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Lecture: Saturday Sept. 25th in Woodstock

This weekend David Maisel will be giving the last lecture of the summer season at CPW on Saturday, September 25 at 8PM. His bio is as follows:

David Maisel is a photographer and multimedia artist based in the San Francisco area. Maisel’s first book, /The Lake Project/, was published by Nazraeli Press and selected as one of the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004 by the critic Vince Aletti. Nazraeli Press published Maisel’s second book, /Oblivion/, in 2006, and Cascade Effect in 2008. Chronicle Books published his monograph /Library of Dust/ in 2008, which the New York Times called "...this year's most haunting book of images." /Library of Dust/ was the subject of a symposium in 2009 at the New York Institute for the Humanities. Maisel is the recipient of a 2008 Artist Residency from the Headlands Center for the Arts and a 2007 Scholar/Artist Residency from the Getty Research Institute. He was nominated for the 2009 Alpert Award in the Visual Arts, and short-listed for the 2008 Prix Pictet Award. Maisel has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Opsis Foundation. His work is widely exhibited, and is represented in major public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. To learn more about David, visit www.davidmaisel.com .

This is a unique opportunity to hear such an internationally renowned photographer so close to home.

The cost of the lecture is $5 for students, seniors, and CPW members, and $7 for the general public.

Photo exhibit at Dorsky Museum (SUNY New Paltz)

Beth Yarnelle Edward, Erin, Age 11, 1998, 1994.062, Courtesy the artist

Thought of Home: Photographs from the Center for Photography at Woodstock Permanent Collection is curated by Wayne Lempka and is on view at SUNY New Paltz until March 18, 2011.

This is a local exhibition of photographs that is not to be missed. The Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Dorsky are two of the most valuable photographic resources in the Hudson Valley. CPW's collection is held in the Dorsky Museum's archive and is accessable for educational use. The collection consists of roughly 1500 pieces.

about the exhibition, from the website:
What is inside our homes is in some ways more important than what is on the outside. The objects we live with – furniture, rugs, art works, and knick knacks – support not just a sense of one’s identity but the identity of others who reside with us. These objects, and those included outside our front and back doors, are documented by each photographer with the intent to connect us to one another, to eliminate the sense of loneliness and act as a visual investigation of beauty, personal narrative, and memory.

MUSEUM HOURS:
Wednesday – Sunday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

(Closed Mondays, Tuesdays, and Holidays)


LOCATION:
State University of New York at New Paltz
1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561
845.257.3844

Lecture this Saturday Sept. 11th

Image by Gerald Slota

Gerald Slota will be speaking at the Center for Photography at Woodstock about his photography and video work. He is an incredible artist and fun speaker---this would be a great event to use as your extra credit or to simply start the semester off right!

59 Tinker Street, Woodstock
8pm
$5 students

See more info about CPW's lecture series here.

fall 2010 -- ready, set, create!

Emmet Gowin, Edith and Moth Flight, 2002

The fall semester is now underway and a new group of creative and motivated students at SUNY Ulster are ready to enhance their fine art photography skills.

This class's goal is to teach students the fundamental technique of photography and pair that with a little bit of theory, history and criticism in the hopes that each person will take more meaningful and thoughtful images by the end of the semester. In addition, Adobe Bridge & Photoshop CS4 will be practiced throughout the semester. This will prepare students for the professional photography field.

After the first class, the students will begin taking pictures for their first assignment which will explore light and shadow as subject matter. In general, photography is all about light and shadow. Without it, photography would not exist. But in the digital age, it is hard to understand the connection (without the concept of light burning into film). I hope this assignment will help students to see that more clearly through the simple process of observing the world more carefully.

Several of those images will be posted later on in the semester.

This poem was read to me by an instructor 10 years ago with the hope that it would lead to inspiration for a similar assignment.

Light breaks where no sun shines
by Dylan Thomas

Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things of light
File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.

A candle in the thighs
Warms youth and seed and burns the seeds of age;
Where no seed stirs,
The fruit of man unwrinkles in the stars,
Bright as a fig;
Where no wax is, the candle shows its hairs.

Dawn breaks behind the eyes;
From poles of skull and toe the windy blood
Slides like a sea;
Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky
Spout to the rod
Divining in a smile the oil of tears.

Night in the sockets rounds,
Like some pitch moon, the limit of the globes;
Day lights the bone;
Where no cold is, the skinning gales unpin
The winter's robes;
The film of spring is hanging from the lids.

Light breaks on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
When logics dies,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.

Student Volunteers Needed- Great Opportunity!!!!

image by Mark Seliger and featured in CPW's 2009 Print Auction

The Center for Photography at Woodstock's annual gala event is on Sunday October 11th, 2009. This is an award ceremony and photography print auction. We are seeking volunteers who want to help with different tasks throughout the day. It is a ton of fun and a great experience for photo students!

This year, we will be holding both events back to back at the Bearsville Theater, just under 2 miles from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, on 291 Tinker Street.

The Gala Reception will begin at 2pm and will run until 4pm. Staff will begin checking people in at the door for admittance to the Live Auction at 3:30. Opening remarks will begin at 4:00pm and the Live sale will begin at 4:15pm.

We need your help!

It goes without saying that the live auction & gala event wouldn’t happen without the hard work and generosity of many dedicated volunteers. You can make a huge contribution to CPW by joining us on the big day!

As you may already know, the Benefit Gala is CPW’s most important fundraiser of the year- with the funds raised at this event that we will produce our 2009 programs including exhibitions, residencies, lectures, workshops, photographer’s salon, PHOTOGRAPHY Quarterly magazine, fellowship awards, and more.

We hope that you can lend a hand.

These are the shifts or you can choose to be a CPW "Angel" and help us all day:

TIME: 10am-1 pm/ SET UP

During this time, volunteers are needed to help transport the photographs, print bins, tables, and supplies from CPW to the Bearsville Theater. Then, volunteers will prepare and set up for the Vision Awards & auction.

TIME: 1pm – 4pm / VISION AWARDS RECEPTION

The Vision Awards Reception and brunch will begin at 2pm (going till 4pm). Vision Awards check-in and additional auction set-up will also take place. At 3:30pm, auction registration opens.

TIME: 4pm – 7pm / THE LIVE AUCTION

During the auction, volunteers truly keep the show running! People are needed to help check people in at the front door, run prints (hold up photographs to be auctioned off during live sale), run the digital show of auction lots, organize prints after they are bid on, and pack prints once check-out begins.

TIME: 7pm – 10pm / CHECK OUT, BREAKDOWN, & CLEAN UP

This is a critical time, as people line up to take home their prints and we clean up the Bearsville Theater. Volunteers can help in a number of ways, from packing prints to transporting supplies back to CPW.

Please RSVP by calling 845-679-9957, or sending an email to our Education Coordinator (your teacher), Liz Unterman at liz@cpw.org.

With your help we look forward to another exciting gala. All volunteers will receive a complimentary copy of the Auction Catalog and as a way to express our thanks to you CPW will be giving a year’s membership to everyone who volunteers at the 2009 Benefit Gala.

See more info about the event here.

a new batch of scan-o-grams

JEFF, KRISTA, SHAY AND AMELIA

JANET

JASMINE

JEN

JOAN

KATRINA

MEGAN

STEPHANIE

STEPHEN

Fall 2009 has begun....

Time for another semester!  Photography 1 is back in action and a new batch of students have arrived.  Seems to be a great mix of people from different backgrounds, majors and art experiences.  Stay posted to this blog for student work, exhibition and event info and other related topics.  

regional photo student exhibition @ CPW

PICS
until May 24th at the Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
845-679-9957
Wed-Sun. 12-5 or by appointment
extra credit for my students who see this exhibition and write a 1 page response.

image by Kate Stone of Bard College.

image by Ray Felix of SUNY Albany.

For the exhibition titled PICS, CPW invited the photography departments of Bard College, The College of St. Rose, Hartwick College, Marist College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, SUNY Albany, SUNY New Paltz, and Vassar College to nominate one exceptional student from each of their undergraduate programs and, where applicable, one student from their graduate program. Each photography department nominated its strongest voices to represent their program.

More info on exhibition here.

documentation

some critique documentation taken by students Jeanne and Zach.