Upcoming Events, Exhibitions, Lectures, & Workshops
Here’s a list of my current and upcoming activities and events…
Lecture: 21st Century Photography
July 16, 2009 6-7:00pm| Carnegie Museum of Art, CMA Theater | Pittsburgh, PA USA
Early Photography: New Uses for Old Techniques
Daguerreotypes, tintypes, and ambrotypes—what are they, and how did they evolve? Learn about some the earliest photographic processes and the way they’re used today in this discussion with Mark Johnson, past president of the Daguerreian Society; John Fobes, artist and ambrotype specialist; and Tom Persinger, photographer, writer, curator, Director of F295, and organizer of the F295 Symposium on 21st Century Photography. After the lecture, look at examples of these classic techniques in the exhibition Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People.
Workshop: Handmade Large Format Photography
July 31 - August 1, 2009 | Photographers Formulay | Condon, MT
Join us for this exciting week long workshop in which we’ll use the most readily available materials to create fully functional lenses and large format cameras (which use modern film holders). We’ll use inexpensive lithography film and a special developer to make negatives that have a full tonal range but cost a fraction of the price of conventional 8×10” film. With these negatives we’ll explore the wonder and beauty of the toned cyanotype print. Armed with a variety of recipes we’ll transform the standard cyanotype prussian blue to wide range of tones varying from dark blue and black to purple and brown! Once we get our gear built and ‘dialed-in’ we’ll begin our 19th century large format safari in the great Montana landscape. We’ll visit an authentic ghost town, some marvelous rivers and waterfalls, a wonderful old lodge, and culminate the week with a special trip to Glacier National Park for the spectacular peaks of the great Rocky Mountains!
Event: F295 Seminar on 21st Century Photography
August 29, 2009 | San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA USA
August 2009 brings F295’s first west coast event. F295 has partnered with San Francisco State University to bring you a free seminar on 21st Century Photography. This will follow the same format as the NYC Seminar: a day long event in which photographers talk about their work and the reasons behind it. We’ll be featuring the voices of: Jo Babcock, Martha Casanave, Kerik Kouklis, Chris McCaw, and Tom Persinger with others TBA!
The event is free but space is limited. If you’d like to attend you must preregister. Registration will open in early summer 2009. More Information Soon!
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April 27, 2009 | Pittsburgh Photo Section (meeting at Mt. Lebanon Public Library) | Pittsburgh PA USA
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