern Art presented a one-man exhibition that included The Dwarf, Brooklyn Gang, and works from the Civil Rights Movement. He received the first grant in photography from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966, and spent two years documenting one block in Spanish Harlem, published East 100th Street. Bruce Davidson Photographs, is a collection of twenty years' work that traces his artistic development. Six monographs on Bruce's work have been published and he is currently working on the seventh! Davidson's photographs have been collected and exhibited by most of the major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institute, George Eastman House, Walker Art Museum, and International Center of Photography. Edwynn Houk Gallery represents his work in NY.

Participants should bring: camera, plenty of film, and a portfolio of 10-20 images to share.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                TOP

Through visual and written exercises, presentations, and wide-ranging discussions we will try to articulate our ideas about the nature and meaning of photographs, and of photography. We'll also consider ways to talk more fruitfully about pictures, to get beyond "I like it" or "that's interesting," in order to develop a critical vocabulary that enables you to articulate what you want from your pictures, and what they actually do. Whether you are a photographer, a collector, or just enjoy photographs, this will be a meaningful and rewarding day of insight.

CHARLES HAGEN is a photographer and critic who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.­ He currently teaches photography and video at the University of Connecticut and in the graduate photography program at Bard College. He is a former art critic for the New York Times, and was the editor of Aperture magazine. His ­photographs are represented by the Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, and have been widely exhibited and collected.

Participants should bring examples of photographs that are particularly meaningful to you-they can be your own photographs, images from your collection, or even family snapshots. 
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $120/ non-members $135                                                                                                      TOP

This is a two-day, hands-on, workshop for photographers who want an introduction to the concepts and techniques of alternative process photography led by one of the most renowned artists in the field! In this workshop you'll explore the world of alternative photographic printmaking and investigate the history and techniques of the pinhole camera to make large format Polaroid negatives for UV / sunlight contact printing. You'll use these negatives to create prints and learn to apply a variety of sensitized coatings on paper and fabric.

We'll make prints using Sir John Herschel's original Cyanotype and Kallitype and/or Van Dyke techniques from the 1840's. James will also teach you how to prepare modern formulas for post-development toning so that the colors and tonalities of your images are adaptable to your creative intentions. By the conclusion of the workshop you'll discover how alternative process concepts, experiments, and techniques can result in new directions and options for your unique vision and portfolio. Christopher's alternative process workshops are always a lot of fun. Bring a sense of humor!

CHRISTOPHER JAMES is an internationally known artist and photographer whose paintings and alternative process images have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. His work has been published and shown extensively at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman House, and Witkin Gallery. His latest book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (Delmar, 2001) has received unprecedented critical acclaim and was the winner of The Golden Light Technical Book of the Year award. After 13 years at Harvard University, Christopher is currently professor and chair of photography at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. He is also a working graphic designer and a professional scuba diver.

* Please include an e-mail address with your registration so that Christopher can write to you before the class with specific info. It would be a very good idea to get a copy of his new book The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (Delmar, 2001), as it will be used as a text for this class.

Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295
lab fee: $50
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                TOP

This is a workshop for experienced photographers and serious amateurs who want to take portraiture to the next level. In this hands-on class you will learn how to go beyond the ordinary to arrive at the soul of a portrait. This is a workshop about possibilities, control and style: how to recognize a gesture or mood - something intangible - and make it into a strong portrait. Every face tells a story and through this workshop, you'll learn how to portray what you see with your eyes into a great photograph.

Combining discussions, critiques, demonstrations, assignments, and his own portraits and stories, Steve inspires the class to forgo the traditional rules of portrait making and to define a personal vision and approach. Additionally, he is also interested in discussing how to tap into commercial possibilities. Most of my photos are grounded in people...I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person's face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person-a person caught in a broader landscape that I guess you'd call the human condition. - Steve McCurry.

STEVE McCURRY's career was launched when, disguised in native garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes and images that would be published around the world. His coverage won the Robert Capa Gold Medal. Since then McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict, including the Iran-Iraq war, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and most recently conflicts in Kashmir, Yemen, and Pakistan. McCurry has had his share of close calls. Arrested and chained in Pakistan, beaten and almost drowned in India by zealous crowds at a religious festival, and nearly killed by a rival Mujahadeen faction, Steve has been reported killed twice. He has won most of photojournalism's highest awards, including Magazine Photographer of the Year. Steve joined Magnum in 1985 and has been published in over 25 books, including monographs Sanctuary (2002), and South Southeast (2000). His work has been exhibited at the New York Historical Society, National Gallery of Modern Art in India, Philadelphia Museum of Art, International Center of Photography, and Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Participants please bring: a portfolio of 10 - 20 prints, camera, and plenty of film.
Class limit: 15 
Tuition: CPW members $275/ non-members $295
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                TOP

In class you will address issues of the imaginative process, the ups-and-downs of careers, personal blocks, and you'll recognize your achievements. Our ideas will come to life as we go on location to photograph with both indoor and outdoor opportunities, models, and natural and studio lights. Ernestine provides personalized instruction and shares her expertise on how to use lighting to your best advantage, technical tools for alternative approaches, and new ways to address your subject, be it the nude, the landscape, the figure in the land, interiors, or still life. Seeing in new ways, trusting your own intuition, and learning new techniques will allow your inner vision to flow freely, and you'll get on paper the images you always only imagined. Experienced students are encouraged to attend.

ERNESTINE RUBEN is a highly acclaimed artist, whose photographs have been exhibited worldwide at venues including John Stevenson Gallery, NYC; International Center for Photography, NYC; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Musee d'Art Moderne,
Paris; and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Her work is included in the collections of the Rodin Museum, Paris; Stanford University; Maison Europeene de la Photography; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, Paris; and The Detroit Institute of Arts. Published in many books including In Human Touch, Ruben on Rodin, The Art of Enhanced Photography, 21st- Journal of Contemporary Photography, Ernestine Ruben: A Book of Photographs, and Ernestine Ruben: Forms and Feelings, you may have also seen her images in the magazines Zoom, New York Times, European Photography, and Photo Review. Ernestine has taught workshops in the US and in Austria, Jerusalem, Greece, Czech Republic, Germany, and Israel. You can visit her web site at: www.ernestineruben.com.

*PORTFOLIO REVIEW REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION Please send 10-15 slides or prints (no larger than 11x14") (labeled with your name, image title, date, size), SASE or return postage for material return, and your completed registration form. You will be notified of status within 7 business days after receipt of material. Note: portfolios will be reviewed throughout the season and may be send at early as March 25, 2002.

Participants should bring10 examples of their recent personal work, a camera, and lots of film.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: CPW members $275 / non-members $295 
model fee: $50
Public Lecture: Saturday, 8 pm                                                                                                                                TOP

You will get feedback on the work you make in class and answers to all your questions. Judi will present examples of inspiring photographs and discuss the elements that make a good picture including subject matter, composition, light, pattern, texture, and mood. What begins this weekend may become a new career and/or almost certainly a lifelong passion!

JUDI ESMOND has served as the Center's education and outreach coordinator and teaches in the Hudson Valley at the Children's Home of Kingston, Rockland County Community College, the Children's Annex, Onteora High School, Woodstock Day School, Mill Street Loft, and Poughkeepsie Day School. She offers private lessons at the Center for beginner, intermediate and advanced level photographers. Judi has also taught with Maine Photographic Workshops, Skidmore College, SUNY New Paltz, and Edenwald-Gun Hill Community Center. In addition to her teaching talents, Judi is an independent freelance photographer, custom printer, and has worked as the studio assistant in NYC to photographers Jan Groover and Michael O'Neil. In her personal photography, Esmond pushes limits and employs both experimental and traditional methods. Her wide breadth of knowledge spans a variety a cameras and classic and alternative techniques.

Participants should bring: 35 mm camera. If you don't have a 35 mm camera, please contact the Center and we can arrange to provide one.
Class limit: 5 
Tuition: CPW members $175 / non-members $195 
lab fee: $20                                                                                                                                                             TOP