Summer 2008

June - August 2008

May 2008

May 15, 2008

May 15, 2008

May - June 2008

May 28 - June 01, 2008

June 13, 2008

June 18 - 21, 2008

2008

June 18 - 21, 2008

July 9 - 10, 2008

July 9 - 11, 2008

July 13-18, 2008

Visual Studies Workshop | Summer Institute 2008

REGISTRATION GOING ON NOW!

Classes begin on June 30th and run through August 1, 2008

One-week intensive courses in artists' books, photography, film, video, historic processes, installation and performance art, media literacy, and much more. Courses are also available for 3 undergraduate or 2 graduate credits through SUNY Brockport.

a full course listing is available online at: http://vsw.org/education/SUMMER08.html

for more information or a full printed catalog email: workshops@vsw.org

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Upcoming PRC Public Programs JUNE - AUGUST:
For locations, admission, registration, and more information, visit www.prcboston.org/programs.htm

ANNUAL PORTFOLIO REVIEW DAY
Sunday, June 22, 10am – 5:30pm

SUMMER PHOTO CAMP
July 14 – August 1

MASTERS WORKSHOP:
Managing a Digital Workflow
with Bruce Hamilton Saturday, June 7

TRAVEL MASTERS WORKSHOP:
Environmental and Narrative Portraiture in Maine
with Jocelyn Lee Saturday, June 28 & Sunday, June 29

MASTERS WORKSHOP:
The Uncanny Landscape
with Barbara Bosworth
Saturday, July 12, Sunday, July 13, & Thursday, July 17

MASTERS WORKSHOP:
Responsibility in Documentary Photography
with Dominic Chavez
Saturday, August 9 & Sunday, August 10, & Friday, August 15

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All events are free and open to the public and will take place at a href="http://www.printcenter.org/" target=_blank>The Print Center unless otherwise noted. To register, contact Eli VandenBerg at evandenberg@printcenter.org or 215.735.6090 x1 Receive a $5 discount when you sign up for membership and a Print Center Series program at the same time!

Currently On View:
The Road Not Taken: Orit Hofshi
Etchings & Drypoints 2005-2008: Bill Scott
The Philadelphia Etchings: Janet Towbin

On view through Saturday, May 17, 2008

SAVE THE DATE
May 31 – August 2, 2008
The Triumph of Democracy: Inside the Studio: Benjamin Edwards

82^nd Annual International Competition: Photography
Juried by Joel M. Smith, Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum

Saturday, May 31
Opening Reception 3:00–5:00pm
Gallery Talk by Juror: 3:30pm

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Autograph ABP in association with The Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics presents:

DOCUMENTING DISAPPEARANCE:
Algeria, state terrorism and the photographic image

Thursday 15 May 2008 6.30 - 8.00
at the New Theatre, LSE, East Building, Houghton Street? Taking as its starting point Omar D's book of photographs, Devoir de mémoire/A Biography of Disappearance, Algeria 1992 -, commissioned and edited by Autograph ABP, this event examines what happens when the apparatus of a state is turned on its own citizens. It asks how we can disseminate the truth about events that are officially denied or obfuscated by the legal system, how to lobby for the application of UN resolutions on forced disappearances and whether human rights organisations can overcome international post-colonial and economic interests. Can imagery be more potent than text in bringing human rights issues into public knowledge? Can we talk of a politics of aesthetics in the context of subjects who have been stripped of their civil existence? How can the invisible be made visible?

With the participation of Omar D (photographer, internationally acclaimed for his portrayal of a way of life fast disappearing in Algeria), Dr Anthony Downey (Programme Director, MA in Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art) and Nassera Dutour (spokesperson for the Collective of the Families of the Disappeared in Algeria). Chaired by Tom O Mara, Deputy Director of Autograph ABP, with an introduction by Professor Conor Gearty of the LSE.

The event will open with a short film, based on the book, by the Chilean filmmaker, Felipe Canales.

Entry to the event is free and no reservation is required. You are advised to arrive 20 minutes beforehand.

Please find biographies of the speakers attached.

Autograph ABP is an international photographic arts agency that addresses issues of cultural identity and human rights. We develop, exhibit and publish the work of photographers from culturally diverse backgrounds and advocate their inclusion in all areas of exhibition, publishing, education and commerce in the visual arts.

Autograph ABP
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA
T +44 (0)20 7729 9200
F +44 (0)20 7739 8748
E info@autograph-abp.co.uk
W http://www.autograph-abp.co.uk

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COLLECTION OF SURREALIST WORKS, JAPANESE BOOKS, AND RARE TREASURES BY ROBERT FRANK AND PAUL STRAND AMONG HIGHLIGHTS OF SWANN GALLERIES’ MAY 15 AUCTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC LITERATURE & PHOTOGRAPHS

New York—On Thursday, May 15, Swann Auction Galleries will conduct their annual spring sale of Photographic Literature & Photographs. This large, two-part auction features many rare and sought-after photo books, and select works by important 20th-century photographers.

The Photographic Literature section is extraordinary and features items from the Library of David Raymond, whose Surrealist photographs were recently acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art. Among the books from this collection are Hans Bellmer’s Les Jeux de la Poupée, with 15 hand-colored silver prints and two small hand-colored cut-outs illustrating the artist’s well-known eroticized doll, one of 142 numbered and signed copies, Paris, 1949 (estimate: $75,000 to $100,000); Claude Cahun’s Aveux non Avenus, with 10 reproductions of photo-collages by Cahun and Marcel Moore, one of 500 numbered copies, Paris, 1930 ($6,000 to $7,000); and George Hugnet’s La Septième Face du Dé, Poèmes-Découpages, with reproductions of 20 photo-collages, several in color, inscribed twice by Hugnet, and accompanied by two prospectuses announcing the sale of the book, Paris, 1936 ($10,000 to $15,000).

Among the rarest and most coveted examples of photographic literature are issues of Alfred Stieglitz’s influential publication Camera Work. This auction offers two issues of the magazine that showcase the work of Paul Strand: Number 48, with six of Strand’s Modernist images of New York, 1916 ($12,000 to $18,000); and Number 49/50, the rare final issue, with 11 photogravures by Strand, in a boards box that displays Strand’s and Stieglitz’s handwritten notations, New York, 1917 ($15,000 to $25,000). These publications were once in the collection of Milton Brown, an art historian and friend of Strand’s.

Also exceedingly rare is a first French edition of Robert Frank’s groundbreaking work Les Américains, signed and inscribed, Paris, 1958, with an original photograph ($15,000 to $20,000).

A rich selection of Japanese first editions includes Shinzo Fukuhara’s Beautiful West Lake, with 24 reproductions of the artist’s artfully serene photographs, Tokyo, 1931 ($2,000 to $2,500); Ken Domon and Shomei Tomatsu’s Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Document 1961, 1961 ($5,000 to $7,500); Ikko Narahara’s profusely illustrated Where Time Has Stopped, Tokyo, 1967 ($1,500 to $2,500); Eikoh Hosoe’s Kamaitachi, with 33 richly printed black-and-white gatefold reproductions of Hosoe’s photographs, Tokyo, 1969 ($3,500 to $4,500); and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Theaters, 2000, with a signed photogravure titled U.A. Walker, New York, 1978 ($2,500 to $3,500)

The Photographs session includes many avant-garde images using solarization techniques by Maurice Tabard, which were gifted by Tabard to a Private European Collector. Among these are Film Solarisée, No. 4, two attached silver prints depicting an enlarged film strip, 1936 ($80,000 to $120,000); Magraitis—Negative Solarisation [Homme a la guitare], silver print from a solarized negative, circa 1928 ($30,000 to $40,000); and Nu solarise, silver print, circa 1960 ($10,000 to $15,000).

Other highlights include Lewis Carroll’s albumen photograph of Annie and Henry Rogers, 1861, which was a gift from Lewis Carroll to Annie Rogers, and then descended through the family ($25,000 to $35,000); Ansel Adams’s magnificent The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, silver print, 1942, printed 1970s ($20,000 to $30,000); Imogen Cunningham’s exquisite botanical study, Tower of Jewels, silver print, 1925, printed 1930s, from the Collection of Alexandra R. Marshall ($60,000 to $90,000); and an archive of 26 vintage silver prints by MIT professor and strobe lighting innovator Harold Edgerton, from the collection of Raymond Stevens, former president of the Cambridge, Mass. consulting firm Arthur D. Little, comprising stop-motion prints of milk drop coronet, white pigeon with wings spread, several images of golf swings, and more, circa 1937 ($20,000 to $30,000).

Photographic Literature at Swann Galleries

In 1952, Swann conducted the first auction devoted to photographic literature in the United States. In the past 50 years interest in out-of-print photo books has grown tremendously, and Swann remains at the forefront of the market, having set world auction records for out-of-print titles by Berenice Abbott, William Bradford, Robert Frank, Paul Graham, Eikoh Hosoe, Ed Ruscha, and many others. We conduct two auctions per year devoted to Photographic Literature & Photographs, which include books with photographs, monographs, surveys, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, histories and technical volumes.

The auction will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 15.

The photographs and books will be on public exhibition at Swann Galleries Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesday, May 13, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Wednesday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

An illustrated catalogue, with information on bidding by mail or fax, is available for $35 from Swann Galleries, Inc., 104 East 25th Street, New York, NY 10010, or online at www.swanngalleries.com.

For further information, and to make advance arrangements to bid by telephone during the auction, please contact Daile Kaplan at (212) 254-4710, extension 21, or via e-mail at dkaplan@swanngalleries.com.

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Thursday, May 22, 6-8 p.m.
Book Launch and Signing
With a conversation between Sylvia Plachy and the 25 Under 25 Photographers
powerHouse Books
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201

Thursday, May 29, 6-8 p.m.
Exhibition Opening, Reception
Gulf and Western Gallery
Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
721 Broadway
New York, New York 10003

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/books/25transitionsbook.html
http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/388

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There are still a few spots left in some of these popular spring and early summer photography workshops.

The Quintessential Flower, May 25 – May 31, with Barbara Ellison
It is rare to find the true essence of flowers justly captured in a photograph. Focusing on texture, color and form, students record the allure of flowers. Barbara demonstrates flower arranging and various studio lighting techniques, incorporating elements of the still life to grasp the delicacy and grace flowers present on a daily basis.

Shooting for Multimedia, June 1 - 7, with Mat Thorne
This course covers story development, digital photography workflow, field recording, interview techniques, and image editing for media artists who wish to explore the rich potential of multimedia storytelling.

Photo I, June 1 - 7, with Sean Harris
The first step to creative photography is developing the skills of composition and perspective in black and white. This course is a comprehensive exploration into the visual aspects of B&W photography, covering point-of-view, framing, the shutter, and the lens’ ability to isolate subject matter through depth of field. Students concentrate on working with their cameras, and Workshops lab staff process their film and make prints for critique.

Documentary Portraits, June 8 - 14, with Debbie Fleming Caffery
This workshop is intended for those who are interested in developing a personal voice and artistry in black-and-white photography through the exploration of the relationships between the photographer, the individual subject and the world at large.

A Day In Our Life ©, June 8 - 14, with B.D. Colen
Photographers do not need to travel to the third world, or even necessarily across town, to find subjects for documentary projects; there are wonderful subjects all around. This workshop helps photographers learn to "see" the documentary possibilities inherent in every day life – in the neighborhood bookstore, the laundromat down the block, within their own family.

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The f295 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes takes place in Pittsburgh PA USA from May 28 - June 1, 2008 with lectures, workshops and round-table discussions. The f295 Symposium is an in-depth exploration of the many different & alternative ways in which we can make photographs, and a look at how contemporary culture shapes the choices we make. It’s the only event of its kind that exclusively features artists and photographers talking about their work and the ideas that shape what they’re doing!

The agenda:
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
9am-5pm: Symposium Kick-off Workshop: Toy Camera Modern Tintype Workshop with Jill Enfield

Thursday, May 29, 2008
3-9pm: Symposium Opening Reception and portfolio/work sharing. Bring your images, cameras and other alternative photography materials to share with the other presenters and attendees!

Time TBA: A Special Opening Reception Artists’ Talk with France Scully Osterman
Serendipity and Exquisite Manipulation

Friday, May 30, 2008
9am - 6pm: Lectures and round-table discussion presented in association with Center for Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon Speakers include:
* Martha Casanave
* Jill Enfield
* Jesseca Ferguson
* Robert Hirsch
* Jerry Spagnoli
* Keith Taylor
* Ilan Wolff

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Workshops presented in association with Pittsburgh Filmmakers:
Calotype Paper Negatives (Dry Process) w/ Alan Greene
Chrysotype and Cyanotype ‘Rex’ Workshop w/ Terry King
Daguerreotype Workshop with Mike Robinson
Gum Bichromate Printing w/ Scott McMahon
The Magic of the Photogram and Camera Obscura w/ Ilan Wolff Planning, Organizing, and Staging a Successful Exhibition w/ Jesseca Ferguson
It’s All Positive! The Wet-Plate Collodion Process Two Day Workshop w/ France Scully Osterman

2-4pm: Alternative Focus Exhibition Opening Reception at Silver Eye Center for Photography
7-11pm: f295 Exhibition: Opening Reception at 707 Penn Gallery info TBA

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Workshops presented in association with Pittsburgh Filmmakers:
Collodion Albumen-Platinum Printing w/ Terry King
An Artistic Approach to Digital Negatives w/ Jill Enfield
Daguerreotype Workshop w/ Mike Robinson
Developed-Out Salt-Printing w/ Alan Greene
The Magic of the Photogram and Camera Obscura w/ Ilan Wolff (2 day)
It’s All Positive! The Wet-Plate Collodion Process Two Day Workshop w/ France Scully Osterman

9am-12pm: Lensless/alternative photography walk-about w/ Jo Babcock and Tom Persinger Registration opening soon!

3-7:00pm: Symposium Closing Reception
Schatz Dining Room, Carnegie Mellon University

We'll also have a few select vendors on hand to talk about their latest products..... Exhibitors to include: B&H Photo, Fujifilm, InkPress Paper, Lensbabies, PinholeBlender, WithoutLenses with more TBA!

Many of the workshops only have a few spaces remaining. And we have limited seating for the lectures and discussion. If you're thinking of coming register soon.

Complete registration information here: www.f295.org/symposium2008

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"Foot in the Door: Tips for Submitting Your Work" is an En Foco Workshop for emerging photographers, facilitated by Marisol Dííaz. Topics covered include: the importance of understanding submission requirements; technical quality of imagery; what constitutes a cohesive series; artist statements; support materials; reviewer's pet peeves (from an informal survey).

Location: El Taller Boricua Gallery
Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Ave at 106th, New York, NY 10029

Date: June 13th
Time: 6-8pm
Admission: FREE!!
RSVP: info@enfoco.org

On view at this location is En Foco New Works #11 Featuring Kesha Bruce, Adriana Katzew, Donald Daedalus, Charlie Grosso, Esther Hidalgo, Wanda Acosta and Myra Greene - Juror: Melissa Harris, Aperture Magazine

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Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism/p>

60 PHOTOGRAFER - ABOUT 1300 PICTURES + 7 LECTURES OF FAMOUS PHOTOGRAFERS + GREAT PHOTOTECHNIC-EXHIBITION!

18th -21st of June 2008 + 22st of June 2008 in Hannover

Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism: The program is ready!

The feedback is huge and the quality astonishing: In total 437 young photographers and photo students applied from all over the world with their reportages, essays and series for the exhibition program of the first Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism. The festival takes place from the 18th to the 21st of June on the Expo area in Hannover. Amongst the photographers are nine winners of the World-Press-Award and many more prize-winning photographers.

(You can find more information in newsletter Nr.4)

You will find details of the festival program, a gallery of the exhibiting photographers and much more information, for example about cheap accommodation, under www.fotofestival-hannover.de.

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Stephen Johnson Photography is offering digital photography workshops. For a complete list of workshops and services offered, please visit: http://www.sjphoto.com/workshops.html. The following is a list of our scheduled workshops:

2008 Schedule

Highway One and the San Mateo Coast (+ Pt. Lobos)
http://www.sjphoto.com/digital-photo-wksp-land-smcoast2008.html
March 15-16 (17), 2008

Professional Image Editing
http://www.sjphoto.com/image-editing.html
March 27-30, 2008

San Francisco Digitally (+ Alcatraz Option)
http://www.sjphoto.com/digital-photo-wksp-sanfran.html
April 5-6 (7), 2008

Point Lobos and Carmel
http://www.sjphoto.com/digital-photo-wksp-land-ptlobos2008.html
May 3-5, 2008

Photoshop for Photographers: The Basics - with Sean Duggan
http://www.seanduggan.com/training/ps_basics_sj.html
May 3-4, 2008

Digital Black and White Photography Hands-on
http://www.sjphoto.com/digital-black-white.html
May 15-18, 2008

Fine Art Digital Printing Hands-On
http://www.sjphoto.com/print_wkspHO_frameset.html
May 24-27, 2008

Ireland's Spectacular West Coast
http://www.sjphoto.com/digital-photo-wksp-ireland.html
June 20-30, 2008

The Digital Landscape. Maine Media Workshops
http://www.theworkshops.com/catalog/courses/index.asp?CourseID=2757&SchoolID=20
August 3-8, 2008

Fine Art Digital Printing. Maine Media Workshops
http://www.theworkshops.com/catalog/courses/index.asp?CourseID=2843&SchoolID=20
August 10-16, 2008

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From 18 - 21 June 2008 the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover, organizes in cooperation with the German organization of photojournalists FreeLens the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalissts on the Expo area in Hannover. Photography students and young professionals from all over the world will show their reportages and series in over 60 exhibitions.

We would be pleased to invite you to this event. The festival is, with its numerous exhibitions and its attractive program with many international stars of the photojournalism branch, a great opportunity to get to know young talents and it is a good repository for interesting reportages. Our bistro, located in the atrium of the DesignCenter, is going to be the meeting point of the photojournalism scene and you will have the possibility to get in contact with photographers.

For more information, please see the newsletter (PDF). You can also visit our webpage www.fotofestival-hannover.de.

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Save the Date for the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit 2008!

Mark your calendars for July 9-10, 2008, when Microsoft will once again host the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit. This event has been an incredible success, attended by the top photographers and industry leaders. It provides an opportunity to engage in discussions about the top issues affecting the industry, with a focus on identifying how we can work together to create solutions.

We are building on the success of the last two years, and making changes based on feedback from attendees, ensuring this will be the best Summit ever. You won’t want to miss it, and we’re looking forward to seeing you there.

Mark your calendar now, and look for more details in early May with your invitation to register for the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit 2008.

See you in July!

Microsoft Pro Photo Summit Team

www.microsoft.com/prophoto

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The general goal of this workshop is to help all get a better and deeper understanding of photography, from the very moment when a photograph originated in the photographer’s mind to its reception by an audience with all the esthetic, ethical, cultural, and socio-political issues at play.

Bruno Chalifour has been coming to and writing about the festival for over 15 years. For years he has observed reactions in the audience of the festival and decided to design this workshop with several objectives in mind:
1-help visitors, amateurs and professionals alike, understand and appreciate the works that are shown, as well as the decisions made by the curators and the festival.
2-offer perspectives, criteria, and a framework to assess photographs, and exhibitions.
3-provide context to the images based on his knowledge of the history of photography, the state of contemporary art scene, the festival itself so that his students learn about the history of photography through their experiences of the festival.
4-use the opportunities provided by the festival (the number and variety of works exhibited, the night projections, the presence of world-renowned photographers, curators, historians, critics) to expand one’s understanding and appreciation of photography as a major art form and means of communication in our time.
5-develop a vocabulary, and concepts specific to the field of art criticism.

The workshops will address:
-The challenges met in the making of photographs that matter, as well as in the various ways of showing them (magazine, book, exhibition, web)
-The parallel histories of American and European photography and their impact on the now global scene of fine art photography
-The specific themes and types of photography displayed this year during the festival.

This workshop is designed for all audiences and levels: the general public, photographers (amateurs or professionals), teachers, critics, all who want to build skill and knowledge, and discuss the medium. Students are invited to bring their own portfolios for discussion by the group.

For more information go to http://www.stagephoto-arles.com/index.php/page/en/stage/39.

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Weeklong Retreat July 13-18
Digital Nature Photography: A Retreat
Location: Cloquet Forestry Center
Limited to 16

Digital photography allows a photographer to expand parameters and convey visions that were once technically impossible. However, to optimize their digital photographs, photographers must learn new ways of making images.

Working with nature as a subject, this retreat offers serious amateurs and professionals an intensive, step-by-step guide to the best methods of capturing—and then transforming—information to realize a personal vision.

Each day, early morning (5 a.m.) field sessions will be followed by a full-day of lectures, computer-work sessions, and discussions that often last into the evening.

By week's end, participants will emerge with a broad understanding of image management; how to extend the dynamic range and depth of field using multiple captures; how to judge the optimum exposure for digital captures; and how, starting with a RAW file, to edit work in a non-destructive manner.

Participants must provide their own digital SLR camera with interchangeable lenses; tripod; computer with Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3 (Elements is not acceptable); and a means of transferring camera RAW images into Photoshop. Participants must have solid working knowledge of their cameras and Photoshop, and be comfortable walking two miles over rough terrain. Because of the long hours, it is recommended that participants stay at the Cloquet Forestry Center.

Craig Blacklock is one of the United States' premier landscape photographers and his work has been included in Orion, Audubon, Newsweek, Outdoor Photographer, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, National Wildlife, Reader's Digest, and Smithsonian, as well as in numerous books and calendars. In addition, his photographs are held in collections such as the Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth; the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Blacklock's books, among them The Lake Superior Images and A Voice Within: The Lake Superior Nudes, have received numerous awards, including a Minnesota Book Award, National Publishers Freedom Award, and an Independent Publishers Book Award. His latest book and film, Minnesota's North Shore, was released in 2007. A teacher since 1982, Blacklock has taught workshops as part of FotoFusion and the Palm Beach Photographic Workshops in Florida, and Madeline Island School of the Arts in Wisconsin. His business, Blacklock Photography Galleries, specializes in large-format, fine art photography. To learn more, visit www.blacklockgallery.com

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