Teenage

I really liked the photo books that were laid out in the last class. However, Joseph Szabo's Teenage stood out to me and it really reminded me of the work of Olivia Bee. Olivia Bee is a rising young photographer. She's done jobs for Nike and Converse but to most of the internet community, she's known for her intimate photos of her friends. Using mainly her Olympus film camera, she takes pictures of daily interactions between teenagers and there's a dreamy, nostalgic sort of mood that puts you somewhat at ease. These are a few of her photos from her website olivia bee.

Also, she spoke at the Cusp Conference in 2010 and her speech is inspirational. You can watch it below.

OPPORTUNITY - It's knockin'...

MoMA Teen Nights             

Drop by for free movies, artist workshops, food, and more.

• Make art with your friends
• Talk with other teens about modern and contemporary art
• There’s no need to sign up; everyone ages 14–19 is welcome.
  

When: Every other Friday night during the school year, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Pizza is served at 4:00 p.m. Films and events start at 4:45 p.m.
Where: The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building at 4 West Fifty-fourth Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues

First come, first served.     More Info <http://www.moma.org/learn/teens/nights>
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Forward Thinking Museum
Juried Photography Contest for Teens           DUE October 31st

Resolution is about sharing art and exchanging ideas. It's a place where you can use photography to express your concerns. Whether it's something happening in your school, a debate in your community, or an issue of global importance, capture it in a series of three pictures and enter them into the contest. Then join us in the Resolution Forum, where you can share you thoughts and opinions with other students across the country. The forum is moderated by professional artists and educators, so you can pick up some tips about photography along the way. And did we mention that there are prizes? You could win a professional DSL camera, a subscription to Aperture magazine, fine art books, and more. Enter your photos now, and become part of the Resolution.

More info/Enter contest <http://forwardthinkingmuseum.com/contest_photo_student.php>  

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artists and Writers: A Collaborative Workshop (Ages 15–18)       Saturday November 19th, 1-4pm

Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education Show location on map <http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/museum-map?mli=uris-center>
Are you an artist, a writer, or both? Come surround yourself with modern art in the exhibition Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe <http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7BBF4BFDC3-B244-497E-98CA-7AC22B7EE6FB%7D> , choose a work of art in the galleries that inspires you, and write a poem, prose, or commentary. In the studio, let your writing inspire your own collage, watercolor, or drawing.
The classes are free, but registration is required.              Register Online <https://metmuseum.wufoo.com/forms/teen-programs-ages-1518/>                        Download Free Teen Pass to visit the Met <http://www.metmuseum.org/learn/~/media/Files/Learn/For%20Teens/TeenPass.ashx>


32nd ANNUAL COLLEGE & HIGH SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST sponsored by NIKON        DUE November 21st
WINNING PHOTOS published in the May 2012 issue of Photographer’s Forum Magazine, entered into Nikon's Emerging Photographers Hall of Fame and exhibited at                     Brooks Institute Gallery 27

Enter Online <http://pfmagazine.com/photography-contest/enter-contest-online/>   or Download Entry Form <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\AMoussawel\Desktop\Photographer's%20Forum%20Photo%20Contest.pdf>




National Portfolio Day        Sunday, November 13th         More info/Register online <http://www.mica.edu/Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Undergraduate_Admission_and_Financial_Aid/Meet_a_MICA_Representative_Off_Campus/National_Portfolio_Day_in_New_York_hosted_by_MICA.html>

National Portfolio Day is an opportunity to meet representatives from institutions offering professional programs accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.  Many of the nation's leading colleges and universities will travel to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to meet with students, review their artwork and share information regarding their programs of study and admission requirements.



PDN edu 2012 Student Photo Contest        DUE December 7th     More info/Enter contest <http://contest.pdnedu.com/index.shtml>

Winners and selected honorable mentions will be featured in the Spring 2012 issue of PDNedu and on pdnedu.com. Additional People's Choice winners will be featured on pdnedu.com in our Winners Gallery.
Grand prize winners, one per category, will receive a Nikon digital camera, a Crumpler bag, a free print from Modernage and a B&H gift card. All winners and honorable mentions will get a one-year subscription to PDN.

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS will receive a portfolio consultation with a PDN editor.

The pre-college winner will receive a review with Dennis Keeley, chair of photography and imaging at Art Center College of Design.

SUBMISSIONS
Students can submit a single image or a series, up to six images per entry. There is no limit to entries a student can submit; however, all submissions must be made by students currently enrolled in college or high school. Online entries only.



Jewish Museum
Teen Photo Contest: New York Stories             DUE January 20th, 2012

• How can you capture the essence of your community in a photograph?
• What story does your photograph tell about your neighborhood and the people who live there?
  

In conjunction with the exhibition, The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936 - 1951 <http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/UpcomingExhibitions> , the Education Department invites high school students to submit original photographs which document the people, places and stories that represent and distinguish their communities, both inside and out of New York City.

Contest Guidelines/Email Submission <http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/EdContests>



Professional Women Photographers          DUE January 31st, 2012         Download pdf <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\AMoussawel\Desktop\PWP%20Contest.pdf>  to apply
2011/12 Student Awards    

This exhibition is open to any young women in high school, grades 9-12, in the New York Metropolitan area. The theme is Abstracts in Color.
Read about last year’s awards: http://www.pwponline.org/blog/2011/02/19/student-awards-2011/

Cutting it close!

I know we've only got a few hours until class, but I was browsing the interwebs, and found a couple of things I thought I'd share really fast:

Elizabeth Avedon's blog (yes Avedon as in Richard. She was his son's first wife. Her son also kind of goes to SVA for photography). She talks about photography new and old, fine art, documentary, artists dead and alive, books, gallery shows....... The list goes on.

Also the George Eastman House. They are located out in Rochester, NY and house almost everything Kodak related... Cameras, film, and a HUGE collection of photographs.

See you all soon!

I Thought I'd Add Something

I can remember being taken away by I photograph of an urban cowboy when I was about 7 or 8. I had seen the photograph in a book my Aunt (a photographer) had. I had no idea who had snapped the photo, but I knew I liked it. A little while ago I stumbled upon that book again and there he was. The book is titled The Americans and the photographer is Robert Frank. Here is the photograph and some others by him.

Put a little smile on...

So I just developed a few rolls of film myself here at home, and lo and behold - I'd exposed half of my rolls to light. Some photos are spotty, some are almost white, and 60% of my photos are in the trash can.

It can, will, and plain old sucks when it happens to you. But we can move on knowing there are photos like these (I'm also plugging along with some really fun portraits of names we've already talked about, or you might have heard somewhere along the way):

Remember Sally Mann's bold images of her children?

And Richard Avedon's use of white backgrounds?

This is JFK's daughter, Caroline.

You might laugh at him, but Diane Arbus loved

finding characters like this guy waiting around to be photographed!

Judith Joy Ross did a project following school kids in Hazleton, PA.

And of course, Michal Chelbin and her grown-up kids portraits.

All of these are strong portraits, and most of them are shot in an environment that the children might be found in everyday. Also, each photographer photographs the kids as if they were adults. This makes the photo beautiful and eerie at the same time.

Can't wait to get back to work with you all tomorrow!!

It Happens to the Best of Us...

From the Wikipedia article on Robert Capa (renowned combat photographer and brother of ICP Founder Cornell Capa):

"His most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life in London made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll. Only eight frames in total were recovered.^[13] Capa never said a word to the London bureau chief about the loss of three and a half rolls of his D-Day landing film.^[14]

Although a fifteen-year-old lab assistant named Dennis Banks was responsible for the accident, another account, now largely accepted as untrue but that gained widespread currency, blamed Larry Burrows, who worked in the lab not as a technician but as a "tea-boy".^[15] Life magazine printed some of the frames in its June 19, 1944 issue with captions that described the footage as "slightly out of focus", explaining that Capa's hands were shaking in the excitement of the moment (something that he denied).^[16] Capa used this phrase as the title of his autobiographical account of the war, Slightly Out of Focus."

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Hi All:

Thought I'd post this shot by Duane Michals. He shoots primarily in black and white and often uses long exposures and double exposures. This portrait of the Belgian surrealist painter, René Magritte, is a great example of a double exposure. He took two exposures on the same piece of film, one with Magritte facing the camera, the other with him facing away. This can be done with cameras where cocking the shutter and film advancement are separate. It can also be done in the darkroom by exposing your photo paper twice with two separate negatives.

Best --B!

Long Exposure Photography - some cool examples

A long exposure of an airplane taking off.

Here's some examples I've found recently of long-exposure photography.  These images were all shot using a slow shutter speed which, as we learned in class, lets in MORE light.  Therefore, you'll notice that almost all of these examples were shot at night or in very dark situations so that the photographer could leave the shutter open for a long time without overexposing the image.  Also you'll notice that in EVERY example there is also VERY deep depth-of-field.  That is because using a VERY SMALL aperture opening (or higher f-stop number, like f/22) lets in LESS light at once.  By keeping the amount of light hitting the film as low as possible, the photographer has created the opportunity to use a very slow shutter speed.

Driving through a tunnel.

A great example of 'painting with light.'  See the star streaks? You can tell this was taken at nighttime (or at least dusk/sunset) - it looks like daytime because the shutter was open long enough to let more light in.

This one has got me thinking of all kinds of shots I could do like this in NYC... just be careful of traffic!

Looks like sparks raining down from some sort of construction.  Neat effect, huh?

EXTREME star trails! This shutter was left open for HOURS.

A lighthouse at night - the shutter was left open just long enough to catch one full rotation of the lamp.

More cars at night.  Notice the extremely deep depth-of-field!

Work I like.

This is one of my favorite photographs by Gary Winogrand. His photograph really captures all the social interactions that can occur on the street and all the different sorts of people you can meet there. It questions the relationship between people with privilege and health, and those who have neither. All this, and it is beautifully composed with an amazing sense of light.