Cyanotype with Robert Schaefer
Date: Oct 27 | Saturday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $195
This workshop is an investigation into the expressive possibilities of the Cyanotype. This process involves an iron-based chemical formula that creates a light sensitive emulsion. This emulsion is then painted onto art paper and exposed by placing a negative on the emulsion and making a contact print with a UV light source. This workshop will cover and demonstrate the techniques and procedures for making these aptly named blue-toned prints. Different chemistry formulas, emulsions, coating methods and paper choices will be discussed. Students should be prepared to bring in several of their own images in negative form. Medium and large format B&W negatives, paper and acetate negatives and digital negatives are all appropriate for this workshop.
Limited to 8 participants.
Instructor Biography:
Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. began his photography career while studying and getting his MA Degree (Diplom Ingenieur) at the Technische Universität of Munich, Germany. With exhibitions in Munich, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Paris and Graz, he moved to New York in 1981 where he began working with alternative printing processes from the 19th Century. His particular favorite became the cyanotype which was used to print the images for his exhibitions “Blue Berlin,” Berlin, Germany in 1997, “Nothin But The Blues” at the Barbara Levy Gallery, New York City in 1999 and his 25-Year Retrospective at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama (his home state) in 1999 to 2000. Lyle Rexer writes about Schaefer’s use of cyanotype printing of architectural images in Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-garde (published by Abrams in 2002). The Goethe Institute of Delhi supported an exhibition of Schaefer’s cyanotypes in November 2010 at their facility and another at the Government Museum in Chandigarh with a catalogue, which offers images of both exhibitions. The Goethe Institute flew Schaefer there to speak at both openings as well as offer a cyanotype workshop at their individual institutes. Schaefer currently teaches various photography courses at New York University, and his work is handled by the Domeischel Gallery in New York City.
www.schaeferphoto.com
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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.