Following each lecture and a Q&A session, speakers will be available to sign copies of their book(s) on sale at CPW
Platon: The Art & Craft of Portraiture
Saturday May 30, 8pm
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.
Linda Connor: Direction & Inspiration
Saturday June 6, 8pm
Saturday June 27, 8pm
Elinor
Carucci received her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem before
moving to NYC, where
she currently lives and works. Her intimate color photographs of
her family and self are celebrated worldwide for their emotional honesty
and personal draw. Ms.Carucci’s work has been exhibited internationally
at the Gagosian Gallery in London, Ricco/Maresca Gallery in NYC, the
Prague House of Photography, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Israel
Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design
Museum in NYC; and collected by the Museum of Modern Art in NYC,
the International Center for Photography in NYC, the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, and the Houston Museum of Fine Art. Carucci’s monographs include
Closer and Diary of a Dancer.
Additionally her images have appeared in
books Sleep, MaleFamale, Love and Desire by Chronicle; and
magazines
New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, W, Vogue, New
York, PDN, Elle,
American Photo, among others. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim
Fellowship and the 2001 ICP Infinity Award. Ms. Carucci currently teaches
at the School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery and
Art & Commerce. Her website is www.elinorcarucci.com
Tanya Marcuse: The Body
Friday July 3, 8pm
Tanya
Marcuse is a critically acclaimed
photographer whose work investigates the body and the archive.
She received her MFA from Yale University in 1990 and is the
recipient of many awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship,
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a John Anson Kittredge Award, as well as two
Photographer Fellowships from CPW. Her
work has been published in two monographs, Undergarments and Armor
and Fruitless, both by Nazraeli Press.
Marcuse’s photographs have been exhibited internationally including at Hemphill Fine Art, Yoshii Gallery, Stephen Cohen
Gallery, the Museum at FIT, Belfast
Exposed Photography in Northern Ireland, the New Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art, and at the Julie Saul
Gallery, where she is also represented.
Her work has been reviewed or
featured in the New York Times, Source Magazine, Orion
Magazine, Photo-Eye, New York Magazine, the Village
Voice, Artnews, Art in America, PDN, Art
Issues and Artforum. Her photographs are in the collections of
the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Art
Gallery, and the Library of Congress. Tanya currently teaches Photography
at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
Lothar Osterburg: Photogravure
Tuesday July 14, 7:30pm
Lothar
Osterburg started as a master
printer at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. He has been running his own
photogravure and etching workshop in New York City for the past
15 years, where he collaborated with renowned artists and
photographers including Adam Fuss, Lee Friedlander,
Laurie Simmons, David Levinthal and many more.
He has been teaching
workshops around the
country and is currently visiting professor at Bard College and
Cooper Union. Three times a Macdowell Colony Fellow, his work has
been shown extensively around the
USA, as well as Europe and Japan.
He is currently represented by Moeller
Fine Art New York. You can learn more about Lothar at www.home.earthlink.net/~lotharosterburg
Special
Location: The
Canaltown Alley Arts Center, 722 Binnewater Lane, Rosendale New York
Learn
more about Women’s Studio Workshop at www.wsworkshop.org
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Doug Beasley: Zen & the Art of Photography
Saturday July 18, 8pm
Douglas
Beasley’s personal vision explores the spiritual aspects of people
and place and is concerned with how the sacred is recognized and expressed
in everyday life. Beasley’s work has been exhibited internationally and
is widely published
in magazines such as The
Sun,
B&W, PDN and PhotoVision. His
first book: Japan; A Nisei’s First Encounter,
published in 1999, offers
insight
into his journey to his mother’s homeland. Recent projects
include ‘Silent Witness: Genocide and the Landscape’
which was commissioned by Minnesota Center for Photography
and ‘Disappearing Green Space,’ funded
by a McKnight Photography Fellowship
in 2002.
He lives in
a small wooden
home in Saint Paul, MN where, when
not out traveling the world, he can be found tending his Japanese Gardens
or enjoying a strong cup of coffee. You can learn more about Doug
at www.douglasbeasley.com
Mary Ellen Mark: The World Observed
Saturday August 1, 8pm
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
Saturday August 8, 8pm
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
Dennis Stock
Saturday August 15, 8pm
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
Doug Menuez
Saturday, August 22, 7pm
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
Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb
Saturday August 29, 8pm
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.
Eugene Richards
Saturday September 19, 8pm
Mark Citret
Saturday September 26, 8pm
Mark
Citret is a San Francisco based
photographer
who studied under the visionary artist Ruth Bernhard. He makes his living
as an architectural and fine art photographer and teacher at the
Universities of California at Berkley
and Santa Cruz. Citret had the good fortune to have worked with
Ansel Adams, both in the field and in
the darkroom. Citret has photographed extensively in New York’s
Catskill Mountains, California, the
National Parks, Italy, France,
and the Czech Republic. His work is represented and shown by Howard
Greenberg Gallery in NYC, Paul Kopeikin
Gallery in LA, Weston Gallery in CA, and Halsted Gallery in
Birmingham, MI, additionally his images are in the collections of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, and University of Arizona’s Center
for Creative Photography. An exquisite monograph of his photographs,
Along the Way, was published in 1999 and his most recent
book, Halcott Center, a Catskill Mountain Valley was published in
2004. His website is www.mcitret.com
