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Platon: The Art & Craft of Portraiture
Sat-Sun May 30 - May 31
Back
by popular demand! This is a two-day,
hands-on intensive creative session for dedicated photographers who
have a developed body of portraiture and are ready to take their work to
the next level! Whether you are a professional or just beginning to break
into the professional arena, Platon, who consistently receives outstanding
praise from his students, will nurture your creative instincts and awaken
you to fresh and new perspectives. 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.
You
will share portfolios and Platon will present a slide talk to inspire and
energize the class. Platon, who moves gracefully between fine art and
commercial photography, will lead discussions on some of the important
issues pertaining to people pictures, with a focus on creative ins-and-outs,
problem solving, awakening the senses, staying positive, pressures
of the job, and how to succeed.
Platon will take you through a professional shoot and demonstrate
his lighting setup. In turn, each
student will have the opportunity to shoot one another using
Platon’s custom studio set-up. Working from both sides of the lens, you
will learn how to better empathize with your sitter and have time for
application of new techniques bringing vision to life.
Platon,
a NYC based photographer,
born in London, attended the esteemed St. Martin’s School of Art before
going on to study at the Royal College of Art, where he earned his
BA and MA. He received British Vogue’s “Best Up-and-Coming
Photographer” award in 1992 along with the opportunity to contribute
images to the magazine. Since then Platon has continued to shoot for an
impressive range of publications including The New York
Times Magazine,
Time, Esquire,
and Rolling Stone. His advertising credits include memorable campaigns
for Issey Miyake, Nike, Levi’s, Moschino, IBM, and Motorola.
Platon has exhibited at Hamilton’s Gallery
and in London, Spiral Hall in
Tokyo, Leica Gallery in NYC and Japan,
Saatchi Gallery, and the Carla Sozzani Gallery in Milan. Phaidon
Press published his latest book, Platon’s Republic. His work is
represented by the Art Department in NYC. For more info about Platon visit
www.platonphoto.com.
Please
bring:
Class
limit: 15
Lab
fee: $30
Public
Lecture:
Linda Connor: Direction & Inspiration
Sat-Sun June 6-77
Please
bring:
Class
limit: 15
Tuition:
Public Lecture:
Barbara Ellison:
Getting the Best Results from the Canon Digital SLR
Sat-Sun
June 6-7
In
this two-day workshop you will learn from a pro how to produce the highest
quality images with a digital SLR camera. This class is the first step for
any photographer interested in learning about digital single lens reflex
cameras and the benefits of digital imaging! Ellison will demystify the
manuals and offer hands-on instruction on how to obtain the best results
from a digital camera. She will start from the beginning and cover the
basics of how to use a digital camera, including digital capture, white
balance, JPEG vs. RAW files, and color
space, in addition to composition
and exposure. Participants will be provided with a Canon digital
SLR for class instruction, but if you have your own digital SLR you are
welcome to bring that for class use. You will shoot images and Ellison
will show basic Photoshop steps
to prepare images for printing, including unsharp masks, levels,
and resizing. All will leave with new inkjet prints and a sound foundation
to move forward in the digital realm. Participants should have
a basic photography foundation and know how to use a standard
film-based SLR, but no prior digital experience is required.
Barbara
Ellison has photographed and
painted since she was a child. As a
ProMarket representative for Canon USA since 1989, she has a
diverse range of experiences — from as- sisting
photographers in their studios
to working events such as the Kentucky Derby, US Tennis Open, the Olympics,
and political conventions
and inaugurals nationwide. She has taught numerous workshops on digital
applications, technique, hand coloring, and floral photography.
Please
bring:
Class limit: 15
Tuition:
Phil Mansfield: Photoshop I for Photographers
Tuesdays
6-9pm
June 9, 16, 23 & 30
This
class is the essential and exciting first step for anyone interested in
jumping the digital divide and learning about the basics digital darkroom
techniques. Through demonstrations and hands-on exercises over the course
of these four three-hour classes, you will be lead step-by-step through
the basics of Adobe Photoshop CS4.
Please
bring:
Class limit: 7
Tuition:
Keith
Johnson: Finding the Social Landscape
Sat-Sun,
June 13-14
Upstate
New York is full of both natural and man-made wonders. From
the Hudson River to the Catskill
Mountains, from wildlife to industry and from the local residents to the
visiting tourists; this workshop will investigate how the natural landscape
and the social landscape collide
to offer up grand photographic possibilities.
Please
bring:
Class limit: 15
Chris Jordan: Introduction to Photoshop
Sat-Sun, June 13-14
In
these two, fun and information-filled days, you will build your own
digital toolbox of powerful-yet-simple
Adobe Photoshop techniques that
you can use on all of your digital images. Combining engaging tutorials
led by Jordan with hands-on computer work in CPW’s
state-of-the-art digital lab, the workshop promises to provide you with a
productive, smooth, and exciting introduction to Photoshop.
Christopher
Jordan is a photographic artist, fine art printer, and instructor. He
earned his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and holds a faculty
teaching position at The Sage College of Albany, NY, where he teaches
photography and digital imaging full-time. In addition to teaching, he
runs an architectural photography business and assists in running the
service bureau, Digital Artist’s Space. Jordan works with both analog
and digital techniques as he sees fit. He is particularly interested in
how artistic vision unfolds through various photographic processes. Learn
more about Christopher’s work at www.jordanphoto.com
Please
bring:
Participants should have basic computer skills: how to open and save
files and organize folders and some Macintosh familiarity will help too.
Class limit: 7
Tuition:
NYC
PORTFOLIO REVIEW
3
dates to choose from:
Monday June 15,
Friday September 18
or Friday December 11
Join
CPW for a very special portfolio review event where you’ll have the
opportunity to show your work to some of the most distinguished and
important professionals in photography today. Held in NYC, in a supportive
setting, you will have your work reviewed by five noted luminaries in
one-on-one twenty-minute sessions. Reviews can provide you with
constructive feedback, new directions, and perhaps that jolt of
inspiration to take
the next step. Testimonies from last year’s participants
included: “great feedback by committed and engaged reviewers”,
“informative and inspirational”, “one-of-a-kind, unpretentious, and
fun”, “a great place to trade ideas”, “encouraging, helpful, and
insightful”, “I got what I was looking for and made connections”,
“open minded, honest, and thoughtful”, “it changed me and
helps break barriers to the NY art world”.
Please
bring:
Class limit: 12
Tuition:
NYC
location directions will be sent upon
registration confirmation.
The
reviews will take place from 10:30am-4:30pm
*You
may only register for 1 of the 3 dates.
Dina Pearlman: Web Design for Artists
Wednesdays
6-9pm
June 17, 24, July 1 & 8
Do
you want to learn how to make your own online portfolio! Are you seeking
to control your own “on-line presence”? Experienced web designer and
photographer Dina Pearlman will show you how. Using
the power of Adobe’s Creative Suite and Dreamweaver, the
mysteries of web design will begin to unravel.
Dina
Pearlman has worked as a designer, photographer and web developer
since 1988. Currently, she teaches Computer Art and Web Design at SUNY
Ulster, the Ulster County’s
Business Resource Center, and
has her own freelance business, wordimagemedia
which has
designed dozen’s of successful individual artist
websites. To learn more about Dina visit www.wordimagemedia.com
Class limit: 7
Tuition: $255
/ CPW members: $225
Richard
Edelman:
Introduction to Fine Art Digital Printing
Thursdays
6-9pm
June 18, 25, July 2 & 9
Making
exhibition-quality digital prints takes time and expertise. This
class offers you the opportunity to work with a master printer who
has produced exhibition quality prints that have been shown throughout the
Art World. Over the course of four classes, we will examine the tools and
methods for making color fine-art prints with digital inkjet printers.
Using Adobe Photoshop CS4 you will learn to modify your images in a
manner, which is easy, fun and based on conventional darkroom experience
and techniques.
We will examine a variety
of general
approaches to printing, utilize basic and advanced color management
techniques, compare papers, and
even compare digital processing with prints made in conventional
darkrooms. Students may work with images made on film (to be scanned), or
digitally captured. We will discuss not only the processes involved in
making prints–but we will explore what a fine print is …the
relationship of tone, hue, contrast –and
how these characteristics tend
to be affected by materials in the digital domain. There will an
additional optional trip to Woodstock Graphics Studio, which is located
just down the street from CPW.
Richard
Edelman is the principal of Woodstock Graphics Studio, which
specializes in retouching and printing
work for artists. He received a
Masters in photography from Pratt Institute and a BFA from
Rochester Institute of Technology. Edelman has taught photography at the
New School, School of Visual Arts, ICP, and William Paterson University
(NJ). His own photographs can be found
in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Canadian Centre
for Architecture, Bibliothčque Nationale, Polaroid International Collection,
and the Everson Museum. To learn more about Richard visit www.woodstockgraphicsstudio.com
Prerequisite:
Please bring:
Class
limit: 7
Tuition:
Lab
fee: $60
Fawn
Potash & Danielle Correia: Encaustics & Photography
2
dates to choose from:
Co-hosted
with R&F Handmade Paints,
this four-day hands-on workshop
will provide you with the basic working knowledge to combine
photographic processes with the encaustic medium. Encaustic, an ancient
Greek wax-based medium, can
be used to give unusual dimension to
your work, provide new substance and body to a photograph, add translucent
layers, alter the illusion of space, and transform your imagery.
This interdisciplinary workshop will
combine presentations, step-by-step
instruction, and plenty of time to
experiment and make new work.
On
Days One and Two at the Center for Photography at Woodstock we will
explore creative ways to work with photography and encaustic and
see inspiring examples including the work of Joel Peter Witkin and Doug
& Mike Starn. Then we will roll up our sleeves and prepare our images,
experimenting with various photographic processes including toning,
coloring, cyanotypes, digital prints,
digital negatives, and a variety of
transfer techniques. On Days Three and Four at the encaustic studio
at R&F
Handmade Paints, we will learn about the many ways to incorporate
the photographic images with the
encaustic process. We will learn about the many different effects
including layering, optical effects, intensification of light and depth in
an image, and how to make imagery translucent. The class will also
cover archival techniques, methods of presentation, and basic safety.
This is a class about experimentation:
leave your old ideas behind and open the doors to new possibilities
and
processes! To learn more about the encaustic process please visit
the R&F website www.rfpaints.com
Fawn
Potash is a photographic artist,
educator, and curator whose work has been exhibited and collected internationally.
Potash’s imagery has been published in Harper’s, The New
Yorker,
Mirabella, and Art News.
Fawn
teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and spent over a decade
leading CPW’s Woodstock Photography
Workshops. Her work can be seen at www.fawnpotash.com
Danielle
Correia is an interdisciplinary
artist who received her BFA in
Photography and Sculpture from The
University of Montana. She has been working at R&F since 1999,
where she discovered encaustics, and
has incorporated it into her work ever since. She has lectured at
The Gay
and Lesbian Community Center in NYC and has taught encaustic
classes from Florida to Alaska. Her work
has been featured in exhibitions regionally and nationally.
Please
bring:
Class limit: 10
Tuition:
Lab
fee: $85
Sat-Tues, June 27-28
Much
more than a portfolio of a photographer’s work, a photography book is a
special medium unto itself with a long pedigree and particular
conventions. Photographers who effectively adapt their work to book form
find special insight into the medium and gain unique career-building
skills. Led by two inspiring instructors–a photography
book editor with fifteen years publishing experience and a professional
photographer with two books under her belt, one of which they
worked on together –this 2-day workshop will walk you
through through the key creative aspects of photographic
bookmaking.
During
the weekend we will discuss how a photography book is conceptualized,
we will explore different types
of formats, editing/sequencing, and production factors.
Photographers will also learn about how to research the book market to
best identify potential publishers, and how to work up an effective book
proposal and maquette. Finally, we will discuss useful strategies for marketing
and promoting your book. Important industry shifts such as the
economic pressures on publishers
and the rise of print-on-demand publishing will also be discussed.
Alan
E. Rapp is former senior editor of art, design, and photography books at
Chronicle Books. With more than fifteen years publishing
experience, he now operates a book services consultancy and works
with photographers and artists on creating their books.
Please
bring:
Class limit: 15
Tuition: