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F295 Symposium Workshop Update!


Daguerreotype by Jerry Spagnoli

We’re only a short time into the registration period for the 2012 F295 Symposium and our workshops are already selling out! Here’s current status on our different offerings

Calotype Paper Negative workshop with Dan Estabrook – 1 space remaining!

Daguerreotype workshop with Jerry Spagnoli – 2 spaces remaining!

Mordançage workshop with Elizabeth Opalenik – 5 spaces remaining!

Multi-Color Gum workshop with Brian Taylor – SOLD OUT!

If you’re interested in a workshop sign up soon, these spaces will fill quickly!

Register here >>

2012 F295 Schedule of Events!

We’re rolling out the 2012 F295 Symposium website all week! Every day we’re announcing new speakers on our Facebook and email list. Join either or both of those for continual updates!

We have an exciting program planned this year and are looking forward to having you with us!

Read more and register here >>

June 7, 2012
4:30-9:00pm Thursday evening: Opening Reception at Carnegie-Mellon University
Featuring open portfolio sharing, networking, industry trade show, and an opening evening artists talk!

June 8 , 2012
9am-5pm: Lectures and Round Table discussion at The Carnegie Museum of Art.
Join us as we hear a variety of practicing 21st century photographers share information about their work and the thoughts, ideas, and rationale behind it.

June 9, 2012
9am-5pm: Hands-on Workshops co-presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers
This years workshops include: Calotype with Dan Estabrook Daguerreotype with Jerry Spagnoli, Multi-Color Gum with Brian Taylor and Mordançage with Elizabeth Opalenik!

6-9pm:  A special program at the Carnegie Museum of Art: Light, Time, and The Apparatus: From Pictorialism to 21st Century Photography

June 10, 2012
9am-5pm: Continued Hands-on Workshops co-presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers
This years workshops include: Calotype with Dan Estabrook Daguerreotype with Jerry Spagnoli, Multi-Color Gum with Brian Taylor and Mordançage with Elizabeth Opalenik!

 

Read more and register here >>

Photo Tapas in Arizona!

There’s a great event all this week taking place in Phoenix. Below is the press release. If you’re in the area please consider joining us! Some events are free, others have a fee. All is detailed below. We hope to see you there!

 

PhotoTapas, a fine art photography event, celebrates the medium’s past, present, and future by offering the community a sampling of photo-related activities including exhibitions, lectures, seminars, demonstrations and portfolio sharing. Sponsored by Art Intersection, Jeremy Rowe Vintage Photography, Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, and Tilt Gallery.


Tuesday, February 14
6-9pm: Northlight Gallery at ASU, Matthews Hall
Opening reception the exhibition, Manifest Destiny
FREE

Wednesday, February 15
7pm: ASU Main Campus
Conversation about Manifest Destiny
FREE

Thursday, February 16
7pm: Art Intersection , Gilbert
Mike Lundgren, Richard Laugharn, Christopher Colville: The Sonoran Desert Re-viewed-A Conversation
FREE

Friday, February 17
6-10pm: Tilt Gallery, Phoenix
Artist Reception for The Poet’s Love, salt prints by Tom Persinger
FREE

Saturday, February 18
8:30am-8:30pm Art Intersection, Gilbert

8:30-9:00am: Registration with coffee and muffins

9:00-10:15am: Taking Note: A Method for Writer’s and Photographers with Mark Haunschild

10:30am-11:30pm: Demonstration: Salt printing, Tom Persinger

11:30-1:00pm: Lunch on own

1:15-2:15pm: Lecture, Jeremy Rowe: “Brass, Glass and Collodion: Stereographs of Territorial Arizona”

2:35-3:45pm: Demonstration: Wet Plate Collodion Tin –Type, David Adams

4:00-5:00pm: Show and Tell- Stan Klimek, master platinum/palladium printer for 21 Century Books will bring his portfolios to view

5:00-6:30pm Tapas, Sangria and Conversation

6:30pm-8:30pm: Portfolio Sharing, participants can bring their work to share. Reserve a table space (limited to 30 photographers)

COST: General 65.00, Student & Member  45.00, 80.00 at the door

 

Sunday, February 19

Art Intersection
9:30am-1pm A Career with your Camera in Today’s Diverse Marketplace:Patrick Donehue and Mary Virginia Swanson

COST: 50.00 General, 40.00 Members

 

2012 F295 Symposium Call for Papers!

Continued Explorations of a 21st Century Photography
June 7-10, 2012 | Pittsburgh PA USA

In 2011 F295 had its first call for papers and the response was spectacular. From the many entries submitted we were pleased to accept four. We heard outstanding presentations from Rebecca Sexton Larson, Erin Malone, Jessica Somers, and MaryDorsey Wanless. This year we’d like to hear from you!

We will be entertaining submissions until March 1, 2012. The only criteria for submitting is that you’ve created a body of compelling meaningful work that has a method of production that incorporates elements that go beyond simple ink or silver on paper. It is not obligatory that you have attended F295 before or taken a workshop (as it was last year) though preference will be given to those with an F295 experience that has informed their work.

The Guidelines for Submission
Please send an email which includes:
*Name, email, and location
*A short statement ( *3-5 lo-resolution images (no greater than 600pixels H/W, at 72dpi)
*A link to your website (if possible)
*A short bio & your CV
*If you have attended an F295 event(s) please let us know which/when and how it may have influenced your work.

Deadline: March 1, 2012

The event takes place at the Carnegie Museum of Art June 7-10, 2012 in Pittsburgh PA USA. Email your entry no later than March 1, 2012 to studio@f295.org

The conference website will be live this week!

Photographic Biographies now online!

Editors Note: we recently received the press release below from F295 member Robert Hirsch. This joint venture between Focal Press and Alan Griffiths fabulous website, Luminous Lint, is a wonderful addition to the canon of reliable and trustworthy online photographic content! It’s great to see this project come to fruition! Many thanks to all who were involved to make this happen.

Press Release – December 9, 2011
Focal Press and Luminous-Lint Announce a Joint Photography Biographical Project

In collaboration with Elsevier’s Focal Press and the assistance of Robert Hirsch, Luminous-Lint has obtained permission to include hundreds of biographies from The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th Edition*, on its website. These biographies will enrich the content on www.Luminous-Lint.com, which are supported by the wide range of materials already online.

An example of Robert Frank’s information may be seen here >>

Special thanks to the staff of Focal Press for embracing this project and to Robert Hirsch, Garie Waltzer, and Ken White for making their contributions available to the photo-history community.

For more information email Alan Griffiths at Luminous Lint or Kate Iannotti at Focal Press.

*If you don’t have the Focal Press Encyclopedia of Photography F295 highly suggests picking one up. While it’s not the most inexpensive book you’ll ever purchase it may be one of the most complete. As with all things you get what you pay for and with the Encyclopedia you get an awful lot. Check it out here >>

Happy Holidays!

As 2011 draws to a close F295* would like to thank all of you for your interest, participation, and support over the past 12 months!

F295 exists because of you and the great work you’re doing. We hope that you will keep pushing the photographic envelope in 2012 and continue defining the new 21st Century Photographic paradigm.

We wish each of you Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for peace, love, and happiness in the New Year!

If you value the work F295 is doing please consider becoming a supporting member >>

Exhibition Announcement: Object to Image


damage, Lith Print by Kevin Logghe, © 2011

Object to Image: New Work by Kevin Logghe*
2-D and 3-D Presentations of Handcrafted Photography at Through This Lens Gallery, the Southeast’s Premier Gallery dedicated exclusively to photography located at 303 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC, phone: 919-687-0250

Show is up through January 7, 2012

*Named “Top Pick” by The Independent Weekly
*Named “Best Bet” by the Durham News

Read about it in The Sun-Herald Newspapers >>

A Simplified Three Color Gum Curve

As we discussed in this piece on the color ratio system, creating custom curves can be as complicated as you’d like to make it.

In my experience, issues such as these derail many from historic process experimentation and practice. It’s easy to get bogged down in the complexities and vagaries of the minutiae and become paralyzed! To that end, F295 has been trying to simplify some of the initial obstacles and provide tools that help practitioners achieve immediate success. Some may scoff at their simplicity, but I’ve tested them and they work.

I wanted to pass along this simple curve for three color gum printing. It’s derived from Christina Z. Anderson’s method (as outlined in this article) and will make the negatives more suitable (flatter) for the gum process. There are other more precise calibration methods available, but this will get you up and running immediately and help you create a satisfactory print!

I suggest you try this, make a few prints and realize the fun of success and then possibly consider recalibrating your process with a more precise curve/method. You may find that this curve will give you everything you need.

Download the curve here >>

If you’re looking for a good overview regarding the Gum Bichromate process check out the inexpensive, lab ready, laminated F295 Quick Reference Card at Freestyle Photographic!


 
 
 
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