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Tom Griggs Mixtape

Why Photography Matters

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/MITP_Thompson.mp3

EPISODE 57 (OCT. '13): Jerry L. Thompson

Jerry L. Thompson is a working photographer who also writes about photography. He worked as Walker Evans’s principal assistant from 1973 to Evans’s death in 1975. He is the author of The Last Years of Walker Evans and Truth and Photography.

Selection of Final Projects

Danika

Megan

Casey

Works in Progress from Candid Project

 Ashley

 Luzina

Megan

FA 380 [M] History of Photography 

Carleton Watkins, Cape Horn near Celilo 1867 albumen silver print

  

Spring 2014

Professor: Dr. Marianne Kinkel

Meetings: MWF 3:10- 4:00PM

This course surveys the social history of photography from its inception to the present.  It provides an overview of photographic processes, theoretical issues that inform photography, and the shifting status of the medium throughout the 19^th and 20^th centuries.  The course is structured chronologically and consists of lectures and class discussions.

 

FA 380 counts as a “writing in the major” or M Course.

SPE NW, Seattle, NOv. 7-10, 2013

The SPEnw conference is less than 3 weeks away (November 7-10), so register now <https://northwest.spenational.org/conference/register/tickets> !  Check out the schedule of fantastic speakers, lodging suggestions and first Thursday galleries on website <https://northwest.spenational.org/conference> !

THE BASICS:
Region: Northwest (Your favorite region!)
Community; Connecting Through Photography
Main location: Art Institute of Seattle
2323 Elliott Ave, Seattle WA 98121
November 7-10, 2013
Seattle, WA
Conference Chair(s): Melinda Hurst Frye & Photo Center NW
Honored Educator: Janet Neuhauser
Featured Speakers: Holly Andres & Amanda Koster
Website: www.northwest.spenational.org <http://www.northwest.spenational.org/>

 <http://www.northwest.spenational.org/>
SPENW 2013 will mainly be located at the Art Institute of Seattle, however will also include a Thursday afternoon visit to the Henry Art Gallery, Friday evening and Sunday morning talks at Photo Center Northwest and Saturday evening at SLIDELUCK Seattle 10/Axis Studios.  The theme is centered on educational, professional, artistic, and social circles, providing opportunity to look at how we document and define community and highlighting the photographic community in our region.  It will November in Seattle, so bring your umbrella!

Join us Thursday, November 7th in Seattle!  Thursday’s conference activities begin in the afternoon with an event hosted by the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle’s University district.  From 1-2pm, the Henry’s director Sylvia Wolf will lead a tour of the Ray Metzker exhibition, followed by a chance to enjoy the Reed Collection until 3pm.  One more time, friends; Sylvia Wolf.  This opportunity is limited to 30 people, so be one of the first to register and sign up in order to participate.  The sign up form can be found on the schedule under Henry Art gallery/ Thursday. <https://northwest.spenational.org/conference/schedule/henry-art-gallery>

Thursday evening will kick off with an artful bang!  First Thursday will begin at the Burnley gallery in the Art Institute of Seattle at 6pm with thesis exhibitions by AiS BFA candidates Hilary Littke and Michael Soike.  Enjoy the opening, and then move on towards Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square area for a self guided tour of numerous gallery openings including work by Lori Nix and Ross Sawyers and more.  An ever growing list of first Thursday exhibitions can be found here <https://northwest.spenational.org/conference/schedule/seattles-first-thursday> , as well as there will be a hard copy guide with map (with bus routes and driving directions) at the Burnley gallery opening.

Friday and Saturday
Friday and Saturday both promise to be riveting with discussions by image makers, and presentations on imagery and ideas within photography, as well as demonstrations and workshops.  Please view the schedule for the complete list and times of all of our speakers <https://northwest.spenational.org/conference/schedule> .   Demonstrations and workshops may require specific files or gear, or may have a sign up for seats available, please check back for that detailed information.

In addition to the presenters listed in the previous SPEnw email, we are also happy to present Rosanne Olson who will be ‘enlightening’ us in the studio with gear and technique relating to light, Daniel Gregory discussing social media in the classroom, and Ron Reeder examining how photographers practice altering reality in imagery, from historic to contemporary examples.  So many great speakers!  Be excited, very excited!


Plan your schedule and click here <https://northwest.spenational.org/conference/register/tickets>  to

"I am at war with the obvious." - William Eggleston

"If you want reality take the bus." - David LaChapelle

"Wheel" - Elliott Hurst Frye

Plants, Performance, and Light

Re-Photo Portrait-Migrant Mother

Works in Progress: Andy Officer

Installation picture of Andy's works in progress

Re-photo Studio Shoot Out takes

FA 381 Curriculum Sept. 17-Oct. 1, 2013

FA 381

Curriculum Sept. 17-Oct. 1, 2012

September 17-Composition

September 19-Composition

September 24, Composition, Due, Images must be emailed to me

dennis.dehart@wsu.edu, 1500px (longest side) 72dpi, jpg, in a zipped file.

September 26-Portrait project

October 1- Portrait project

October 3-Critique, Portrait

Assignment #3: Composition

This assignment is about composition, point of view, and how you frame your photographs.

2 images that activates the edge

2 images that places something small, buy important in the middle

2 images from a child’s point view (or vantage point) of the world

2 images from a high vantage point or looking from above.

Total of 8 Images Due

Assignment #4: The Portrait

Self-portrait, a portrait of an artist produced or created by that artist.

Make 4 self-portraits

Make 2 photos where you are in the photograph

Create 2 photos where you are not in the photo

Make 4 portraits

Create 2 Portraits of a stranger (please make sure to move in closer-move closer by 2 steps)

Make 2 portraits of a friend

Intermediate Curriculum Sept. 17-Oct. 1, 2013

Intermediate

Curriculum Sept. 17-Oct. 1, 2012

September 17-Reworking of word play project, research project, flash assignment

September 19- Reworking of word play project, research project, flash assignment

September 24, works emailed to me: dennis.dehart@wsu.edu, 1500px (longest side) 72dpi, jpg, in a zipped file.

September 26- research project, flash assignment

October 1- research project, flash assignment

October 3-Critique

Assignment 2.1

Building off the word play project, I would like you take your 5 strongest images and build on them. You goal is to create works which dialogue, play, enhance, and ultimately expand the first project in new and interesting directions. I need a total of 12 final images, sized for print (8.5x11 @ 300dpi, Adobe RGB) and web (1500 on the longest, 72 dpi, sRGB). The web images will need to be compressed and sent to me in a folder by no later then September 24. Dennis.dehart@wsu.edu

Assignment #3-Intermediate

Your 2nd assignment is to make memorable pictures using four basic flash techniques. Ten images are due October 3.

1. Turning down the ambient light

You achieve this by underexposing the ambient light by 2-4 stops. Or your flash is 2-4 stops brighter then the background. The more underexposed the ambient light, the darker the background behind the subject.

2. Painting with light

You will need a tripod or a way to place the camera stationary. It will also be helpful to have an off camera sync cord that you can “flash” the image at the end (or the beginning if you don’t)

3. Ghosting

Ghosting occurs when the ambient exposure is close to normal, and the shutter speed used for that normal exposure is slow in relation to the motion of your subject.

4. Stop Action

A flash is an excellent tool for stopping action. Simply set your flash to automatic and use the basic flash techniques such as distance, bounce, diffusion, etc., to stop action.

5. Fill Flash

Meter the scene with your camera or hand held light meter. Underexpose the scene by 1-2 stops.

Tips:

In calculating any exposure for an electronic flash, you need to keep in mind that there are 2 potential light sources that expose your film/digital sensor. One is the ambient light already present and the other is the light emitted by the flash. You should always consider the two.

Always remember to keep your sync speed set for your shutter speed while using a focal plane shutter (usually 1/60)

Remember to check the lights on the back of your flash when exposing. If the light is green (or equivalent) shows, then your flash is charged and ready to expose the scene properly.

You can find examples and technical info in your book Photography, under the chapter on lighting.

Research Project-Due October 3

Choose 10 essays from the Book, Photography Changes Everything

_http://click.si.edu

2-3 Page summary.

ADVANCED

September 17-Still life series, semester project

September 19-Still life series, semester project

September 24, works emailed to me: dennis.dehart@wsu.edu, 1500px (longest side) 72dpi, jpg, in a zipped file.

September 26- semester project

October 1- semester project

October 3-Critique, 15 prints, works in progress, Art and Photography essay

Art and Photography

Need to read the entire book. Choose one section to write on. I need a

5 page essay on one chapter of the book specific. The essay should site works, artists, processes, discuss why the photographs are significant within the context of art, how the art/photographs fit in the broader and context of culture.

clude title of the essay, the section the essay is in, the author, the concept behind the essay including the who, what, where, and why.

Greetings from Scandinavia

Greetings photography students,

My apologies in advanced for missing our first few classes. I am currently in Finland doing an artist residency including working to develop the 2014 Backlight Photography Festival in addition to creating new photography.  Here is a link about the residency: http://www.backlight.fi

Scandinavia has been quite welcoming to me. While in Sweden I had the opportunity to visit the Modern Art Museum and Fotografiska in Stockholm, and the art museum in Umea.

http://fotografiska.eu

http://www.modernamuseet.se/en/stockholm/

http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/our-campuses/umea-arts-campus

Assignment #1: Please take a look at the three website above. I would like you to choose one artist from one of the three institutions and write a three paragraph (12-20 lines) response paper answering the who, what, where, why, and when about the artist. For example their nationality, medium, main medium, themes in the work, etc. I will collect these on Thursday of week 2.

Mapping assignment for FA 385

 Free Association mapping

Use a visual diagram system (bubble graph, line graph, etc.) to create a make

a timeline of your personal creativity. Be prepared to share in class.

Mapping Assignment for Students in FA 385/483

Subjectivity of Memory

Visually create a finished map (using collage, drawing,painting, Photoshop, wire,

string, buttons, flowers,paper, photos, markers, colored pencils, etc. that represent

your hometown/neighborhood/childhood home (choose). The finished piece

needs to be a minimum of 8.5x11. We will scan and or photograph the finished

piece in class. Remember, our goal is not so much accuracy, so much as a subject

map of who you are/where you are from.

Due end of week 2.

What is a map? (Excerpt from Community Mapping ‘zine by Hannah Lewis)

-Maps are powerful.

-Maps have interests or an argument to make.

-Maps are socially constructed.

-Maps are often conventionalized (they become seen as true or real).

-Maps are shaped by (and shape) political, economic, social, and cultural

discourses of the time.

-Maps are a means of communication that many people find appealing.

-Maps come in many forms, such as aboriginal maps of stories, songs, or dreams

showing the convergence of boundaries between realms.

-Maps have different ways of representing time.

-Maps are relational—they represent relationships between spatial or physical

elements, cultural values and abstract ideas. For example: a road map shows the

distance between physical places, but also shows cultural relationships in place

names and abstract ideas, such as wilderness or adventure.

-Maps reflect the map-maker’s worldview: the relationship between the map’s

creator and the topic is important to consider.

http://kingsculturalmap.wordpress.com/mapping-history/

Photography Changes Everything

http://click.si.edu

click! photography changes everything is a collection of original essays, stories and images—contributed by experts from a spectrum of professional worlds and members of the project’s online audience—that explore the many ways photography shapes our culture and our lives. A project of the former Smithsonian Photography Initiative, texts and content for click were commissioned and compiled between 2007-2010. A print version of the project is now available.

Explore how photography changes Who We Are, What We Do, What We See, Where We Go, What We Want and What We Remember.

Art and Photography

Advanced Photography required Reading, Fall 2013

Paid Student Arts Leadership Position Available

I wanted to share this opportunity with you to forward to any interested students.
We have recently re-opened the gallery programmer position and the new deadline to apply is June 28, 2013.
This is a paid student leadership position in the arts with an average time commitment of 12 hours a week.
This is an excellent opportunity for a student interested in running a gallery space.
Programmer responsibilities would include chairing the gallery committee, selecting and curating exhibits, and organizing opening receptions & gallery events.
Students must be undergraduates enrolled full time on the Pullman campus.
Feel free to share this information, I’m happy to answer any questions students may have.

Angel Nava
Arts & Programs Coordinator, Student Involvement
Washington State University
Compton Union Building Room 320 | PO Box 647204 | Pullman, WA 99163-7204
P: 509.335.2313 | F: 509.335.2493 | angel.nava@wsu.edu <mailto:angel.nava@wsu.edu>
www.studentinvolvement.wsu.edu <http://www.studentinvolvement.wsu.edu/> | www.seb.wsu.edu <http://www.seb.wsu.edu/>

  

Last Day of Summer Photo Class

Photo: Mazdak Shadkam

The Palouse Review

The Palouse Review is the online arts and literary journal of the Honors College at Washington State University. Staffed by Honors faculty editors and undergraduate Honors student interns, the journal accepts works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art and photography, music, and digital and other media. Work is original to Honors undergraduates, unique, and interpretative.

http://www.thepalousereview.com

The power of photography: time, mortality and memory

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/interactive/2013/may/19/power-photography-time-mortality-memory?CMP=twt_gu#blake-morrison

The power of photography: time, mortality and memory

We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them? We asked writers and artists, including Grayson Perry and Mary McCartney, to pick a shot they treasure – and tell us the role photography has played in their lives

Art and Craft (To the Best of Our Knowledge)

05.19.2013

It’s Art & Craft week at TTBOOK, but we’re not gluing macaroni to cardboard. 

From the halls of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, to the MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms; from a craft studio on the coast of Maine, to "outsider artists" at the Venice Biennale...

We’re looking at what we make, why it matters, and how it’s shaping our future.

http://www.ttbook.org/book/art-and-craft

The Photobook as Experience with John Mann

Dear friends,

Just wanted to let you know that there are still a few spots left in my course The Photobook as Experience being taught this summer at Penland in North Carolina.

It promises to be an exciting course that will examine a huge amount ( a car load full!)  of important historic and contemporary photobooks, while the students learn to edit, sequence, print, and bind their own

photographic book projects.  This course will have individual and group instruction, and is applicable to all photographic levels.

So, if you know anyone who might be interested, please consider passing this info along.

http://penland.org/classes/summer/summer_session_2.html

Many thanks!

John 

John Mann - The Photographic Book as Experience  June 9-21 Penland School of Crafts

This class is for people who want to expand their photographic work into the book format. We will consider what the linear (or nonlinear!) experience of the book may offer through the possibilities of photographic sequencing and book design. The class will concentrate on individual book projects (students can bring current ones or start fresh) while examining historic and experimental examples. We will explore page design, sequencing, hand bookbinding, and finesse output through advanced inkjet printing techniques. The class will include image making, digital skills, hikes, critiques, and lots of experimentation. All levels. 

Associate professor at Florida State University; exhibitions: Dan Cooney Fine Art (NYC) Ditch Projects (OR) Houston Center for Photography, Jen Bekman Gallery (NYC), Phillips de Pury (London), Conveyor Arts (NYC), Columbia College Chicago.  

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www.rockpapercloud.com

Day 2, Summer Photo

Pinhole Demo Images, Paper Negative, Leonardo Pinhole Camera. In front of the WSU
Art Museum with Martin Stadium in the Background. 

Landscape Architecture Courses, Fall 2013

Alec Soth on Wandering, Storytelling and Robert Adams vs. Weegee

Alec Soth on Wandering, Storytelling and Robert Adams vs. Weegee

Becoming

https://news.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=36265&TypeID=2

Fafa's Photoshop Tutorial

Thanks Rachel for posting this on Facebook.

Upcoming Photography Exhibition in Gallery 3, WSU Fine Art

BECOMING

Four artists contemplate childhood through contemporary fine art photography

Dennis DeHart          www.dennisdehart.com

Rachel Jerome Ferrao    www.racheljeromeferraro.com

Elizabeth Fleming          www.elizabethfleming.com

Ian van Coller   www.ianvancoller.com

Inaugural exhibitions:

Washington State University, Department of Fine Arts, Pullman, Washington.

Gallery 3, Fine Arts Building (Adjacent to the WSU Art Museum)

May 1-25, 2013

   Becoming is a fine art, traveling exhibition focused on childhood through the lens of contemporary photography. Initially an exhibition idea spearheaded by native South African photographer Ian van Coller, Becoming examines childhood through poignant moments of family, humor, intrigue, and drama

   Ian van Coller, a Professor of Photography at Montana State University, will exhibit prints from his series and book “Growing Up in Montana,” which focuses on childhood innocence. Citing the ability to study life through photographs as her primary drive to make pictures, New York-based commercial and art photographer Rachel Jerome Ferraro will be showcasing her personal fine art work in “Family.” Drawing largely from her interest in memory, longing and mystery in the everyday, New Jersey-based photographer Elizabeth Fleming will be presenting work from her project “Life is a Series of Small Moments.” Embracing a philosophical point of view of early childhood education and play, Washington State Fine Art faculty member Dennis DeHart will exhibit photographs from his series “At Play.” 

Summer Photography Course: May 6-31, 2013: Enroll NOW!

F A 367 Special Topics—Photography

Summer 2013
May 6-31, Monday-Friday, 9-11.

There is a summer photography class happening first session. Areas we will be focusing on include:

•Understand DSLR cameras, technically and artistically

•How to use Adobe Lightroom to import, organize, edit and present images

•Use technical tools of photography to observe and extend natural phenomena

•Explore psychological, emotional, and experiential perspectives on place and space.

•View fine art photographers work

•Take field trips to several locations

•Exposure/how to meter/read light

•Photography in regards to Input (make photo) output (print/upload, etc photo)

•Projects synthesizing conceptual, technical, aesthetic, emotion, and design principles

Group multiple project, 385 Class Project, Spring 2013

As always, it will be a great learning experience and a lot of  f u n! 

C o u r s e T h e m e : T h e S u b j e c t i v i t y o f P l a c e a n d S p a c e

The emphasis in the course will be on our psychological, emotional, and experiential

perspectives on place and space. This will include classroom lectures, seminar, technical

demos, reading, and photographing in the field. We will be taking several day trips to

various locations throughout the Palouse region. We will also be discussing issues

centered on how we interpret space and places through culture, memory, physicality, and

aesthetics. Technically, we will be working with different imaging techniques in order to

extend, layer, and expand our perceptions of space. We will be looking at works by a variety of contemporary photographers.

Sampling of Final Projects

Christopher, Digital Imaging 385, Spring 2013

Leah, Advanced Photo, Spring 2013

Andy, 5 13x19 prints, Spring 2013

SPENW Call for Presenters for Seattle Conference

Global Health and the Arts Symposium, UW, Seattle

Ellen Garven's sent this to me. Looks very interesting!

Installation Image of First Year MFA, Jeff Kuure

Jeff Kuure, Video Projection, 54 Video Loops, 2013

Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures Project Video

Trevor Paglen - The Last Pictures Project Video from Creative Time on Vimeo.

Project Information: creativetime.org/projects/the-last-pictures/

Since 1963, more than eight hundred spacecraft have been launched into geosynchronous orbit, forming a man-made ring of satellites around the Earth. These satellites are destined to become one of the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly floating through space long after every trace of humanity has disappeared from the planet.

Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures is a project that marks one of these spacecraft with a visual record of our contemporary historical moment. Paglen spent five years interviewing scientists, artists, anthropologists, and philosophers to consider what such a cultural mark should be. Working with materials scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Paglen developed an artifact designed to last billions of years—an ultra-archival disc, micro-etched with one hundred photographs and encased in a gold-plated shell. In Fall 2012, the communications satellite EchoStar XVI will launch into geostationary orbit with the disc mounted to its anti-earth deck. While the satellite’s broadcast images are as fleeting as the light-speed radio waves they travel on, The Last Pictures will remain in outer space slowly circling the Earth until the Earth itself is no more.

http://vimeo.com/53655801

Fabulous Installation by 1st Year MFA Candidate Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen Ryan, Installation in Gallery 2, WSU

Congrats to Joshua Dennis on Completing his BFA

 Interactive video sculpture

Dr. Marianne Kinkel and Josh 

Douglas Gordon

 http://www.vice.com/art-talk/douglas-gordon

Sample Candid Projects: katie and Nick

 katie, Candid Project, FA 385

Nick, Candid Project, FA 382