Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop

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Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop with Elizabeth Avedon
Saturday, September 17, 2011

9-3p, with lunch, R.F. Strickland Building, Concord, Georgia

There is a rich history of self-published authors including Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King and Mark Twain. Now that artists are able to produce their own hardcover and softcover books online at a relatively low cost, self-publishing has become a popular alternative for photographers.

Self-Publishing Your Photography Book will cover the basic principles of designing your own photography book. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Elizabeth will demonstrate the bones of a successful photography book including; interior design decisions, sequencing, typography (Serif vs Sans Serif) and cover design. We will explore what comprises good design from bad, creating a framework for the participant to build upon with their own book project, and briefly discuss the self-publishing companies available.

Each participant should bring 10, maximum of 12, related images for sequencing and discussion of design considerations. We will work together and as a group to evolve each of your individual projects and expression. Bring only inexpensive copies we can tack on the wall, no delicate final prints, 12 max and 1 photography book whose design or layout you admire (optional).

We will not cover technical questions (pdf-to-book workflow) or software questions.

Elizabeth Avedon has a rich, thirty-year history in photography and fine art. Collaborating with museums, publishing houses, advertising agencies, galleries and artists, she's received recognition for her curatorial work, exhibition design and publishing projects, including the retrospective exhibition and book, "Avedon: 1949 -1979" for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Avedon's, "In the American West", for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. In addition, she has also worked with the Menil Collection and the Estate of Diane Arbus. In conjunction with Random House she co-published the series, "Elizabeth Avedon Editions/Vintage Contemporary Artists", working with distinguished art critics Donald Kuspit, Peter Schjeldahl and artists Eric Fischl, Francesco Clemente, Louise Bourgeois, and Robert Rauschenberg. Former Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe; Creative Director for The Gere Foundation; Art Director for Polo Ralph Lauren and Picture Editor for Polo.com Magazine; and a founder of Tibet House, New York; Elizabeth contributes regularly to the online magazine, La Lettre de la Photographie, as well as working as an independent curator and consultant, including the current exhibition "Return to the Roof of the World: Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland".

Workshop Only: $250

Book Workshop Package: $350*

Package for Two: (one ticket to Book Workshop included) $475*

*includes Friday evening Collector’s Soiree, Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop during the day Saturday, the SlowExposures Ball on Saturday evening, and the Lunch and Learn photo slide show on Sunday after the Juror’s Talk

Visit the SlowExposures website and click on the tab "Self-Publishing Your Photography Book Workshop" tab to register for this event.

Digital Photography for Beginners Workshop

Sunday April 17, 2011

2 - 4 p.m.

Fee: $50.00

Location: Whiskey Bonding Barn, Molena, Georgia

To sign up go to: Slowexposures.org and select the tab Midyear Event Schedule

Bring your camera and your camera’s manual and join photographer Brenda Fayard to learn how to take better photographs. Brenda is an experienced commercial and fine art photographer whose work has been chosen for several SlowExposures exhibitions, in addition to other juried shows. She is renowned for her ability to teach the essentials of digital photography in an informative, relaxed way to even the most digitally-challenged beginner!

For further information, or if you have questions, please contact Malgosia Florkowska at maflorko@gmail.com


Donna Black



Debbie Fleming Caffery to Receive Humanties Award

Debbie Fleming Caffery, of Breaux Bridge, will receive the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities “Michael P. Smith Documentary Photography Award” on April 2 during special ceremonies at Houmas House in Darrow, La., just south of Baton Rouge. Each year, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, or LEH, honors Louisianians who have made outstanding contributions to the study and understanding of the humanities. The LEH is the Louisiana affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Debbie Fleming Caffery’s dedication to rural communities with strong agriculture and religious ties brought her to the sugarcane fields of Louisiana where she has photographed and documented the last generation of workers to harvest sugarcane by hand. Over the course of 30 years, Caffery has had more than 20 one-woman exhibitions at museums and galleries, including the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and Galerie Camera Obscura in Paris.

Caffery received a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society in 2006 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. In addition to numerous awards in Louisiana, Caffery has begun conducting a series of photography workshops on Cajun Mardi Gras, south Louisiana Cajun culture, and workshops in New Orleans. Debbie Fleming Caffery's images have earned her numerous awards including a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship awarded in 2005 to continue her photographic work in Mexico. She was the first recipient of the Lou Stomen prize for documentary photography given by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California. Caffery's work is in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

 

Call for Entries

SlowExposures is the nationally-recognized juried photography exhibition that underscores the diversity, contradictions and complexity of the rural American South. Now in our ninth year, we invite photographers to submit their work.

SlowExposures is held during the last two weekends in September. Located an hour from Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson airport in the rural countryside of west central Georgia, the show is renowned for its intimate, relaxed environment where photographers and photography lovers from across the county gather to learn, share, and have fun. This year, our jurors Elisabeth Biondi and Peter Essick will join our 2011 faculty of professionals to offer cutting edge workshops, presentations, reviews and consultations.

Jurors:

Elisabeth Biondi has served as Visuals Director at The New Yorker magazine since 1996, helping to transform the look of the publication by collecting a group of impressive staff photographers and commissioning established masters as well as emerging talent, and utilizing portrait, fine art and documentary photography. Her earlier work at GEO, Stern and Vanity Fair has established her credentials as an accomplished, innovative professional in the field.

Peter Essick: For the past 25 years Peter has worked as a freelance photojournalist since studying photojournalism at the University of Missouri. Traveling to all seven continents in search of compelling pictures, he has produced 35 stories for National Geographic magazine. His story on story on nuclear waste (2002) won first prize at World Press Photos in Amsterdam.

Peter's images have been included in the Photography, Man and the Environment exhibit at Viterbo, Italy, the exhibit Thy Brothers’ Keeper at the Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan and a one-man exhibit at Lumiere Gallery in Atlanta. In April 2005, Outdoor Photographer magazine featured his efforts to photograph the effects of global warming. These images were seen on The Oprah Show, This Morning with George Stephanopolis and in the movie, An Inconvenient Truth. His images have been in Time magazine’s Great Images of the 20th Century and the 100 Best Photographs of National Geographic. An exhibit of my landscape photographs was recently shown at Lumière Gallery in Atlanta.

How to Enter: Please visit our website SlowExposures for details. Deadline June 15th.

Tim Barnwell Workshops and Print of the Month

First, due to strong demand, we are offering additional computer photo workshops for anyone interested in learning about how to work with photographs on the computer.  A course description follows below.

We are continuing our Print-of-the-Month program with an image for March, to introduce new images to collectors and anyone interested in fine photography for the home.  Details are listed below along with a web link to view this month's print on Flickr.  The February print is available through the end of March as well.

Please give Tim Barnwell a call if you have any questions about either item. 
Basic Image Management
First offering:  Wednesday, March 23, 2-5:30pm (3.5 hours)
Second offering: Thursday, April 14, 2-5:30 pm (3.5 hours)
Cost $50
Participants need:  PC laptop if available.  Bring camera and memory card, some of your own images you might like to work with, notepad, a couple blank CDs to test burn.
Description:  This workshop is designed for artist or anyone who needs an introduction to managing photographers on the home PC computer.  It will cover basic computer operation and workflow related to image handling and photo manipulation starting with the captured image (from your camera or provided by a photographer).  Topics include importing photographs into the computer, basic image manipulation in Photoshop Elements, converting Jpeg images to Tiff and uses of each type file, the digital imaging basics of file types, sizes, and resolution (dpi/ppi), sttoring, organizing, and archiving images on the computer, burning CDs, preparing files for email, web page, print output and for Internet sites like Zapp and Juried Art Services.  We will use Photoshop Elements to improve images by cropping, resizing, color correcting, sharpening, correcting flaws, and much more.  Class size is limited to four participants per workshop in order
to give maximum attention to the particular needs and skill level of each participant.  We have three computers for use here, or you can bring your laptop running Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7, loaded with Photoshop Elements (version 8 preferable; available from local office supply stores or online at sites like B&H Photo in New York).  A basic understanding of Microsoft Windows is needed, but no prior Photoshop knowledge is necessary.

Instructor: Tim Barnwell has been a professional photographer and photography instructor for thirty years. He has taught dozens of workshops and served as director of Appalachian Photographic Workshops from 1980-88. He has recently taught photography classes at AB Tech and UNC-Asheville. He is known for his photographic knowledge and expertise, ability to relate complex subjects, and for his patience and diligence as an instructor.

Print of the Month
Our "Print of the Month" Program is designed to introduce collectors to new, previously unpublished images. We are able to offer special initial pricing, as these images are not available through galleries until after they rotate out of the Print of the Month program.

Description:
· 11 x 14 Archival inkjet print, mounted & matted on museum quality 16 x 20 board. A new print will be offered each month
· Discounted initial offering price: $295 (plus 7.75% NC sales tax)
· No need to be enrolled in any program to receive this special pricing, but an additional 10% discount is offered on all of Mr. Barnwell’s regularly priced prints and books, for those enrolled in our Automatic Purchase Program (12 prints for 2011; credit card charged once print is delivered each month)

Limited Edition Photographs:
"Limited Edition” means that a maximum of thirty (30) photographic reproductions will be made of an image, per image size (11 x 14)
Each Limited Edition Photograph is mounted, matted, signed and numbered

Pricing Levels
· Price will stay at $295 for two months, including the initial month of offering
· After two months, the photograph is removed from Print of the Month status and goes to full retail price. Prints in this size are normally $600 for unpublished images; $1200 for images from his three books
· Prints may be ordered framed (black metal 16 x 20 frames, with Plexiglas) for an additional charge of $35

Print delivery:
· Prints may be ordered by calling Barnwell Photography 828-251-0040 or by email at barnwellphoto@hotmail.com
· Allow up to 2-3 weeks for delivery depending on inventory/demand
· Prints may be viewed and purchased at Barnwell Photography, 244 Coxe Ave., Asheville, NC 28801. Shipping available at additional charge

March offering (POM pricing good through April 30, 2011):
· "Tree Branches, Ice & Snow"
This month's selection, along with additional details can be viewed at this link