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Mary Ellen
Mark: The World Observed
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Sat-Sun,
August 1-2
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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 fourteen books including the most recent
Seen
Behind the Scene: Forty Years
of Photographing on Set, (Phaidon,
November 2008), 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.
Marianne Boesky Gallery in NYC represents her work. Her website is www.maryellenmark.com
Please
bring:
a portfolio of 10-20 prints, 35mm or digital SLR camera, and 15-20 rolls
of film or memory cards.
Class limit: 15
Tuition:
$455
/ CPW members: $425
Public
Lecture:
Saturday,
August 1, 8 PM
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Karen
Schlesinger: Alternative
Digital Printing
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Sat-Sun,
August 1-2
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 Have
you ever felt that traditional inkjet
printing onto paper constrains your artistic vision? Do you want to
see your image print on alternative surfaces? Do you want to turn your
digital photographic images into breath-taking
3-dimensional pieces? In
this two-day workshop you will learn different techniques for
incorporating your digital images into mixed media pieces. Through
hands-on demonstrations, we will cover several digital “Polaroid”
image transfers, image transfers to marble panels, custom coating of
handmade papers for digital printing, digital emulsion lift onto
custom-created textured substrates, and printing onto metal.
Working in CPW’s state-of-the-art Digital Kitchen, you will see each of
the techniques demonstrated and then try them yourself! There will be a
time set aside for sharing of everyone’s work, so you should bring a
portfolio of your own work, up to 10
images, and are encouraged to
bring any other type of alternative photographic process examples
that you have done before, either traditional or digital. You will leave
the workshop with at least one sample of each technique.
Karen
Schlesinger is the founder director of Digital Artist’s Space located
in Troy, NY an artist-centered digital service bureau, created by
artists for artists. Schlesinger has a MFA in Imaging Arts and Sciences
from the Rochester Institute of Technology
(RIT). From the start of her career, she has been involved in many
aspects of the art world. Schlesinger has taught at places such as RIT and
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
been a lecturer at the Sage College of Albany. Schlesinger
has shown in many solo and group exhibitions including shows at the
Limner Gallery, NYC, the Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY, the Palm Springs
Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, and
the
Texas Artist Museum, Port Arthur, TX. For more information visit www.shadowboxstudios.com
& www.digitalartistspace.com
Please
bring:
portfolio
of 10 prints, 4 - 5 digital image
files, sent ahead of time. These images should be either 8 ½
x11” or 12”x12” at 300dpi, and
they should be saved in the TIF file format, a flash drive or CD
with 4 - 5 digital image files. These
images should be either 8 ½”x11”
or 12x12” at 300dpi, and they should be saved in
the TIF file format. An
additional list of supplies
will be sent upon registration.
Class
limit: 7
Tuition:
$365 / CPW members: $335
Lab
Fee: $60
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Susan
Wides:
Picturing Landscape
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Sat-Sun,
August 8-9
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 Throughout
history, the Catskills have been a source of discovery, inspiration and
creation.
The wild beauty of this region was the muse for the historic
landscape painters of the Hudson River School; this environment
remains – ever-changing and still fascinating. Now more than
ever, during the Henry Hudson Quadricentennial,
it is a fascinating time to reflect on Landscape in this very
different time in our history.
This workshop will explore a wide range of contemporary approaches to
photography of landscape today. Students
will learn about concepts of landscape through slide presentation,
books, and discussion. We will
journey in the Catskills to make photographs at the places
that defined
“picturesque” and “sublime” of the newly formed America –
via artists, writers and travelers of the
19th Century. We will take hikes to the high peaks of the Catskills
to visit key sites of the Hudson River School paintings. We will also
visit other landscapes including environmentally
compromised places in the Catskills. In the final summary session
we will discuss and critique the photographs made during our
journeys.
Susan
Wides is best known for her cityscapes, landscapes, botanicals, and
waxworks. Wides has engaged familiar genres and proceeded to reinvent
them. She uses the essence of
her equipment–a view camera and lens–to explore perception and
camera vision. Her photographs have
been featured in 18 one-person shows
and over 60 group exhibitions in the US and Europe. Wides has had
solo exhibitions at The Center For Creative Photography, Samuel Dorsky
Museum of Art, Art in General, Urbi et Orbi Galerie and PS122
and
next
year will be featured
in a solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum.
Her work is in the permanent
collections of The International Center of Photography, Princeton
University Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale, Norton
Museum and Museum of the
City of New York, among others. Articles about her work have appeared
in Art
in America, Artforum,
New
York Times, New Yorker, Village
Voice and many catalogues. She contributes to magazines such as New York,
Harpers, Architecture, and 2wice. Wides is represented by the Kim Foster
Gallery in New York City.
You can learn at www.susanwides.com
Please
bring:
a portfolio of 10-15 prints
Class limit: 15
Tuition:
$325
/ CPW members: $295
Public
Lecture:
Saturday, August 8, 8 PM
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Dennis
Stock: The Timeless Composition
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Fri-Mon,
Aug. 14-17
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 CPW
is honored to welcome internationally
renowned photographer Dennis Stock to the Woodstock Photography Workshops!
Dennis Stock has
created some of the most lasting iconic images of the second
half of the
twentieth century. When it comes to identifying what makes an
image timeless, there is no better instructor than this legendary
Magnum Photos photographer.
This
workshop is the ideal way to learn how to bring together the intuitive and
the cerebral and both that which is
universally recognized and personally felt. Working with Stock over
the course of 4 intense and
fun-filled days, we will challenge each other and ourselves,
grow as photographers and as people.
As
Stock notes, “When we read a book, the expectation is that the author is
articulate. Discussing an important
matter with someone also requires an articulate statement.
For
a photograph to be meaningful, it
must also be articulate for it to truly be affective and memorable.”
Our
time together will begin with a retrospective
presentation of Stock’s ongoing career which spans nearly five
decades and whose approach embodies the idea of the articulate image–an image taken with a refined eye so that the feelings of the subjects appear in the photograph.
“A photograph is possibly the purest statement of essences,” Stock
says. “It’s important not to be rigid, to allow a process of discovery
to take place...” With this in mind, we then spend
time reviewing and critiquing, followed by a day being “on
assignment” as directed by Stock On our final day together, we will
discuss our efforts in reaching for that “timeless composition.”
Dennis
Stock has been a member of Magnum
Photo Agency since 1954 and served as president of the film and new
media division in 1969 and 1970. He has taught numerous workshops and
exhibited his work widely in France, Germany, Italy, the
United States and Japan. He has worked as a writer, director and
producer for television and film, and his photographs have been acquired
by most major museum collections such as The International Center of Photography, New
York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The George Eastman House, Rochester,
New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France and many
others. As well as exhibiting internationally, Stock is published in
countless books and anthologies from around the world, including Portrait
of a Young Man, James Dean, 1956; Jazz Street, 1960; The Alternative,
1970; Edge of Life, 1972; Brother
Sun, 1974; America Seen, 1980; San Francesco d’Assisi,
1981; Provence memories, 1988; Made in USA,
1995; James
Dean,
2005,
among
many others. His distinctions
include awards from the Advertising Photographers of America, 1st prize in
the International Photography Competition in Poland, and 1st
prize in Life’s
Young Photographers
Contest. You can learn more about Dennis
at www.magnumphotos.com
Please
bring:
a portfolio of up to 30 images in print or digital format for discussion.
A camera and lots of film or memory cards.
Class limit: 15
Tuition:
$625
/ CPW members: $595
Public
Lecture:
Saturday, August 15, 8 PM
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Doug
Menuez: Art Vs. Commerce
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Sat-Sun,
Aug. 22-23
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 Back
for the third 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 all 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. 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
digital jpegs versions of all images (no more
than 60, jpeg files to fit within 1024 pixels by 720 at 72 dpi).
Class limit: 15
Tuition:
$325 /
CPW members: $295
Public
Lecture: Saturday,
August 22, 8 PM
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Ernestine
Ruben:
The
Female Eye: Women Seeing Women
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Sat-Sun,
Aug. 22-23
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 Photographing
the body is a difficult
and exciting challenge. The human body, and particularly the female body,
has always played an important role in photography. Women have a
particular view of their body and often treat it as landscape, as
portrait, and as body inhabited by dreams
and expectations. Therefore we are offering this workshop to female
image-makers of all types and ages who wish to explore the celebrations of
the female form.
This
workshop will encourage you to create a fresh approach when photographing
the figure. In this hands-on
class you will discover new ways
to take risks in order to represent the female body with
innovation. We will explore how the female body has been interpreted
throughout the history of photography and learn new methods to take our
work beyond those limitations, which we all know too well. This class is
all about opening new doors with creativity!
Combining in-depth discussions, portfolio review, demonstrations, lots of
shooting, and one-on-one meetings with Ms. Ruben, you will have the time
and guidance to re-energize
and realize original and informed
directions for your image making. On location at inspiring sites,
Ms. Ruben will cover the latest techniques, innovative aesthetics,
and share her expertise on how to use
lighting to your best advantage. The
experience of working with live models will have its effects on
everything you photograph! Come with energy!
Ernestine
Ruben, an artist and teacher
for 3 decades, is a spirited leader whose
emphasis in teaching is to help her students further define their personal
creative voices. Her highly acclaimed work has been exhibited
worldwide at venues including Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the International
Center for Photography in NYC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the
Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris, and Bibliotheque Nationale also in Paris.
Her work resides in collections
at the Rodin Museum in Paris, Stanford University, Maison Europeene
de la Photography, the Museum of Modern Art Paris, and The
Detroit Institute of Art. 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
work in magazines Art
News,
New
York
Times, European Photography,
and
Beauxs Arts. Ernestine has taught
workshops and master classes in the US and abroad in Austria,
Greece, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia and Israel. Her website is www.ernestineruben.com
Please
bring:
a pre-class assignment will be sent prior
to class, 10-15 examples of your recent work, your favorite camera,
and lots of film/memory cards.
Class
limit: 15
Tuition: $325 / CPW members: $295
Model
fee: $60
Note:
a portfolio submission is required prior to class placement. Please see
the “how to register” page for what and how to send.
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Alex
Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb:
In
the Street / Personal Photojournalism
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Sat-Sun,
Aug. 29-30
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 This
two-day hands-on workshop is
about photographing in the street: using your camera to explore the
world around you in a direct and spontaneous way. Above all, it is about
seeing, emphasizing the photojournalistic
and documentary traditions, and developing your own unique vision.
A
workshop for amateurs and professionals
alike, the weekend will begin
with careful reviews of your work that will lead to assignments for afternoon
shooting. Alex and Rebecca, a dynamic and gifted team, will engage
you in discussions about how you can be spontaneous and intuitive
- the photographic responses essential to a good picture - and how
to build a body of work that represents your stance or attitude toward
the world. In group critiques we will explore the relationship
between images from sequencing and the interaction of photographs to
the emotional implications of color and pragmatic limitations. This
workshop will set you on course to creating a strong and meaningful body
of work.
Alex
Webb, a member of Magnum Photos since 1976, has published eight 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. He has worked for many major publications including National
Geographic, Life, The New York Times Magazine, GEO,
and is the recipient of a National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and the Leica Medal
of Excellence. Webb’s work is represented by Hasted-Hunt Gallery
in NYC and 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 learn more about Alex visit www.webbnorriswebb.com
Rebecca
Norris Webb, originally a poet and journalist, had her first NYC
solo exhibition at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in 2006, the same year her
first book, The Glass Between Us, was published with support from a
Blue
Earth Alliance Grant. 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. She is currently working on a series of photographs in the
American West called My Dakota.
Rebecca teaches photography
workshops with Alex in the U.S.,
Italy,
Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, and Spain. For more about Rebecca
visit www.webbnorriswebb.com.
Please
bring:
portfolio of 20-30 images, digital camera,
laptop, and memory stick or other portable device to transfer
files. (If you do not have a digital camera, a Canon digital SLR will be
provided for use at CPW.)
Class limit: 15
Tuition:
$325
/ CPW members: $295
Public
Lecture: Saturday, August 29, 8 PM
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