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Phil Mansfield: Intermediate Photography

Fridays 11am-2pm, September 3, 10, 17, & 24 

Are you ready to take your Photoshop skills to the next level? If you know your way around Photoshop but need to improve your digital skills, this two-day workshop is just the ticket. Without rehashing Photoshop basics, you will take your images from capture to print with new and exciting Photoshop techniques. In this intermediate-level class, using CS4, we will go deeper into Adobe Photoshop’s ability to help artists and photographers create, manage and output their ideas.  Working with this latest version of Photoshop, we will help you learn more of the tools and tricks available as you strive for greater control of your digital images.

We will cover an array of topics including digital workflow, (utilizing Adobe Bridge and RAW files), advanced selecting techniques, color correction, advanced blending techniques, retouching, creating actions, understanding masks and working with text.

You will leave this class with new skills and renewed excitement for your personal and professional digital photography!

Prerequisite: Participants should have a basic working knowledge of Photoshop CS4. Basic familiarity with Macintosh helps too.  

PHIL MANSFIELD joined the CPW staff as the Digital Lab Manager in the Spring 2008.  His photography has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Psychology Today and Scholastic Magazine.  His photographs were recently featured in Eat Fresh Foods: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs, a children’s cookbook published by Bloomsbury.  To learn more about Phil visit www.philmansfield.com or check out his informative blog www.cpwdigitalkitchen.blogspot.com  

Please bring:  a digital storage media device like CD’s, DVD’s, Thumb drives or an external hard drive

Class limit: 7
Tuition: $325 / CPW members: $295

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Connie Imboden: The Female Eye: Women Seeing Women

Sat-Sun, September 4-5

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 Connie, 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, Connie 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!

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, September 4, 8 PM

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Katherine Wright: Alternative Digital Processes

Sat-Sun, September 4-5

Who in this digital era feels disconnected from creating original work? Part of the awe of the wet lab was watching your images appear before your eyes, right?  Well, in this two-day workshop you will get back to physically creating one-of-a-kind images with processes that will amaze you. Through hands-on demonstrations, we will cover several alternative digital processes including; (digital) Polaroid image transfers on fine art paper and marble (fresco) panels, digital emulsion lifts onto a variety of surfaces and custom coating handmade and fine art papers for digital printing.

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.

KATHERINE WRIGHT is the director of The Photography Center of the Capital District located in Troy, NY, which offers opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in all aspects of photography. Wright oversees the whole operation — gallery, studio, library and museum — including curating exhibitions and teaching workshops. The majority of the subjects taught are technology-based and include both digital and traditional photographic forms, from basic camera operation to advanced software techniques, as well as photographic restoration, studio lighting, portraiture, fashion, food, and more. Wright received her BS in photography from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Her current personal work concentrates on women in myth and the ideals of the ethereal. Wright has been exhibited in various galleries on the East Coast, from Pittsburgh to the South Hamptons. For more information please visit www.ytkphotography.com and www.photocentertroy.org

Before the workshop: Send 4 image files to katherine@ytkphotography.com to be printed before the workshop. Images need to be sized to either 8.5” x 11” or 12” x 12” at 300 dpi saved as a TIF o PSD file format. Images need to be received by August 21. Please contact Katherine with any questions.

Please bring:  a portfolio of prints, up to 10 images, 4 – 5 digital image files saved on CD / DVD / Flash drive or Portable External Hard Drive. Images need to be sized to either 8.5” x 11” or 12” x 12” at 300 dpi saved as a TIF file format. An additional list of supplies will be sent upon registration.

Class limit: 7 
Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295  
Lab fee: $60  
This workshop is sponsored by 

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Richard Edelman: Advanced Fine Art Digital Printing

Wednesdays 6-9pm, September 8, 15, 22 & 29

This class is perfect for photographers who want to expand their knowledge of fine art digital printing.  

Over a course of our four-sessions together you will develop the skills required to make a truly fine exhibition quality print using pigmented inkjet printers, rag papers, and Adobe Photoshop CS4. 

We will create black & white and color prints using Canon wide-format printers, Museo archival papers, and high-quality archival materials. Discussion will begin with basic Camera Raw functions, post-processing in Photoshop using adjustment layers / layer masking, color to grayscale conversion, and advanced color management. We will look at various printing approaches—based on aesthetics, taste and artistic intent. These approaches will, of course, involve technical skills as well…which will be taught and practiced. 

A basic understanding of Photoshop is essential.

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, Bibliothèque Nationale, Polaroid International Collection, and the Everson Museum. To learn more about Richard visit www.woodstockgraphicsstudio.com. 

Class limit: 7  
Tuition: $325 / CPW members: $295
Lab fee: $50

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Shanberg & Slota:  
Getting Known / Being Shown 

NEW DATE!!!
Sat-Sun, September 11-12

Do you feel that if only you had the right portfolio, success would be within your reach? Do you wonder how to present your photographs to a commercial gallery, magazine editor, not-for-profit artists space, and/or museum? Do you know what grants, fellowships, and artist’s residencies are available to you? Are you unsure of how to utilize the Internet to advance your career? Which portfolio events to attend? How to price your prints? Are you yearning to have your photographs published? Join Ariel & Gerald as we explore how to negotiate the art world from the vantage point of a successful artist and a well-versed curator.

This two-day intensive is for committed photographers who have produced a developed body of work they are ready to bring into the world but aren’t sure where and how to begin. This kind of group discussion is dreamed about but rarely heard! In class you will learn how to refine your resume, present your portfolio, and create an artist statement. The workshop will include portfolio reviews and each student’s images will receive Ariel and Gerald’s undivided attention. You will leave this workshop ready to hit the real world, with more confidence and a map for your professional journey. Past participants of Getting Known / Being Shown have gone on to win awards, receive solo shows, secure commercial representation, get published in major publications, and realize their dreams.

ARIEL SHANBERG is the Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, which offers year-round programs in education, exhibition, publication, and services for artists. Ariel sees hundreds of artist portfolios and submissions annually, and has curated many exhibits, written catalog essays on various contemporary photographers, been an invited guest lecturer at major universities, and served as a juror for various grants and fellowships. He has been a portfolio reviewer at national conferences including FotoFest, Photolucida, and SPE.

GERALD SLOTA, a dynamic and energetic artist has been widely exhibited across the U.S. and abroad. His work is represented the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles. Slota has solo shows at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, Hasted Hunt Gallery, and Ricco Maresca Gallery in NYC. He  has been included in exhibits at Recontres D’Arles, France, and at Langhans Galerie in Prague, CZ. His work is also included in collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Harper’s, BOMB, Blindspot, C Photo, and Aperture. Slota has taught and lectured at many institutions including International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He has garnered many awards including a 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship Grant, a Polaroid 20x24” Grant, and a MacDowell Artist Residency, among others. You can learn more about Gerald at www.geraldslota.com

Please bring: a portfolio of 15-20 prints (no slides, CDs, drugstore photos, or stock pictures!), an artist statement, and resume or background bio.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $275 / CPW members: $255  

Public Lecture (by Gerald Slota): Saturday September 11, 8pm                           
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Fawn Potash & Danielle Correia: Encaustics & Photography

2 dates to choose from: Sat-Tues, 
June 5-8 or 
September 11-14

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 & Sculpture from the University of Montana in 1998. Soon after, she discovered encaustic and has been incorporating it into her work ever since.  She has lectured at The Gay & Lesbian Community Center in New York City, & has taught encaustic classes in private and public studios from Florida to Alaska.  Since 2004, she has co-developed workshops in photography and encaustic technique. Her own work has been featured in group and solo shows regionally and nationally.

Please bring: a complete list will be sent upon registration.

Class limit: 10
Tuition: $625 / CPW members: $600 
Lab fee: $85    

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Constantine Manos: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

Sat-Sun, September 18-19

CPW is pleased to welcome renowned Magnum photographer Constantine Manos back to the 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 www.costamanos.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 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 by e-mail: cmanosphoto@aol.com .

Class limit: 15
Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295

Public Lecture: Saturday, September 18, 8 PM

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NYC PORTFOLIO REVIEW

3 dates to choose from:
Monday June 14, Friday September 24 or Friday December 10  

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”.

In the JUNE session you will meet with Michael Foley, founder of Foley Gallery; Jon Feinstein, Curatorial Director, Humble Arts Foundation;  Whitney Johnson Associate Picture Editor, The New Yorker; Kristen Lubben, Curator at the International Center for Photography; and Lonnie Schlein, Photography Editor at The New York Times. 

In the SEPTEMBER session you will meet with Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs at The Museum of the City of New York; Lea Golis, Photography Editor at New York Magazine; Joseph Kraeutler, Partner at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery; and two additional reviewers TBA. 

The reviewers in the DECEMBER session will include Debra Klomp Ching, co-owner of the KlompChing Gallery; and  Rick Wester, founder of Rick Wester Fine Art; and three more fantastic reviewers TBA.  Additionally a representative from CPW will also be reviewing work at each session.   

Please bring: a portfolio of 10-20 prints for review, resume, and optional artist statement 
Class limit: 12
Tuition: $255 / CPW members: $225

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.

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David Maisel & Alan Rapp: The Photographer/Editor Collaboration: Publishing a Photographic Book

Sat-Sun, September 25-26

Much more than a portfolio of a photographer's work, a photography book is a special medium unto itself with its own long pedigree and particular conventions. Photographers who effectively adapt their work to book form find special insight into their practice and gain unique career-building skills.

Led by two inspiring instructors—Rapp, a photography book editor with fifteen years publishing experience, and Maisel, an acclaimed photographic artist with four books to his name (one of which, Library of Dust, they produced in collaboration)—this two day workshop will address the key creative aspects of photographic bookmaking.

During our two days together we will discuss how a photography book is conceptualized, and explore issues of format, 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 addressed.

This workshop is for photographers who have a well fleshed-out body of work that could soon be brought to book form.

DAVID MAISEL is a photographer and multimedia artist based in the San Francisco area. Maisel’s first book, The Lake Project, was published by Nazraeli Press and selected as one of the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004 by the critic Vince Aletti. Nazraeli Press published Maisel’s second book, Oblivion, in 2006, and Cascade Effect in 2008. Chronicle Books published his monograph Library of Dust in 2008, which the New York Times called "...this year's most haunting book of images." Library of Dust was the subject of a symposium in 2009 at the New York Institute for the Humanities. Maisel is the recipient of a 2008 Artist Residency from the Headlands Center for the Arts and a 2007 Scholar/Artist Residency from the Getty Research Institute. He was nominated for the 2009 Alpert Award in the Visual Arts, and short-listed for the 2008 Prix Pictet Award. Maisel has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Opsis Foundation.  His work is widely exhibited, and is represented in major public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. To learn more about David, visit www.davidmaisel.com. 

ALAN E. RAPP is former senior editor of art, design, and photography books at Chronicle Books. With more than fifteen years publishing experience, he operates a book services consultancy and works with photographers and artists on creating their books. Artists he has collaborated with in bringing their work to book publication include Jim Marshall, Elinor Carucci, Justin Guariglia, Misty Keasler, Terry Falke, Stuart Klipper, David Maisel, Jo Whaley, Nick Brandt, and Jona Frank. Through panels, lectures, workshops, and portfolio reviews he works to inform photographers about the conventions of photography books and their market. Mr. Rapp is also a writer who has contributed to Design Observer, Print, Dwell, Photo-eye Booklist, Photo District News, and San Francisco Magazine,  among other publications.

Please bring: A portfolio of work that you envision as a book project and would like to pursue to publication and two favorite photography books to be used as a reference point in the discussions.

Class limit: 15 
Tuition: $325 / CPW members $295  

Public Lecture by David Maisel: Saturday, September 25, 8 PM

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