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Fotoweek DC 2009 at the Corcoran
The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design will host a series of FotoWeek DC events from November 6 to November 14. As a major center for collecting, displaying, and studying photography and photojournalism, the Corcoran is proud to sponsor and participate in Washington D.C.’s annual week-long celebration of photography with lectures and portfolio reviews by renowned curators, photographers, and editors.
fotoweek Events at the corcoran
Ongoing Exhibitions
Friday, November 6
Sunday, November 8
Monday, November 9
Wednesday, November 11
Thursday, November 12
Friday, November 13
Saturday, November 14
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FotoWeek Corcoran Press Releases
Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design Hosts FotoWeek DC 2009 Events
10/30/2009
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
On View at the Corcoran
Edward Burtynsky: Oil
Through December 13, 2009
Currency / Exchange
Through November 15, 2009
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Lecture by Lotte Christensen, 1:30 p.m.
Courtesy Embassy of Denmark
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
Free and open to the public
Lotte Christensen’s work is included in the FotoWeek DC exhibition What Lies Beneath: Nature & Urban Landscape in EU Photography.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Portfolio Reviews, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; 2:30–5:30 p.m.
Atrium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
$65 per review ($35 for students)
Get one-on-one feedback on your portfolio from some of the best in the field. Prominent photographers from all specialties, curators, educators, photo editors, and other experts on commercial and fine art photography, photojournalism, and documentary photography will review your work, your personal projects, or your books in progress. You can choose your reviewer, as well as the level at which you would like to be reviewed. Each review is 20 minutes, with a 10-minute wrap up. These appraisals may help shape your future as a photographer and provide invaluable business connections. Sessions will book quickly so advance reservations are required.
Reviewers scheduled to participate are MaryAnn Camilleri, Brian Clamp, Donna DeCesare, Frank DiPerna, Melissa Farlow, Merry Foresta, Frank Goodyear, Andy Grundberg, George Hemphill, Connie Imboden, Sarah Kennel, Elizabeth Krist, Michael Mazzeo, Jayme McLellan, Al Miner, Tom Rankin, Bonnie Stutski, Mary Virginia Swanson, Frank Van Riper, Ricardo Viera, Deborah Willis, Tim Wride.
Sessions are booking quickly so be sure to register in advance. To register, please visit http://www.fotoweekdc.org/events/reservation.aspx.
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Lecture by Tim B. Wride, 1 p.m.
The Sky is Falling? What’s up in Photo Land and why it’s Time to be Optimistic about Image making
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
Free and open to the public
Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the art world, everyone starts talking about toxic assets and downsizing! What’s an art lover to do? Curator, writer, and educator Tim B. Wride will give his unique and irreverent look at the state of the photography world in the wake of our current economic, social, and aesthetic meltdown. Follow as he guides us through the past and present trends that are in crisis, and take a leap as he offers insights into what may be the look of the future. Tim will point fingers, name names, and tilt at windmills as he explains how he dares harbor a satisfied sense of total OPTIMISM for the future of image making.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Lecture by Deborah Willis, 12 p.m.
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
Free and open to the public
Dr. Deborah Willis is Chair and Professor of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she also has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies.
Named as one of the 100 Most Important People in Photography by American Photography Magazine, she is also a 2005 Guggenheim and Fletcher Fellow, a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, a 1996 Recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award. She is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curators of African American culture.
Among Deborah’s notable projects are Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and African American Portraits of Progress, The Black Female Body in Photography, Barack Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, and Let Your Motto Be Resistance. Her upcoming book entitled Posing Beauty will be released in October 2009.
Lecture by Donna DeCesare, 2 p.m.
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
Free and open to the public
Donna DeCesare is widely known for her groundbreaking photographic reportage on the spread of Los Angeles gangs in Central America. Her photographs of children in Guatemala and Colombia who are former child soldiers, survivors of sexual abuse, or who live with the stigma of HIV helped UNICEF to develop protocols for photographing children at risk. Publications featuring her work include the New York Times Magazine, Life, DoubleTake and Aperture. She is the recipient of an Emmy award, the Dorothea Lange Prize, the Alicia Patterson Fellowship, the Mother Jones International Photo Fund Award, the Soros Independent Project fellowship and most recently a Fulbright Fellowship in Colombia. DeCesare is currently documenting narratives of loss and survival among those who have suffered political violence in Colombia. Images and text from this project published on the Web site Crimes of War won a top award in the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism contest. Her work has been exhibited in one-woman venues internationally.
DeCesare is a tenured associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism, a faculty affiliate with Latin American Studies and an advisory board member for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. DeCesare is also on the advisory committee of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Edward Burtynsky and the Industrial Sublime, 7 p.m.
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
$15 Members; $20 Public
One of the world’s most respected photographers, Edward Burtynsky explores the intricate connection between industry and nature in his photographs, beautifully depicting the inherent tension between mankind’s struggle to preserve and exploit the landscape. Capturing landscapes that are both beautiful and terrifying, Burtynsky has mastered the art of the industrial sublime in photography. On this evening, he discusses the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: Oil and its place within his oeuvre.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Currency / Exchange Closing Reception, 6–8 p.m.
Gallery31 is open during Gallery hours and is free to the public.
Currency / Exchange showcases work made by Corcoran photography students in El Salvador while enrolled in the seminar and travel course “International Experience / Transnational Identity,” taught by Muriel Hasbun, with the collaboration of Susan Sterner. Students Kathleen Altemus, Julie Carrasco, Nick Kirkpatrick, Erika Nizborski, Jenny Yang and Michelle Yo learned about the history and culture of the smallest Central American country and its transnational community in the Washington, D.C. area while exploring contemporary issues of migration, diaspora and cultural identity. The photographs of Currency / Exchange speak to the experience of translating a culture and attest to the “currency” of images in the making of a cultural landscape.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Artist Seminar by Tim B. Wride, 7–10 p.m.
Introduction to Critical Looking: A Seminar for Thinking Photographers
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Corcoran College of Art + Design
$95 Public; $47 Students
After all the practical workshops, after all the tech consultations, after all the seminars, after all the portfolio reviews ….now what? How does all of the information apply to YOUR process and YOUR work? How do the trends and climate of the art world affect you and your work? Do you know how to look at photographs—including your own—and CRITICALLY ascertain the direction and relevance of them? What is the difference between the work you want to do and the work you SHOULD do? How do you know which way to turn in order to grow as an artist?
Curator/writer/educator Tim B. Wride will guide you toward a fuller understanding of the art climate in which you are working and the social, economic, and creative pressures that are affecting your photography. Through a dynamic program of lectures, Q&A’s, and group interaction, we will explore the state of the market, the directions of creative interplay, and, most important, the necessity of critically and intensely LOOKING at the work you see as well as the work you make. For too many artists this is the most overlooked aspect of their tools and talents; for all artists, however, Critical looking is the most basic skill that must be developed in order to challenge and advance their art making ability.
Tickets payable by Paypal at Payment@curatorialeye.com or at http://www.curatorialeye.com
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Lecture by Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost
10–11:30 a.m.
In this session, Julieanne Kost will demonstrate why Lightroom is the professional photographer’s essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. You will discover how to automate your workflow and organize your images, make global and selective corrections, enhancements, seamlessly integrate Photoshop and prepare your final images for output.
12–1:30 p.m.
Are you ready to discover the little known tips and tricks that will significantly boost your productivity using both Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom? If so then don’t miss Julieanne Kost, Digital Imaging Evangelist from Adobe Systems as she shares her favorite "Top Twenty" shortcuts for photographers that will improve the way you work as well as her favorite features and the most efficient ways to use them. From the novice to the seasoned expert, everyone has something to learn from this master class.
Joining Adobe in 1992, Julieanne has learned her craft through hands-on experience and now serves as the Senior Digital Imaging Evangelist. Spanning digital imaging and illustration, her role includes customer education, product development, and market research. She is a frequent contributor to several publications, a speaker at numerous design conferences and tradeshows, and a teacher at distinguished photography workshops and fine art schools around the world.
Herself a passionate photographer, she combines her background in psychology in creating artwork, seen in several showings and published in several magazines. She is the author behind Window Seat – The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking, the founder of jkost.com and the creator of the Adobe Photoshop CS training DVDs published by Software Cinema.
FotoWeek Lecture Series, 2–5 p.m.
Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design
Free and open to the public
2–3 p.m. Ernesto Bazan
Ernesto Bazan’s work reflects his time in Cuba, where he lived from 1997 until 2006. He will present a multimedia piece about his life there, as well as photographs from his most recent book on the country. Originally from Italy, Bazan began traveling to Cuba in 1992 and ultimately moved there to develop his artistic practice. He has been awarded a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 1998 W. Eugene Smith Award. Other awards include the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor prize, the Mother Jones International Foundation Grant for Photojournalism, and a first prize in the Daily Life category from World Press Photo. Bazan has published several books, including his most recent, “Cuba.” His work is housed in private collections and museums, including the Bibliothèque National in Paris, the Musée Réattu in Arles, France, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and others. http://www.bazanphotos.com/
3–4 p.m. Matthew Niederhauser
Matthew Niederhauser lives in Beijing and primarily documents youth culture and urban development in China. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Photo District News and the Guardian Observer amongst others. He also just published with PowerHouse Books a 175-page, hardcover book entitled Sound Kapital that covers his portraits and concert photography of Beijing’s underground music scene. While his nights are spent photographing Beijing’s underground music scene, Niederhauser also works on a large-format, photo-documentary project entitled Visions of Modernity that investigates urban development and new architecture in China’s swelling capital. He hopes that his photography will allow viewers to appreciate and be inspired by the plurality of human experience in China today and that the many obstacles they face are imperative to us all. http://www.mdnphoto.com/soundkapital/index.html
4–5 p.m. Iraqi Voices
Lori Grinker and Chris Hondros have covered the war in Iraq and its aftermath. They will show their work and participate in a panel discussion about the war and its effect on the Iraqi people.
Lori Grinker is a member of Contact Press Images. She has been documenting Iraqis who have fled to Jordan and those who have received asylum in the U.S. Her work has earned international recognition, including a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, and the Ernst Hass Grant. http://www.lorigrinker.com/
Chris Hondros is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images. He has covered most of the world's major conflicts since the late 1990s, including wars in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, and Liberia. His work has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Newsweek and The Economist, and on the front pages of most major American newspapers, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
Hondros has received dozens of awards, including multiple honors from World Press Photo in Amsterdam, the International Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L'Image in France, and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2004 Hondros was a Nominated Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia, and in 2006 he won the Robert Capa Gold Medal, war photography's highest honor, for his work in Iraq. He's also been named a 2007 "Hero of Photography" by American Photo magazine, and was a 2008 National Magazine Award finalist. http://www.chrishondros.com/
Workshop by Tim Wride, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Critical Looking: The Art of Conscious Creativity
Room 14A, Corcoran College of Art + Design
Cost: $375, Class limit: 15, Payable by Pay pal at Payment@curatorialeye.com or at http://www.curatorialeye.com
Do you know how to look at photographs—including your own—and CRITICALLY ascertain the direction and relevance of them? What is the difference between the work you want to do and the work you SHOULD do? How do you know which way to turn in order to grow as an artist? CRITICAL LOOKING is the key to expanding your awareness and applying a conscious understanding of your artistic process.
Tim B. Wride guides you through a dynamic series of historical perspectives, contemporary observations, interactive exercises, group critiques, and one-on-one portfolio reviews with the goal of awakening a fuller understanding of YOUR unique creative process and the directions that may be open to you with this new understanding. Open up your creativity and apply it to the way in which you approach images and image making. Make the move to growth through self-awareness.
BIOGRAPHY
Tim B. Wride is a voracious consumer of photographic images. He likes nothing better than to look at photographs and talk to photographers about their work.
As Curator of the Department of Photographs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for 14 years, Tim curated over 50 exhibitions, authored and contributed to a dozen books, and has lectured, participated in panels, juried exhibitions, and provided portfolio reviews internationally. In 2004, Tim became the founding Executive Director of the No Strings Foundation, a Los Angeles-based non-profit that provides individual artist grants to U.S. photographers.
Tim is currently developing and offering seminars, workshops, and individual consultations with photographers whose goal is to grow as an artist. Updates to his schedule and programs available in your area can be found at www.CuratorialEye.com
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