Albumen with Brenton Hamilton
Date: October 20 & 21 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $100 materials fee
The exquisite 1860′s albumen process will be investigated and introduced in this workshop. Paper will be coated with egg albumen then sensitized with silver nitrate. We will cover emulsion preparation and recipes, coating, sensitizing, and gold toning. Paper selection, sink preparation, and a discussion of appropriate negative density will be included. Limited to 8 participants.
Instructor Biography:
Brenton Hamilton holds his MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design. He is the Certificate Program Director of photography at Maine Media College and for 18 years has lead summer workshops in Maine. Brenton’s own work is inspired by the 19th century and has become a principle area of research and inspiration both as a historian and a printmaker. Devoted to the cyanotype & gum bichromate, Brenton’s embellished images are exhibited nationally: East Coast; at Susan Maasch Fine Art in Portland, Maine and West Coast; at TILT Gallery in Phoenix, AZ.
www.brentonhamiltonstudio.net
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The Center for Alternative Photography is pleased to announce our partnership with the International Center of Photography. The workshops that have CAP/ICP* next to the description are workshops that will appear in the Spring ICP catalog. We are looking forward to working with the ICP and to our continuing collaboration.