Photographer Anne Dunn writes:
Hey all you porn fans,
There’s an erotic art show in Catskill [NY, US] next Saturday at Wilder Gallery (395 Main Street) from 5-9PM. I will be showing some racy photos amongst some other people’s kinky art.
So come on by and get cho’self a piece.
(DJ to spin until wine is done…)
Work from over 30 artists will be on display covering a wide variety of media from photography to oil, acrylics, quilting, and installation. Must be 18 or older.
Photographer Matt Callow writes:
The pinhole workshop I ran last summer for teens was such a success that the library has invited me back to run another one, though this time for adults.
This time, instead of using paint cans and paper negatives, we’re going to make our cameras using matchboxes and 35mm film (based on Alspix‘s funky design). So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been trialing a few prototypes, testing out a few ideas, and taking lots of pictures of myself with bedhead and bathrobe.
For anyone who’s local and interested, the workshop will be at the AADL’s Malletts Creek branch, Saturday Feb 17th, 2007, 12–3pm. More details here.
Callow is an accomplished photographer whose work you can see at his Web site, MattCallow.com, and on Flickr.
Back by popular demand! If you want photography stripped down to its absolute basics, then pinhole is it. Jim Cherry will explore the field whose enthusiasts have included luminaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Kepler. Come down and see why you don’t need a lens to make a stunning image!
Freestyle Photographic and the Creative Center for Photography are pleased to kick off their 2007 Saturday Lecture Series at the Creative Center For Photography in Hollywood, CA. This series is a collection of free seminars, covering a variety of interesting and informative topics for creative photographers. The lectures will take place every other Saturday at 1:00 PM, beginning on February 10, 2007.
Full details about the Saturday Lecture Series can be found here on Freestyle’s web site.
[I’m leaving the following marketing blurb in because it’s informational and Freestyle do actually rock. —Nicolai]
Established in 1946, Freestyle Photographic Supplies is a leading international retail, mail order and internet provider of cameras, photographic equipment and supplies, as well as the exclusive United States distributor of Kentmere black and white photographic papers, Foma black and white photographic papers and films, Efke black and white films, Varycon/EMAKS black and white papers, Fotospeed specialty chemicals, Holga cameras and accessories, Cachet archival storage boxes, Image Mechanics fluid mount trays, LegacyPro accessories and Rollei/Maco black and white films.
The talk starts at 1:00pm on Saturday, 21 April, 2007, at Freestyle Photographic, 5124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, US.
The whole lecture series looks really good, with other talks on Holgas and other plastic cameras, platinum and palladium printing, and Polaroid manipulations. Check out the full line-up.
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The Hancock County Cultural Network’s February Brown-Bag Lunch series will feature Anne-Claude Cotty of Stonington, who will present a talk titled "Extolling Pinhole Cameras in a Digital Age" at the Blue Hill Library on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at noon. As an active member of many community cultural organizations, Cotty will also address the artist’s responsibility to society in general.
Cotty produces prints, artist books, experimental photography and, recently, jewelry using photographic images. She will describe the process of making rudimentary cameras with household materials and the soft-focus and inadvertent effects they can capture on film. What many will recall as a science project in fourth grade, she elevates to a magical tool in creating multi-layered, poetic images. And the photographic darkroom, replaced by so many photographers with computers and printers, remains a vital place for making photographs by hand.
A studio artist and educator for over 30 years, Cotty received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta. She maintains her own gallery in Stonington and offers workshops for all ages in printmaking and pinhole cameras in her studios. She is also an art teacher on Isle au Haut and Frenchboro. Her work has been widely published and exhibited throughout this country and abroad and can be found in many collections including the Portland Museum of Art. She is the former executive director of the Hancock County Cultural Network.
The Brown-Bag Lunch is free and participants are encouraged to bring their lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. The Brown-Bag Lunch series is sponsored in part by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council.
The talk starts at 12:00pm at the Blue Hill Library, 5 Parker Point Rd., Blue Hill, ME, US.
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Nature Without Glass is the first exhibition of fine art photography by Mark Stetler, a resident of Olive, New York and a successful commercial photographer in Manhattan. While his NYC career has focused on fashion and portraiture, this new body of personal work builds on his affinity with nature and combines it with his fascination with the pinhole camera to presents his own unique viewpoint.
Mark hikes into the woods or along the coast or in the mountains near his home and returns with images that reveal hidden places and give us a glimpse of a rare moment in time, not typically seen. The enigmatic color landscapes are shot "without glass", using a pinhole camera to capture those mysterious moments just before dawn or the obscured vision in stormy weather.
Mark Stetler moved to New York in 1994 to pursue his life long interest in photography and worked as an assistant to Richard Avedon, which further fueled his interest in the photography industry and in portraiture, in particular. Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through his recognition as a Mamiya Emerging Photographer and through publication of his images of September 11, shot from the rooftop of his apartment near the World Trade Center.
The show runs through February 12, 2007 at Galerie BMG, 12 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock, NY, US. Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm, or other times by appointment.
As I lived in Woodstock and the surrounding area for years, I’m excited to see his view of a landscape I know well.
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This 10 week class at ICP in New York City, meets on Fridays from 10am to 1pm starting on February 2nd. It is called Digital Alternatives, but we will be going back and forth between the digital lab and the alternative lab, using all aspects of photography to create work. Paper negatives, digital negatives, historical techniques, transfers and decals so that we can combine photographic skills from the beginnings of photography up to the 21st century. Participants with basic Photoshop skills will learn how to optimize their files using various manipulation techniques. Demonstrations will address subjects from scanning and image editing to the production of the final enlarged digital negative.
The workshops run Fridays 10:00am – 1:00pm, 2 Feb – 6 April, 2007 at the International Center for Photography, New York, NY, US.
About Jill:
Jill Enfield, one of this country’s most experienced and respected handcoloring artists; is a fine art, editorial and commercial photographer. She has taught handcoloring and non-silver techniques at Parsons School of Design, The New School, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York University, Long Island University and the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as in workshops throughout the USA and Europe. Her work is in the collections of RJ Reynolds Co., Southeast Banking Corp., Museo de Arte Moderno de Mediellin in Colombia, The Boca Raton Museum of Art and Hotel Parisi in LaJolla.Jill’s book on non-silver techniques titled: Photo Imaging: A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes published by Watson-Guptill in November 2002, won the Golden Light Award for Best Technical Book of 2002 through the Maine Photographic Workshop and is already in its second printing.
Nikon has honored Jill by featuring her on their web-site as a "Legend Behind The Lens" photographer as well as in their Full-Line product guide and an upcoming issue of Nikon World. Jill has also appeared on The Today Show Weekend Edition, New York One and The CBS Saturday Morning Edition as a spokesperson for www.takegreatpictures.com on several occasions.
Thanks to Tom Persinger of f295 for the heads up!
JOINTS: the photographs of Laura Kicey and Dustin Fenstermacher.
The show runs 4 February – 4 March, 2007 at Mugshots Coffehouse and Café, 21st and Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA, US.
Opening reception Thursday, 8 February, 6:30–8:30pm. Light fare will be provided.
For more information, email jointsmugshots@gmail.com.
"Black and white, infrared, pinhole, and IR pinhole photos depicting landscapes, portraits, and urban forms."
The show runs 3 January – 28 February 2007 at the Paine Branchof the Onondaga County Library, 113 Nichols Ave, Syracuse, NY, US.
Hours are Mon–Tues 8:30–8:30 and Wed–Sat 9:00–5:00.
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Master of nature abstracts (and all-around photographic badass) Laura A. Watt is having another show! It runs 15 Jan – 26 Feb, 2007, at the new gallery space at Black and Blue Tattoo, 381 Guerrero (at 16th), San Fransisco, CA, US. The shop is open 12–7 every day.
If you’re in the area, come to the opening reception Sunday, 21 Jan, 6:30–9:30pm. If you’re not, check out the online preview of the work being shown.
f295 press release:
f295 is pleased to announce, as part of the 2007 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes the list of speakers and topics for the lecture and round-table session to take place 27 April 2007. This event is being held in conjunction with The Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University as part of The Perspectives on the Arts in Society Series.
Date: 27 April 2007
Time: 9am – 5pm (1.5 hour break for lunch)
Place: McConomy Auditorium in the University Center at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySPEAKERS & TOPICS:
Tom Persinger – Introduction: ‘Simple’ Methods in a Complex World
Jo Babcock – Contemporary Pinhole Photography and it’s Place in Photographic History
Craig Barber – Photography and Memory
Barbara Ess – Reality, Representation and Lo-Fi Image-Making
Alan Greene – Steps Leading to ‘Primitive Photography’
Patricia Katchur – Back to Basics: The Renaissance in Alternative and Historic Photographic Processes
Terry King, FRPS – Retro-Invention: A Revolution in Gold and Blue
Mike Robinson – The Daguerreotype: Past, Present & PerfectMore information may be found on the symposium website:
http://www.f295.org/wordpress/?page_id=26All inquires may be directed to:
Tom Persinger
tp@f295.org