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Mary Ellen
Mark: The World Observed
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Sat-Sun,
August 2-3
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 We are honored to present a very special
two-day workshop with Mary Ellen Mark, one of the most renowned women in
the international field, a gifted photographer, and a captivating
teacher. With Mark you will explore contemporary trends in personal
documentary photography and photojournalism. You will investigate human
relationships, people’s desires, aspirations, and learn how to interpret
social situations in many aspects of urban and rural cultures through
photography.
In class we will explore the work of Mary
Ellen Mark and fellow students from around the world. Following an
in-depth portfolio review the class will take a field trip to the Ulster
County Fair to spend the day making photographs, with direction and
encouragement from Mary Ellen. Working together, you will have the
opportunity to grow and take risks within an understanding and supportive
peer group. Throughout the weekend Mark will review your progress and
discuss your career, techniques, approaches, and the themes within your
work.
MARY ELLEN MARK
is one of the most respected and loved documentary photographers in the
world. Her photographs of world cultures, subcultures, and personalities
are landmarks in the field. Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through
her numerous photo-essays and portraits in such magazines as The New
Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Stern, Details,
Allure, Rolling Stone, Vogue, US, Life, and the
London Sunday Times Magazine. For almost three decades she has
traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of
humanism. Mark, a socially committed photographer, who continues to make
images of passion and integrity, has been the recipient of the Cornell
Capa Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, ICP’s Infinity Award for
Journalism, and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts. Mark has published thirteen books including Falkland
Road, Mother Teresa's Mission of Charity in Calcutta, A Cry for Help,
Indian Circus, Mary Ellen Mark: 25 Years, American Odyssey, and Twins. Falkland
Road was re-released in 2006 by Steidl with new, never before
published images along with the classics originally featured. Marianne
Boesky gallery in NYC represents her work. Her website is www.maryellenmark.com.
Please
bring:
a portfolio of 10-20 prints, 35mm camera, and 15-20 rolls of film.
Class limit:
15
Tuition: $455 / CPW
members $425
PUBLIC
LECTURE, SATURDAY, 8PM
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Connie
Imboden: Using
the Nude to See the World in a New Way
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Sat-Sun,
August 9-10
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by popular demand for the second year in a row!
Artists have always used the nude to explore the surreal and the natural,
as well as our spiritual and psychological lives. In this workshop you
will be encouraged to look at the human form in a way that is new to you
and explore the figure for its beauty, complexity, and simplicity. Whether
you regularly photograph the nude, are new to the figure, or feel stuck
and just need a push getting back into photography, this class, designed
to help you see intuitively will deliver a burst of energy, new methods,
direction, and clarity.
During
our time together, everyone’s work will be reviewed to help assess
strengths as well as areas that might need attention. Specific assignments
will be given each day and afternoons will be spent photographing
on-location with both male and female models in locations that will
encourage interesting visual interactions. Whether you shoot film or
digital, each participant will have the opportunity to shoot digital
images the first day for in-class feedback. Throughout the rest of the
shoots participants are welcome to shoot either film or digital. Process
will be emphasized over product and playfulness will be encouraged. Our
mistakes contain valuable information, and in this workshop we will look
at them without judgment, but rather as guides to help tell us where to
go. The only prerequisite for this class is that you should be
comfortable working with your camera.
CONNIE IMBODEN’s
photographs
have been exhibited extensively at galleries and museums in England,
France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico,
Venezuela, and the United States. Her work is represented in the permanent
collections of the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, the National Museum of American Art in Washington DC, the
Corcoran Museum in Washington DC, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
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) Award. Imboden’s work has also been featured in Aperture,
American Photo, Camera and Darkroom, Photo Metro, Photo Review, Black and
White, View Camera, and Zoom Magazine. Imboden currently teaches
photography at the Maryland Institute, and has lead workshops across the
United States, France, and the Czech Republic. To learn more about Connie
visit www.connieimboden.com
*Note:
a portfolio submission is required prior to class placement. Please see
the “how to register” page for what and how to send.
Please
bring:
a portfolio of 10-20 prints, favorite camera, film or digital memory card.
If you do not have a digital camera for assignments, a CANON digital
SLR will be provided for use at CPW.
Class limit:
15
Tuition:
$325 / CPW
members:
$295 /
Model fee:
$60
PUBLIC LECTURE, SATURDAY, 8 PM
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Dan
Burkholder: Introduction to Photoshop: Building
a Solid Digital Foundation that You Can Use Day in and Day Out
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Sat-Sun,
August 16-17
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 Dan
Burkholder returns by popular demand! If you’ve been waiting for an Introductory to Photoshop class that is
taught by an honest to goodness photographer (rather than a computer
jockey) this workshop is for you! In
these two, fun and information-filled days, you will build your own
digital toolbox of powerful-yet-simple Photoshop techniques that you can
use on all of your digital images. Hands-on computer work in CPW’s state
of the art digital lab will make your learning curve productive, smooth
and exciting.
During
this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of retouching, resolution,
and printing. See how easy it is to organize and archive your personal and
family digital images. Learn how to prepare your images for email,
printing and for the web. Discover the parts of Photoshop that you really
need. And rejoice at learning which parts you’ll never need to know!
Take home a printed workbook filled with tutorials and resource materials.
If you’ve been looking
for the perfect class to launch you into digital photography, this is the
class for you! Participants should have basic computer skills: how to open
and save files and organize folders. A bit of Macintosh familiarity will
help too.
DAN
BURKHOLDER has been teaching digital imaging workshops for 13 years at
venues including the School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Photo Fusion,
London; the Royal Photographic Society, Madrid, Spain; the International
Center of Photography, New York; the Melbourne Royal Institute of
Technology, Australia; Santa Fe Workshops and many others. Dan’s
workshops are famous for their energy, information and humor.
His award-winning book, Making
Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, has become a standard resource
in the fine-art photography community. His new book, The
Color of Loss; an Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina (University of Texas Press), graphically illustrates the
post-Katrina destruction of the Crescent City’s homes, schools churches
and workplaces. Dan’s platinum/palladium and pigmented ink prints are in
private and museum collections internationally.
Learn more about Dan at www.danburkholder.com
Please
bring: 10 PSD or JPEG
image files to work on (8x10” at 300 DPI), including both your final
ready to print version and the raw unmanipulated capture or scan (problem
images are welcome and helpful), digital camera, and notebook.
Class
limit: 8
Tuition:
$285 / CPW members: $255
Lab fee: $30
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Christopher
James:
Alternative Photographic Processes
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Sat-Sun,
August 16-17
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 Don’t
miss this two-day, hands-on, workshop for visual artists and photographers
who want to explore, and play with, the concepts and techniques of
alternative process photography led by one of the most renowned artists in
the field! Previous participants buzzed with energy and rave reviews: “James
gives 200% information and enthusiasm… EXCITING …. dynamic, humorous,
and so knowledgeable! …. Organized, attentive …. the best of all
workshops I’ve attended here and elsewhere!” As digital imaging
takes over the medium, visual artists are turning to alternative
processes, and the hand-made photograph, to express their photographic
visions… and subscribing to the theory that the future of photography
may be found in its past.
During this intensive two-day workshop
you will survey the history and techniques of alternative process
photography and will use pinhole cameras to produce 4x5 Polaroid contact
negatives for your contact printing processes. You will also make, weather
permitting, a giant cyanotype mural and learn how to prepare chemistry,
hand apply sensitizers to paper, calculate UV exposures, and process
prints. A full day will be dedicated to learning the albumen process from
fresh eggs to final print. There will be a good deal of conversation,
studio time, and visual presentation, regarding all alternative process
options for your work. By the conclusion of the workshop you will begin to
see how alternative process concepts, experiments, and techniques can
stimulate new directions and options for your own unique vision and
portfolio. Christopher's alternative process workshops are always a lot of
fun so be sure to bring along your sense of humor.
CHRISTOPHER
JAMES is Chair of the
photography program at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
and an internationally recognized artist whose paintings and photographs
have been exhibited in galleries and museums in this country and abroad.
His work has been published and shown extensively, including shows in The
Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The George Eastman
House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The first edition of his book, The
Book of Alternative Photographic Processes received unprecedented
critical acclaim, was the winner of The Golden Light Technical Book of the
Year, and is recognized as the definitive text in the genre. The
second, and significantly larger, edition of this book
was published in February 2008. Christopher
was a Professor at Harvard University from 1978–1991 and has lectured
and given alternative process workshops throughout the world.
You can learn more about Christopher at www.christopherjames-studio.com.
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 good idea to get a
copy of his new book, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes:
Second Edition (Cengage Delmar, 2008), as it will be used as a text
for this workshop.
Class
limit:
12
Tuition:
$365 / CPW
members:
$335
Lab
fee:
$60
PUBLIC LECTURE, SATURDAY, 8PM
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Dawoud
Bey: The Portrait
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Sat-Sun,
Aug. 23-24
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is honored to welcome renowned photographer & educator Dawoud Bey to
lead this inspiring two-day portraiture workshop! Are you looking to
expand your understanding of the photographic portrait?
Do you want to explore new possibilities and intimacy in your work?
This workshop will nurture your creative instincts and awaken you to
fresh and new perspectives in portraiture! Bey will lead you
through several different group activities which will address different
approaches toward portraiture. Blending
both technical and creative exercises, you will learn first-hand about
lighting, studio shoots, how to work on location, how to listen to your
own creative impulses, and to strengthen your personal style.
In
addition to ongoing critiques of your portfolio and the work you produce
in class, we will be to looking at photographic works that are
thematically relevant to the class. We will address many of the conceptual
and practical issues surrounding the making of the photographic portrait.
Bey will also provide readings by various writers that will hopefully,
inform and expand your understanding of the photographic portrait as a
genre.
DAWOUD BEY began his career as a photographer in
1975 with a series of photographs, “Harlem, USA,” that were later
exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in
Harlem in 1979. He has since had numerous exhibitions worldwide, at such
institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art in
Atlanta, GA, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Wexner Center
for the Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where his works were
also included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. The Walker Art Center
organized a mid-career survey of his work in 1995 that traveled to
institutions throughout the United States and Europe. A major publication,
Dawoud Bey: Portraits, 1975-1995
was published in conjunction with the exhibition. In 2007 Aperture
published Class Pictures and
mounted a traveling exhibition of this work that is currently on tour.
Bey’s works are included in the permanent collections of numerous
museums, both here in America and in Europe, including the Brooklyn
Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
National Portrait Gallery in London, Whitney Museum of American Art, and
many others. He has received numerous awards including Guggenheim and the
NEA fellowship. He is also the author of several groundbreaking essays.
Dawoud Bey has taught for the past thirty years, and is currently
professor of photography at Columbia College Chicago. He is presently
represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
You can learn more about Dawoud at www.dawoudbey.net.
Please
bring:
a portfolio of 10-20 images, your favorite camera with plenty of
film/memory cards
Class
limit: 15 /
Tuition:
$325 / CPW members: $295
PUBLIC
LECTURE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 8PM
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DOUG
MENUEZ: Art Vs. Commerce
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Sat-Sun,
Aug. 23-24
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 Back
for the second year in a row due to popular demand! In
this two-day workshop you will learn strategies to find the balance
between personal and commercial work in order to build a satisfying
creative life in photography for the long term. A workshop for all kinds
and levels of photographers, and especially for those who’ve reached a
plateau in their careers, who want to make a break through creatively, and
reconcile the never ending conflict between doing the work you love and
what you must do to pay the bills. Award-winning documentary photographer,
Doug Menuez, will share what he’s learned about keeping your voice in a
commercial world and provide practical solutions for changing your life
and work.
Combining
portfolio review, dialogue, and practical applications, you will learn new
strategies for success including how to edit the strongest possible
portfolio, self-financing personal projects, finding sponsors, landing the
most rewarding commercial work, and pain-free financial management skills
that most artists never learn. You will also review work by the legends
– famous fine art photographers and photojournalists who have succeeded
in taking commercial assignments without compromising their vision or
integrity. Additionally we will examine how money talks: including proven
marketing techniques, cash flow management tools, budgeting, writing book
and project proposals, and other core survival skills that every
photographer - fine art, photojournalist, or commercial shooter- must know
to thrive. You will leave this workshop with a clearly defined vision of
yourself and your work, a refined portfolio, and a working understanding
of basic business and marketing skills you’ll need to move ahead!
DOUG
MENUEZ spent 25 intense years traversing the globe after leaving art school
for photojournalism, and then becoming one of the most successful
advertising photographers in the US. Starting at the Washington Post
and then freelancing for Time, Newsweek, Life, Fortune, and People,
he covered assignments ranging from the famine in Ethiopia, to sports and
celebrities, to the AIDS crisis. Menuez has made portraits of everyone
from Mother Teresa to Robert Redford and President Clinton. His long-term
personal work covering Silicon Valley led him to award winning commercial
work where he was able to bring his documentary eye to campaigns for
Chevy, Coke, Emirates Airlines, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Siemens,
and Nokia, among others. These commissions allowed him to finance his
personal fine art documentary work, including his most recent book
project, Transcendent Spirit: The Children of Uganda. Recently,
Menuez’ archive was acquired by Stanford
University Library. He is currently working on a new book on
Silicon Valley and lives with his family. His website is www.menuez.com
please
bring:
20 of your best photographs in a finished portfolio format, as well as
lots of other work you’ve left out or were afraid to show, a laptop or
paper notebook, as well as a disc with digital jpeg versions of all images
(no more than 60, jpeg files to fit within 1024 pixels by 720 at 72 dpi)
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Class
limit:
15
Tuition: $325 / CPW
members: $295
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CONSTANTINE
MANOS:
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary
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Sat-Sun,
Aug. 30-31
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 CPW
is pleased to welcome renowned Magnum photographer Constantine Manos to
the 2008 Woodstock Photography Workshops! During this workshop you
will learn how to make candid pictures in the public domain in which the
ordinary is made extraordinary. Combining people, place, and moment we
will attempt to create images which are surprises - moments which have
never been seen before and will never be seen again. We are looking for
complexity, beauty, mystery, and emotion. Showing what things look like is
not enough: we must show how we feel about the subject matter.
After an introductory lecture on Saturday morning followed by a group
portfolio review, we will go into Woodstock to photograph and attempt to
put some of our newly acquired knowledge into practice.
The results of our shoot will be viewed and critiqued in class on
Sunday morning. Through the
process of looking at photographs from the past and reviewing our own
work, we will attempt to understand how and why pictures succeed or fail
in making the ordinary extraordinary.
Before you come to class study the work of some "street
photographers" such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander (early
work), Garry Winogrand, Alex Webb, Josef Koudelka, Elliot Erwitt, Helen
Levitt, and Bruce Gilden.
CONSTANTINE
MANOS
is a member of Magnum Photos. His books include Portrait
of A Symphony, A Greek Portfolio, Bostonians, and American Color. The son of Greek immigrant parents, he grew up in
South Carolina - where he received a B.A. English Literature from the
University of South Carolina.
Manos'
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 George Eastman House in
Rochester, and others. Manos has conducted Master Classes in Maine, Cuba,
Mexico, and Greece. In 2003 he won the Leica Medal of Excellence out of a
world-wide field of 250 entries. His work may be seen at magnumphotos.com.
Please
bring:
Bring a small 35mm or digital camera with 28mm/35mm equivalent lens. No
tripods, no telephotos, no huge camera bags, no photographer's vest: we
wish to be invisible in the streets. Zoom lenses will be taped at
wide-angle settings. Digital cameras are more convenient for this type of
course. For those shooting digitally bring a laptop for your editing.
Also please bring a
portfolio of 10-20 images of your work for review.
Exhibition quality prints are preferred in order to see the quality
of your craft, but CD or laptop images for projection are also acceptable.
If you have any questions you may contact Constantine at cmanosphoto@aol.com.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $325 / CPW
members: $295
PUBLIC LECTURE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 8PM
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