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:: SUMMER SESSION : PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
The summer program is designed for beginners, amateurs and photography students alike. The various workshops deal with all the major aspects of modern photography: theory and practice, from past to present.
Students may enroll for the full summer program or choose one or several workshops, depending on their own interests.
:: Courses:
-> Museum and Gallery Visits
-> Critical Studies and Aesthetics
-> Black & White Printing - the Stop-System
-> Advanced Black & White Printing
-> Introduction to Studio Photography
-> Commercial Photography
-> Portrait Photography
-> The Nude
-> Computer Lab
-> Photojournalism
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These 2 workshops are not part of the full summer program:
-> In the Steps of Talbot, Herschel and Bayard
-> The Beginnings of Photography: Heliography and Physautotype
-> Museum and Gallery Visits
- 5 days - 15h
- July 21 – 25, 2008
 © Gorkem Unal |
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Combining lectures with visits to museums and galleries, this workshop aims at giving an overview of the history of photography from its origins in France to the present day. It also introduces the participants to the major technical innovations from the traditional processes to the current trends.
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-> Critical Studies and Aesthetics
- 4 days - 15h
- July 15 – 18, 2008
© Annamaria Dall'anese
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In the first part of the workshop, participants develop their visual awareness by analyzing the composition of pictures by well-established photographers. In the second part, moving from the analysis of light, space and object-reality to practical work, the participants experiment with their own visual creativity and shooting techniques. Participants are asked to bring their own cameras.
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-> Black & White Printing : the Stop-System
- 5 days - 15h
- June 23 – 27, 2008
© Iris Hrasovec |
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An introduction to black & white darkroom techniques, this workshop focuses on the Stop System, a visual method invented at Spéos, to understand and control the printing process. The course also covers film exposure and development, the use of different photo papers, as well as print retouching. By the end of the week, each participant will be able to judge a print’s quality and to produce good black & white pictures.
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-> Advanced Black and White Printing
- 5 days - 15h
- June 30 – July 4, 2008
© Danielle Maheu |
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This course is open to participants with previous black & white darkroom experience (for example after the workshop Black and White Printing – the Stop System). Working from their own film negatives, participants explore advanced printing techniques, especially for fine arts prints.
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-> Introduction to Studio Photography
- 5 days - 15h
- June 23 – 27, 2008 / July 15 – 18, 2008
© Nikolai Wiezorek |
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In this practically oriented workshop, participants are introduced to the techniques of studio photography: tungsten lighting, electronic flashes, lighting and shooting with large format cameras. The course begins with a recapitulation of black & white darkroom techniques and their direct application to studio photography, and then turns to intensive studio practice.
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-> Commercial Photography
- 5 days - 15h
- July 7 – 11, 2008 / July 28 – August 1, 2008
© Natalia KhengJu |
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This workshop is open to participants with previous studio experience (for example after the workshop Introduction to Studio). In the first half of the course, participants are shooting basic catalog photos (pack-shots). In the second half, they approach stylistically more complex commercial photos. Both traditional and digital cameras will be used.
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-> Portrait Photography
- 5 days - 15h
- June 30 – July 4, 2008 / July 21 – 25, 2008
© Christian Boulliaux |
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In this course, participants work at developing their self-expression by shooting portraits that reflect their own sensitivity.
They learn to optimize shooting parameters such as lighting, lenses, film and camera, so as to exploit their creative potential to its best.
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-> The Nude
- 5 days - 15h
- July 7 – 11, 2008 / July 28 – August 1, 2008
© Maddy François |
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Aiming at translating the aesthetics of corporal expressions into photography, this workshop explores the studio techniques specific to the nude and the adorned body. Participants learn to optimize shooting parameters such as lighting, lenses, films and cameras. The Nude-workshop is complementary to the Portrait, and it is highly recommended to participate in both.
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-> Computer Lab
- 5 days - 15h
- July 21 – 25, 2008
© Meggan Gould |
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This workshop is an introduction to the digital imaging techniques necessary to meet the current market demands. Students learn how to scan negatives, retouch and transform digital photos with Adobe Photoshop, and discover the parallels between digital and traditional film photography.
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-> Photojournalism
- 5 days - 15h
- June 30 – July 4, 2008 / July 28 – August 1, 2008
© Michael Sawyer |
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Aiming at a comprehensive overview of photojournalism and documentary photography, this workshop focuses on three main ideas: place, event, and theme, and how they interrelate in a photo documentary. Current techniques and tools of photojournalists will be presented and discussed.
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-> In the Steps of Talbot, Herschel and Bayard
- 5 days - 15h
- to be announced
© Pierre-Yves Mahe |
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Using the procedures from the first photographic processes, students rediscover the magic when light strikes sensitized paper. In contact with flowers, lacework or negatives the paper darkens and takes on different shades, depending on the chemicals used. A historical approach to the beginnings of photography, the workshop permits students to discover different methods of printing, allowing for their own photographic experiments.
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-> The Beginnings of Photography: Heliography and Physautotype
- 1 day - 8h
- to be announced
© Pierre-Yves Mahe |
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In 1816, Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) began experimenting on the chemical fixation of photographs made with a camera obscura. It took him eight years to develop Heliography, the very first photographic process to secure permanent images. He also invented the first photomechanical process allowing him to reproduce and print images. In 1829, Niépce started collaborating with Louis Daguerre, and three years later, they invented a second photographic process: the Physautotype.
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In this course, participants assist Jean-Louis Marignier – the first researcher to rediscover these photographic processes – in the production of Heliographs (on copper or silver plates coated with bitumen of Judea), as well as Physautotypes (on silver plates coated by pine resin). These reproductions allow the participants to visualize the world’s first photographs and to understand the origins of subsequent photographic processes, such as the Daguerreotype invented by Daguerre after Niépce’s death.
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