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UPCOMING
MASTERS WORKSHOP
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Responsibility in Documentary Photography
with Dina Rudick
Saturday, August 9 & Sunday, August 10, 10am–4pm, & Friday, August 15, 5:30–8:30pm
Registration is required and opens on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. To register please call 617.975.0600.
$250 Members/$295 Non-Members/$175 for Full-Time Students
Workshop will take place at Northeastern University and on location
A photographer has a responsibility to create their work with respect, concern, and understanding that pictures are the middle voice in creating dialog. Developing an artistic sense of light, composition, and how the moment gives a picture an infinite life, heightens the ability to make dynamic images that spark this dialog. In addition, noted photojournalist Dina Rudick, will help participants build other skills necessary to create compelling documentary images. These include the photographer/subject relationship, timing, reacting to situations, building stories, and more.
Dina Rudick has been a staff photographer for the Boston Globe since 2002, and has covered many of the biggest stories of the past six years. She covered the southeast Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, spent five months in the press corps covering John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid, and has done extensive documentary work in dozens of countries including Haiti, Bolivia, Pakistan, and various countries in Central America. Major projects include a focused study on how climate change has effected regions along the 45th parallel, a long-term story on post-traumatic stress disorder in two veterans of the Iraq war, and an intimate look at the most difficult decisions three people ever had to face. In addition to the still image, Dina has been exploring video storytelling for the past two years, and is currently training the rest of the Boston Globe photography staff in video. She's earned numerous awards including 1st place, Spot News BPPA 2006; 1st place (and 3rd place) Feature Picture Story BPPA 2006; Gallery winner; Women in Photojournalism 2007, 2008; Award of Excellence, Photography, 2006, Society of News Design; and Pulitzer nomination, 2007, for reporting series on climate change in 45th parallel.
IMAGE CREDIT: Copyright Dina Rudick/Globe Staff |
LECTURE/BOOK SIGNING
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Al Sol: Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon and Nicaragua
with Stella Johnson
Thursday, September 18, 7pm
Boston University's Kenmore Classroom Building, Auditorium 101, 565 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
FREE
Spend an evening with photographer Stella Johnson as she discusses the work in her premiere monograph Al Sol: Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon and Nicaragua . This book represents the photographer's prolific body of work documenting the rhythms of life across multiple continents. While describing Johnson's work in the preface, Magnum photographer Constantine Manos, contributed the following:
“Stella Johnson's photographs are poems weighted with grace, dignity, and compassion. Stella first forged her unique vision in simple Mexican villages where she became part of the fabric of daily life and turned ordinary moments into images of beauty. Her photographs reflect her caring approach to her subjects and their environment.
Stella is neither a photojournalist nor a documentary photographer. Rather, her work might be labeled personal documentary, for she brings to it an understanding and an approach which are deep and patient and truly personal.”
Image Credit: Stella Johnson, Xoxo, Oaxaca, Mexico 1999, Courtesy of the Artist
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SEMINAR
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Portfolio Project
with Stephen DiRado
Saturdays, September 20, October 4, October 18, November 1, November 15, 10am–12:30pm
Registration required and class size will be limited to 5 students. To register, please call 617.975.0600. Registration opens Friday, August 15, 2008.
$300 members/$375 non-members
Classes will meet at the artist's studio in Worcester, MA.
This sequential program, offered twice a year with a different instructor, provides an in-depth opportunity to share and receive feedback on your work in a small group setting and supportive environment. The Portfolio Project is designed to offer guidance and insight for those interested in refining their portfolio and progressing in their practice, while working with members of our photo community. Participants will be expected to actively create and edit in between sessions based on class discussions, so by the end of the program participants will have a stronger, more cohesive body of work. Participants are also expected to begin the program with a pre-existing body of work upon which they can build.
The Portfolio Project will be facilitated by a different artist, instructor, or photography professional, each semester. Legendary photographer and photo educator Stephen DiRado has opened up his personal studio to teach this installment of the program. DiRado has been inspiring photo students for more than twenty years at Clark University where he currently serves as Senior Lecturer in Photography. He has had recent solo shows at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; and Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX. This fall the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, MA, will present the exhibition Stephen DiRado's Dinner Series: How We Lived. His work can also be found in the collections of major museums and corporate collections such as the Currier Museum, Manchester, NH; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA; Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA; Polaroid Corporation, Dallas, TX; and Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.
IMAGE CREDIT: Stephen DiRado, Dinner Series: Lobsterville, MA, June 22, 2008, Being Patient , Courtesy of the Artist
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SEMINAR
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A Brief History of Contemporary Documentary Photography
with Judy Ditner
Dates and Location to be announced.
Registration required. To register, please call 617.975.0600.
$50 Members/$75 Non-Members/$30 Full-time Students
Seminar participants will have the opportunity to study the photographers, movements, and trends that have shaped what documentary photography is today. Since the medium's very beginnings, debates have raged around photography's status as art or document. Today, these poles have merged and the lines between documentary practice and artistic practice are increasingly blurred. This seminar series will address the multiple and various interstices between documentary practice and art photography.
By exploring the complicated and ever expanding field of documentary photography, this seminar will highlight trends in the current theorization of this genre: from photojournalism, war photography, and social documentary to imaginary narratives told through a documentary guise. Sessions will be structured thematically to cover a range of photographic issues within the larger rubric of the documentary genre. The seminar will focus on contemporary trends, in photography and in video tracing these developments since the 1960s and onwards. The issue of globalization will be especially relevant to this discussion and will be include an international roster of photographers including Allen Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Simon Norfolk, Andreas Gursky, Fazal Sheikh, Luc Delahaye, Sophie Ristelheuber, Alfredo Jaar, Walid Raad, Huit Facettes, and Edward Burtynsky. Questions and discussion will be encouraged at each meeting, and suggested readings will be available for further study.
Judy Ditner is a PhD candidate in the Art History/ History of Photography at Boston University. As a writer and curator, Judy has worked extensively with the issues of documentary and photojournalism. Recent articles include the feature essay “Re-Framing the War in Iraq” in Photography Quarterly and the review “Tod Papageorge – American Sports, 1970” in Modern Painters magazine.
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LECTURE
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POLAROID SPOTLIGHT LECTURE
featuring
Barbara Crane
Thursday, October 23, 7pm
$10 Members/$15 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for Students of Institutional Members
Boston University's College of Fine Arts, Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
For more than fifty years, Barbara Crane has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to experimentation and innovation in content, technique, materials, and formats. During her prolific career, Crane has continually re-invented/directed the nature of her work seeking new ways to plumb photography's creative potential. From abstraction to documentary, to natural and human forms and relationships, to multiples, murals, and collages, and much more, Crane's level of production is staggering and inspiring. In recognition of her achievements, Crane has been awarded multiple National Endowment for the Arts Grants as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her work was the subject of 7 retrospectives, over 75 solo exhibitions, and more than 200 group exhibitions. Her work has also been collected by many of the nation's prominent art and photography museums as well as public and private collections. A renowned photo educator, Crane is Professor Emeritus, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she taught for twenty-eight years.
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LECTURE
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Paul Fusco
Thursday, November 13, 7pm
$10 Members/$15 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for Students of Institutional Members
Boston University's College of Fine Arts, Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Join renowned Magnum photographer Paul Fusco for a discussion of his work, including photographs from his upcoming book Paul Fusco: RFK , due to be published by Aperture in October 2008. A complement to Fusco's earlier work, RFK Funeral Train, this new monograph offers up many never-before-seen photographs. The arresting images present, in brilliant color, a cross-section of grieving Americans as they stood vigil to the passing train. Fusco covered the funeral procession while a staff photographer for Look magazine. While at Look from 1957 to 1971, Fusco reported on a range of stories including the plight of destitute miners in Kentucky; Latino ghetto life in New York City; cultural experimentation in California; African-American life in the Mississippi delta; religious proselytizing in the South; and migrant laborers. Soon after, Fusco joined Magnum Photos and has traveled the globe to shoot a wide range of stories. Included among these is a long-term project documenting the lasting effects of the Chernobyl disaster. His work is also actively sought by numerous publications including Time, Life, Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and has been exhibited by major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Copies of Paul Fusco: RFK will be available for sale at the lecture and the artists will be on hand to sign them.
IMAGE CREDIT: Paul Fusco/ Magnum Photos USA. 1968. Robert KENNEDY funeral train.
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LECTURE
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Larry Fink
Thursday, December 11, 7pm
$10 Members/$15 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for Students of Institutional Members
Location To Be Announced
Don't miss this engaging and interactive presentation by prominent photographer Larry Fink. Social Graces, Fink's first book, cemented his international reputation in the late 1970s. This body of work presents two seemingly disparate social strata–high society events, primarily in New York City, and the parties of working class families in Pennsylvania. What unites the two is Fink's distinctive vision and ability to render his subjects without guise or artifice. These candid moments portray a range of human gestures—both subtle and theatrical—that imply deeper narratives, relationships, and commentaries. Fink has gone on to other prominent bodies of work including Boxing: Photographs by Larry Fink; Runway: Photographs by Larry Fink; The Forbidden Pictures; the eponymous Larry Fink; and Larry Fink: Somewhere There's Music, among others. Fink is well known for his editorial photography and shoots for Conde Nast Publications including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine. His work has been exhibited and collected by many prestigious museums and has earned him top honors and awards including, two John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships and two National Endowment for the Arts Grants. Fink–a committed educator–has also taught for 43 years and is currently a tenured professor of photography at Bard College. |
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