Center for Alternative Photography

CAP/ICP – Platinum Printing with Carl Weese

Platinum with Carl Weese

March 24 & 25

Price $395 + $75 Materials Fee

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CAP – Carbon Printing with Lisa Elmaleh

Bromoil with Joy Goldkind – March 31 & April 1

Bromoil with Joy Goldkind

March 31 – April 1

Price $395.00

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Digital Negatives with Morgan Post – Spring 2012

Digital Negatives with Morgan Post

Date March 10 & 11

Price $395

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Calotype with Dan Estabrook

March 10 & 11

Price $395 + $75 Materials Fee

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Wet Plate Shooting Night March 15

Wet Plate Shooting Night

March 15

Price $100

CAP – Intro to Wet Plate Workshop with Lisa Elmaleh – 5 Nights

Date:December 5 – 9, 2011
Time:6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $750 + $100 materials fee

This five-night hands-on workshop is for those who want to immerse themselves in a week-long wet-plate workshop. Workshop participants will learn how to create glass negatives, tintypes, and ambrotypes in camera. Experimentation is encouraged. We will discuss chemical mixing and safety. Students will learn the techniques of preparing the plate, pouring collodion, exposing, developing, fixing, and varnishing. We will be using 4″x 5″ wooden reproduction wet plate cameras with antique brass lenses. All materials are supplied. Limited to 8 participants

CAP – Wet Plate Workshop with Lisa Elmaleh

Date:Saturday & Sunday, April 21 & 22
Time:10:00am – 5:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $100 materials fee

Workshop participants will learn how to create glass negatives, tintypes, and ambrotypes in camera. Experimentation is encouraged. We will discuss chemical mixing and safety. Students will learn the techniques of preparing the plate, pouring collodion, exposing, developing, fixing, and varnishing. We will be using 4″x 5″ wooden reproduction wet plate cameras with antique brass lenses. All materials are supplied. Limited to 8 participants

Instructor Biography:
Lisa Elmaleh is a large format photographer whose current work is an exploration of the landscape of the Everglades. As a native of South Florida, the Everglades were an essential part of her personal history. Using a portable darkroom in the trunk of her car, Elmaleh photographs using the nineteenth century wet collodion process. Elmaleh received the Silas Rhodes scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts, and obtained a BFA with honors. She is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship, the Everglades Artist Residency, the Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency, and the Goldwell Artist Residency. She has been included in various group shows such as the 2008 New York Photofest (Powerhouse) and Landscape: Voyage (KMR Arts).

www.lisaelmaleh.com

CAP/ICP – The Daguerreotype Process with Jason Greenberg Motamedi

CAP/ICP – The Daguerreotype Process with Jason Greenberg Motamedi
Date:Saturday & Sunday, November 12 & 13, 2011
Time:10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $795 + $130 materials fee

The daguerreotype is an image unlike any other; each is unique and elusive. It was one of the first and arguably most beautiful forms of photography, and yet its technologies are largely forgotten. In this workshop we will learn, practice, and discuss different methods of daguerreotypy with the goal that every participant be able to produce several images, and quickly be on their way to making daguerreotypes on their own. This workshop will use the less toxic and ecologically friendly Becquerel development, although we will discuss the basics of mercury development. We will concentrate on the most important and difficult skills: polishing, sensitizing, exposing, gilding, and problem solving. The course will also include a brief introduction to the history of 19th century photographic technology. All supplies and equipment will be provided by the Center.Limited to 8 participants

Instructor Biography:
Jason Greenberg Motamedi is a Daguerreotypist and anthropologist. He has a doctorate in cultural anthropology, and has taught at several universities and colleges. He lives in Portland, Oregon and works for a non-profit organization conducting educational research and program evaluation. He has a profound and deepening interest in visual and photographic representation, seeking to understand and adapt 19th century technologies to contemporary aesthetic, intellectual, and ideological concerns.

www.motamedi.info

CAP – Gum Bichromate Printing with Brenton Hamilton

CAP – Gum Bichromate Printing with Brenton Hamilton
Date: Saturday & Sunday, September 24 & 25
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $430
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As a class, we will investigate subtle washes as well as bold techniques with brushes and heavy applications. Students should bring large format film negatives, paper negatives, and/or digital negatives. Chemistry preparation, papers, and brush applications will be thoroughly covered and practiced. 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

CAP/ICP – Salted Paper Printing with Dan Estabrook

CAP/ICP – Salted Paper Printing with Dan Estabrook
Date: Saturday & Sunday, October 1 & 2
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $430 + $100 materials fee
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This workshop draws from the very beginnings of Photography on paper, from the early experiments before 1839 to the “Photogenic Drawings” of Talbot and the later advancements in the process. We will dive right in, making photograms on plain salted paper, then work our way up into gelatin-sized and toned prints, looking at the many variations in formulae along the way. We will also discuss how to create the right negative capable of showing the beauty of this wonderful technique. Limited to 8 participants.

Instructor Biography:
For almost twenty years Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Lately he has focused on the earliest processes on paper – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil. He balances his interests in photography and design with forays into sculpture, painting, drawing and other works. Dan has exhibited widely and has received several awards, including an Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994. He is also the subject of a recent documentary by Anthropy Arts. He is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.

www.danestabrook.com

CAP/ICP – Albumen Printing with Brenton Hamilton

CAP/ICP – Albumen Printing with Brenton Hamilton
Date: Saturday & Sunday, October 15 & 16
Time:10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $430 + $100 materials fee
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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

CAP – Cyanotype with Robert Schaefer

CAP – Cyanotype with Robert Schaefer
Date: Saturday, April 28
Time:10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $195
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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

CAP – How to Choose and Use a Lens for Large Format and Alternative Process with Geoffrey Berliner & Eric Taubman

CAP – How to Choose and Use a Lens for Large Format and Alternative Process with Geoffrey Berliner & Eric Taubman
Date: Saturday, April 21
Time:10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $75
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Choosing the right lens for a project is one of the most important decisions a photographer can make. This class will discuss how to determine the appropriate focal length and coverage for format and perspective. Lenses covered will be from hand ground 19th century to modern day computer designed objectives. Some of the 19th century lenses presented will be the Chevalier Verre Combine, Petzval portrait, Meniscus Landscape, Harrison Globe, and the Rapid Rectilinear. From the 20th century, soft focus lenses presented will be the Wollensak Verito, Pinkham and Smith Series, Struss Pictorial, Graf Variable, and the Nicola Perscheid as well as the modern, sharp focus Schneider Symmar-S, Super Angulon, and Tele-Xenars. Lenses will available for examination as well as sample images taken with these lenses. Students are welcome to bring in their own lenses for discussion.

Instructor Biography:
Geoffrey Berliner is the Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation. He has been taking pictures and collecting antique photographic images and equipment for over 20 years. Eric Taubman is a large format photographer, teacher, and photo lab owner. He has been working with wet collodion for over 10 years and also specializes in 19th century optics and cameras. His work has been featured in View Camera Magazine and recently in the exhibition ‘L’Objet Photographique’ at the Maison Europeene de la Photographie in Paris.

Ziatype with Brenton Hamilton

CAP The Secret Sits in the Middle with Marcia Lippman

Jerry Spagnoli Artist Lecture

Collodion Troubleshooting Workshop with Ellen Susan

Amy Arbus Artist Lecture CAP/ICP

Chemistry Safety and Mixing with Morgan Post

Date: June 23 | Saturday
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $75

Course Description:

Chemical safety and mixing techniques for 19th century photography in the 21st Century.

This class will go over practical safety measures when mixing, storing and trying not to inhale or ignite various chemicals. We will answer question’s like: Can I mix this type of acid with this type of chemical? Is it safe to store this in a hot darkroom? How does humidity effect the longevity of this dry chemical? Can I pour this down the drain? This class will demonstrate how to mix Cyanotypes, Vandykes, Albumen, Salt Printing, Wetplate, Kallitypes, Platinum and Palladium and its many developers. Every student will be able to mix a “Kit” of their choice and come away with a safety plan for there own darkroom.