Following each lecture and a Q&A session, speakers will be available to sign copies of their book(s) on sale at CPW
Sam Abell: The Life of a Photograph
Saturday May 29, 8pm
SAM
ABELL is a dedicated
and insightful teacher, an expressive artist, and a sensitive
photographer. He began working as a photographer for National Geographic in 1969 and has since covered numerous
assignments ranging from the wilderness to cultural events. Abell has
published nine books with National
Geographic, including Seeing Gardens and Australia: Journey
Through a Timeless Land. Sam’s images retraced the steps of cowboy
artist Charles Russell in the 1987 book titled C.M.
Russell’s West. Additional
fascinating projects included those on the life of Winslow Homer and
collaborations with historian Stephen Ambrose including Lewis &
Clark: Voyage of Discovery. His monographs include the mid-career
retrospective, Stay This Moment
and a book of his best personal and professional work, Sam
Abell: The Photographic Life. In addition to Sam’s extensive
publications, his work has been exhibited worldwide at venues including
the International Center for Photography in NYC. A treasured artist and
teacher, Abell has lead workshops and lectured throughout the world.
This Lecture is free and open to the public and sponsored by
Wendy Ewald: Collaborating with Communities
Sunday June 6, 7pm
Saturday June 12, 8pm
DAVID
HILLIARD
creates multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the
lives of people around him. His panoramas allow the artist to direct the
viewer’s gaze across the image surface letting narrative and time
unfold. David received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in
1992 and his MFA from Yale University in 1994. He worked for many years as
an assistant professor at Yale University where he alsos directed the
undergraduate photography department. Additionally, he has
taught at Harvard University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston and was the director of the photography department at Cranbrook Art
Academy in Michigan during the 2007/2008 academic year. Currently, he is
an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design. Hilliard
exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally and has won
numerous awards including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim
Fellowship. He is represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery in
Boston, Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta
and the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica. In
2005 a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture.
For more information please visit www.davidhilliard.com
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Keith Carter: Re-inventing the World
Saturday June 19, 8pm
KEITH
CARTER
is by far one of the most inspiring and illuminating artists we have ever
had the honor of working with! Called a "poet of the ordinary"
by the Los Angeles Times,
Carter’s enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, the
US, and Latin America. An internationally recognized photographer and
educator, he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University in
Beaumont, Texas. Eleven monographs of his photographs have been published
including From Uncertain to Blue
1988, The Blue Man 1990, Mojo 1992, Heaven of Animals
1995, Bones 1996, and the
mid-career survey Keith Carter
Photographs - Twenty Five Years 1997. Holding
Venus and Ezekiel’s Horse
were both published in 2000 and his new book Fireflies
in 2009.
His images are included in numerous collections, including the Art
Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman
House, the National
Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
and Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. He is the recipient of the 2009 Texas
Medal of Arts and the Lange-Taylor prize from the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University. He
is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey
Grants and was the subject of an arts profile on the CBS program Sunday
Morning in 1997. To
learn more about Keith please visit www.keithcarterphotographs.com.
AN EVENING WITH CPW's ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
SATURDAY June 26, 7pm
REBECCA MARTINEZ (San
Francisco, CA) will be discussing her latest body of work, preTenders,
which is part of her ongoing exploration into themes of artifice and our
impulse to create illusory situations to fulfill emotional and
psychological needs. To learn more about Rebecca Martinez, please visit www.rebeccamartinez.com.
PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA (Brooklyn, NY) will give a talk about his work
which focuses on the idea of portrait-making as it connects to desire, and
the need to affix understanding between people. He will also share his
current work he has made while here in Woodstock. To learn more about Paul
Mpagi Sepuya, please visit www.paulmpagisepuya.com.
This lecture is free and open to the public.
To learn more about CPW's artist workspace residency program, WOODSTOCK A-I-R, click here.
Michael Mazzeo
CANCELLED
MICHAEL
MAZZEO
is a New York City-based photographer, educator, and gallery owner who is
as comfortable working with digital technology as he is with antiquarian
photographic processes. Mazzeo has been exhibiting his work nationally for
over fifteen years and his work has been featured in a diverse range of
publications including New York Magazine, Esquire, GQ, Photo District
News, and Surface Magazine. Advertising clients have included
Verizon, J&J, Major League Baseball, Guinness, Bass Ale, Amex, and
IBM. Michael has taught photography at Parsons School of Design,
The New School, and has conducted many workshops in the Wet-Plate process.
His gallery, Michael Mazzeo
Gallery, specializes in photography and is
located in Chelsea.
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Dan Burkholder
Friday July 9, 8pm
DAN
BURKHOLDER
has been teaching digital imaging workshops for 14 years at venues
including The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of
Photographic Arts, San Diego; The Royal Photographic Society, Madrid,
Spain; The International Center of Photography, New York; Santa Fe
Workshops; Anderson Ranch and many others. His award-winning book, Making
Digital Negatives for Contact Printing, has become a standard resource
in the fine-art photography community. His new book, The Color of Loss; An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina
(2008, University of Texas Press), documents the flooded interiors of
post-Katrina New Orleans and is the first published monograph of HDR
images. Dan’s workshops are famous for their energy, information, and
humor. You can learn more about Dan at www.danburkholder.com
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Ed Kashi
Saturday July 24, 8pm
In
2002, Kashi and his wife, writer / filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded
Talking Eyes Media. The non-profit company has produced numerous short
films and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues. The
first project resulted in a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured
Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of
America’s Uninsured.
A one-hour documentary film pertaining to this crucial health care
challenge is currently in production.
Henry Horenstein
Saturday July 31, 8pm
Mary Ellen Mark: The World Observed
Saturday August 7, 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
Dawoud Bey: The Portrait
Friday August 13, 8pm
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
Lothar Osterberg
Saturday August 14, 8pm
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
Doug
Beasley: Zen & the Art of Photography
Saturday August 21, 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
Lynn Saville
Saturday August 28, 7pm
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
Connie Imboden
Sat., September 4, 8pm
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
Gerald Slota
Saturday, Sept. 11, 8pm
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
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Constantine Manos
Sat., September 18, 8pm
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.
David Maisel
Saturday September 25, 8pm
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.