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Mary Ellen Mark: The World Observed	Sat-Sun, August 7-8
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 fourteen books including the most recent Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing on Set, published by Phaidon in 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 7, 8 PM TOP
Doug Menuez: Art vs. Commerce: Find the Balance	NEW DATES!!! Sat-Sun, October 2-3
Back for the fourth 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 entitled Fearless Genius. 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 TOP

Greg Miller: Widening Your Horizons: Stitching Panaramas in Photoshop

Tuesdays 6-9pm
August 10, 17, 24 & 31

Have you ever looked through your viewfinder and felt that the absolute best composition didn’t quite fit inside that rectangle? Have you heard about people creating panoramas by combining multiple images but didn't know how to get started?

This class will offer everything you need to know to manually stitch panoramas and composite multiple images. We will start by taking a field trip during sunset where we will capture multiple images to composite/stitch using your film or digital camera. We will then return to CPW’s digital lab where Greg Miller will guide you while you create your final image, ready to be printed and framed.

GREG MILLER photographs a wide range of subjects from bold & colorful panoramas of dramatic elements of nature to intimate monochromatic artistic nudes with subtle textures and tones. Commercial assignments include projects ranging from the Catskills to Chilean Patagonia. In 2009, Miller’s panorama of the Hudson River was exhibited at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. His first photo book, The Hudson River: A Great American Treasure, was released in 2008 by Rizzoli International Publications. You can learn more about Greg at www.gregmillerphotography.com.

Please bring: Digital or film camera with manual exposure control and manual focus control (digital is preferable for this class so you can work on your own images in Photoshop), normal or telephoto zoom or fixed focal length lens, memory card or film, recordable CD or thumb drive to take your work home from the lab, tripod – recommend but optional: spirit/bubble level, leveling head for tripod, L-Bracket

Class limit: 7
Tuition: $325 / CPW members: $295 (Lab fee included)

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Dawoud Bey: The Portrait	NEW DATES!!! Sat-Sun, August 14-15
CPW is honored to welcome back 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 and discussion 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 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 a Guggenheim and NEA fellowship. The author of several groundbreaking essays, Dawoud Bey has taught for the past thirty years, and is currently Distinguished College Artist and Professor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art and is presently represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston. 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 July 10, 8pm TOP
Miles Ladin: The Big Event	Sat-Sun, August 14-15
In this two-day workshop you will be introduced to the creative, technical, logistical, and business aspects relating to photographing events for yourself or others. What is “The Big Event”? It is any function that you are interested in capturing whether it is your child’s birthday party, a wedding, or a black tie gala at the MET. This workshop is geared to both the student who wants to improve their image making at family functions to those who want to earn a living with event photography. Methods for approaching family occasions, cocktail parties, store openings, corporate events, and weddings will be discussed. During these two hands-on days, students will learn how to plan, execute, edit, and present various kinds of event photography for different types of clients. Techniques for creating successful images both posed and candid will be taught. Visual aesthetics and current trends found in event photography will be discussed. During the first day Miles will conduct a portfolio review of your existing work, an overview on event photography, as well as shooting & hand held lighting demonstrations. The day will conclude with shooting an actual gala event in the town of Woodstock. The second day will commence with a critique of the images produced by students at the previous night’s photo shoot. Editing an event with Lightroom and Photoshop software will be demonstrated. Uploading events onto websites for client viewing as well as print presentation and sales will be discussed. At the conclusion of the workshop you will be ready to shoot your “Big Event” for business or pleasure! MILES LADIN has been shooting events, on assignment and as fine-art, for over 15 years. He is known for making pictures that explore contemporary society from a critical standpoint. In the 1990’s his sardonic investigations of the rich and famous first appeared in the weekly column “The Night” running Sundays in the The New York Times’ Styles Section. From 1994 through 1995, W Magazine ran a twice yearly pictorial titled “Paparazzi”, featuring Ladin’s exploits shooting A-listers at high society parties. In 1996, Ladin collaborated with writer Norman Mailer in documenting the American Presidential Campaign Trail for George Magazine. The 2001 book In The Little World by JH Richardson, features Ladin’s photography of a Little Persons’ Convention originally shot for Esquire Magazine. Ladin has also shot New York’s “downtown scene” for Michael Musto’s column in The Village Voice among others. Currently, he shoots the front row, backstage, and parties of New York’s twice yearly Fashion Week for WWD-The Collections. His corporate clients have included Giorgio Armani and Hermes. Miles’ photographs and limited edition artist’s books are included in The Victoria & Albert Museum, London and The Special Collection Libraries of New York’s MoMA and The Whitney Museum of American Art. His offbeat and edgy celebrity portraits are featured in the recently released book The World's Top Photographer's Workshops: Celebrity and Performance, with a chapter on his work including an interview, captions, and technical notes. To learn more visit www.milesladin.com. Please bring: a selection of 10-20 existing pictures of people both posed and candid that you have taken (at events if possible) for in class critique, digital 35mm SLR camera with a variety of lens’ or a variable lens including a wide angle and at least 2 memory cards (Canon digital SLR cameras available for loan at CPW), a removable flash unit and if possible off camera synch cord, extra batteries for camera and flash. OPTIONAL: battery pack for your flash, attachments for your flash such as soft box attachment or small bounce, laptop with Photoshop and/or Lightroom, small external hard drive Class limit: 15 Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295 TOP

Lothar Osterburg: Photogravure	Two dates to choose from: Sat.-Mon. August 14-16 or Wed.-Fri. August 18-20
We are thrilled to offer this collaborative workshop for the second year in a row with the renowned Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale. During this three-day, hands-on workshop, participants will learn the photogravure printmaking process by one of today’s most talented gravure artists. Photogravure is a continuous tone photographic etching process which produces a quality and tonality range that exceeds those of a regular silver print by far. The blacks in particular have a richer, non-reflective, velvety surface, what a silver print never could achieve! These tonalities are achieved by etching a copper plate gradually from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. This way the photogravure is capable of producing a much wider range of tones than any other photographic or printmaking process. The finished plate is printed like an etching on a heavy rag paper. Photographers who have used this process include Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis, Paul Strand, Joel Peter Witkin and Josephine Sacabo. During the first day of the workshop, participants will work in the CPW’s state-of-the-art digital lab making the films necessary for the Gravure process. Here you will receive detailed instruction on how to produce high quality digital negatives. The following two days will be spent working at WSW where you will be preparing your plate for print. Their beautiful professional studio will provide all you need to walk away with a photogravure of your own! 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.lotharosterburgphotogravure.com Please bring: a complete list will be sent upon registration. Class limit: 7 Tuition: $450 / CPW members $400 / Lab fee: $50 To learn more about Women’s Studio Workshop go to www.wsworkshop.org Optional: If you want to continue working an extra day after the workshop, you can rent the printmaking facilities at WSW for only $100. Supplies included. Public Lecture: Saturday, August 14, 8 PM (at CPW) TOP
Doug Beasley: Zen & the Art of Photography	Sat-Sun, Aug. 21-22
In this workshop you will revitalize your photographic practice by exploring your relationship to your subject, your camera, and yourself. Through exercises, assignments and field trips participants will start to deepen their visual awareness while clarifying their artistic approach, which will create a more personal and meaningful image-making experience. This workshop provides a unique opportunity to rethink our expectations of what it means to ‘see’. We will work on cultivating simplicity while making more powerful photographs, supporting the notion that a photograph is not ‘taken’ but made. We become better photographers by becoming more in touch with our inner selves and then use that awareness to deepen our connection with our subject, whether it’s a person, place, or thing. Zen and the Art of Photography is a challenging invitation to redefine your whole approach to image making. Inspiration will be sparked by a balance of conversation, meditation, readings, poetry or whatever means necessary. Photographic exercises and assignments will be site specific and are concerned with both internal and external experience and growth. Because this is a weekend workshop, the process of image making will be emphasized over editing and critiques. 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. As founder and director of Vision Quest Photo Workshops, Beasley has provided photography workshops that emphasize personal expression and creative vision since 1992. 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 Please bring: a portfolio of 12 prints or digital files, camera with plenty of your favorite film or memory cards, camera manual, spare batteries, sharpie, pencil, pen and notepad. Optional: tripod, filters close-up or macro lens, flash, laptop Class limit: 15 Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295 Public Lecture: Saturday, August 21, 8 PM TOP
Karen Davis & Mark Orton: Creating Your Own Portfolio Website	Sat-Sun, Aug. 21-22
This exciting workshop is for photographers, artists and craftspeople who want to get a portfolio on the web with ease - and have time to spare to make more artwork! These days, having a presence on the web has become a powerful means for sharing and marketing your work. In this hands-on workshop you will learn to use free web-based software to create, maintain, and update your own website using WordPress. This application is increasingly being used for websites because of its ease of use, flexibility of design, independence, cost-savings, and power. Through in-class exercises and assignments, the instructors will guide you as you determine your website’s structure, appearance, and build your own site. You can be on the web by the end of the workshop! Prerequisites: Experience using web browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari, and word processing programs such as MS Word. Since images are a key part of your site, experience with basic photo editing and image sizing is advised using programs such as Photoshop Elements, iPhoto, or editors supplied by digital camera manufacturers. KAREN DAVIS is a photographer, book artist, and teacher. Her work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, the Boston Drawing Project at Carroll and Sons Gallery, and in corporate and private collections. She is the recipient of the 2009 Photographers’ Fellowship Award from the Center of Photography at Woodstock and was an invited exhibitor at the 2009 International Photography Festival in Lishui, China. Recent solo exhibitions include The Bromfield Gallery, Boston (2009) and The Griffin Museum of Photography (2008). Karen earned a B.S., History, Simmons College, M.A., Education, University of Chicago, and a degree in Manufacturing Processes from Wentworth Institute, MA. Visit www.yesthatkarendavis.com. MARK ORTON, a business coach and consultant, has been involved with web-centric information technologies for over ten years. Recently, he has been focusing on web technologies that enable non-technical people to build and maintain their own web presence. Mark holds degrees from Lawrence University and the Wentworth Institute of Technology. He maintains three websites using WordPress: his business site: www.businesscoach.us.com; gallery site: www.davisortongallery.com, and his personal site: www.markorton.com Please bring: list will be sent upon registration. Class limit: 7 Tuition: $325/ CPW members $295 TOP
Carla Shapiro: Portraiture: On Assignment	Sat-Sun, Aug. 28-29
CPW welcomes Carla Shapiro to teach an exciting new portraiture class. This workshop is designed for people who wish to discover new places and photograph people on location - either for their personal work or on assignment. The class will explore and render your personal and artistic ability into insightful and moving portraits. Exercises and readings will help to establish a rapport with your subject in a short period of time, which is often the case when shooting for magazines or newspapers. Students will see slide presentations which will aid with composition, and will learn various lighting techniques which will assist in creating dynamic portraits. On the first day Shapiro will lead critiques on the portfolios participants bring to class.In addition, different techniques will be discussed on how to successfully photograph people on location. On the second day a field trip to a nursing home will be taken to photograph the elderly using the methods and information learned in the classroom. After the fieldtrip discussions and critiques will be given on the work that was produced that day. CARLA SHAPIRO has been a photographer for over 25 years and has created bodies of work about woman, aging, 9/11, and beauty. Shapiro has been an educator for 20 years and has shown her work throughout the country. She currently teaches graduate students at Pratt Institute. She has received many grants and fellowships including two NYFA Artist Fellowships, a Fellowship Fund award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Golden Light Award from Maine Photographic Workshops and a NJ Council on the Arts Photography Fellowship. Her portraits have been published in The Sun and Architectural Technology among others. To learn more about Carla, visit www.carlashapiro.com. Please bring: a portfolio of 10-20 prints, your favorite camera, plenty of film or memory and a tripod. Class limit: 15 Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295 TOP
Lynn Saville: Night Visions	Sat-Sun, Aug. 28-29
Are you ready to explore twilight and low-light photography? Have you wanted to take a great photograph in the evening but are not sure how? Twilight is a study in contrasts. Changing conditions of light and weather interact with architecture and landscape to build and dismantle an endless series of twilight scenes, each hinting at pleasure and mystery. CPW is pleased to welcome Lynn Saville to lead a workshop in night photography. In this workshop, students explore this shifting play of light and shadow, developing their powers of observation and photographic techniques. Specific technical information will give you the skills and expertise you need to make beautiful photographs. Field trips will include a variety of locations such as small town public spaces, rural roads and parks, where there is minimal street lighting and waning daylight. Woodstock, Kingston and some of the mysterious local rural areas will be the specific places we will explore during this workshop. Each student creates a new series of photographs that address the paradoxical twilight identities of the local towns and countryside. Students may work in digital media or film (black-and-white or color). LYNN SAVILLE is on the teaching faculties of the International Center of Photography and New York University. Her work is exhibited on the international level and is in numerous public and private collections. Recently a book of her new color work, Night/Shift, with an introduction by Arthur C. Danto was published by Random House/Monacelli Press. Lynn’s work is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. She lives in NYC with her husband, the poet, Philip Fried. To learn more about Lynn visit www.lynnsaville.com Please bring: a camera with plenty of your favorite film or memory cards, tripod, "remote" or cable release, flashlight, and try to come to class comfortable with your camera’s manual setting. Class limit: 15 Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295 Public Lecture: Saturday, August 28, 7PM TOP
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