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CocuSocial Cooking Classes @ 140 E 27th St, New York, NY
Love Pinot Noir? Welcome to the club good friend. Ever since the movie “Sideways,” Pinot Noir has been one of the darlings of the wine drinking community. And from its humble roots in France the wine is now made worldwide with myriad styles and tastes. This class will discuss the wine’s history and evolution, through personal experience and stories, in the marketplace by having an opportunity to taste, compare and contrast a battery...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This workshop is a rare opportunity to work with Joni Sternbach in her Brooklyn studio while being immersed in a weekend of shooting 8x10 wet plate collodion images. The class will go over the foundations of portraiture and explore the process of working with models. Through both natural and artificial light, participants will compose, sensitize, expose and develop ambrotypes and tintypes. The size of this class is purposefully small in order to...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Has the bankruptcy of Kodak got you down? Worried that film might go away forever? Well, worry not. In this workshop, Lisa will teach students how to create their own glass negatives in camera from scratch. Students will learn the techniques of preparing the plate, pouring collodion, exposing, developing, fixing and varnishing as well as chemical mixing and safety. In addition, students will learn the nuances of printing from a glass negative,...
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Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
In this workshop we will place the language of color in a historical and philosophical context. Examining such disparate forms as cinema, painting, photography and sculpture, as well as various philosophical and theoretical ideas, this course will look at ways to create subjective and informed color in one’s own practice. Akin to world-building in science fiction, color becomes a concrete element in current photographic practice, both in the studio...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This seven week advanced wet plate class will be a portfolio-building class for students who want to further their craft and dialogue with the wet plate process. Critiques will be held weekly and students will have ample time during class to be working on independent projects. All participants will be granted full access to workshop chemicals, cameras and enlargers to create their bodies of work using the wet plate process during the workshop....
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Come explore surrounding New York City landmarks with instructor Robert Schaefer. In this 2 day workshop, students will explore striking elements of city architecture and produce digital negatives from their raw captures. Participants will visit the Flatiron Building, Empire State Building, Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building among others. Students take their raw captures shot in camera that day and print them on transparency...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Participants will learn how to apply “silvering out” techniques of chromoskedasic sabattier and Halo-chroming will be employed to create mirror-like, metallic areas on black and white prints. Additional topics covered will include adjusting for contrast with chemistry and warm or cool tone effects. MATERIALS LIST REQUIRED Black and white photo paper (Glossy & Matte will produce different effects, both are effective). Traditional...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The beginning of the modern spiritualist movement dates to 1848 at the farmhouse in upstate New York of John Fox, his wife and two young daughters. The purported supernatural occurrences at the house and the ensuing fame of the ‘Fox Sisters’ ushered in a movement to last over 75 years. It was during this era that ‘spirit photography’ thrived as a cultural phenomena. The question of authenticity in photographs is one that we ponder and explore....
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This workshop is a thorough introduction to the delightfully versatile carbon printing process, developed in 1855. Carbon prints are capable of a wide range of image characteristics. They can be virtually any color or tone, and the final image can be placed on a wide variety of surfaces, including glass, metal, paper, as well as various kinds of synthetic surfaces. Students will learn how to make carbon tissues by hand from gelatin, glycerin, sugar,...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Lillian Bassman was one of the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century. Her imagery was transformed into poetic and glamourous works of art, achieved through innovative darkroom techniques such as bleaching, blurring, staining, etc. She was interested, she said, in “creating a new kind of vision aside from what the camera saw.” In this workshop participants will explore black & white silver gelatin darkroom printing techniques...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This wet plate printing course will be an intensive introduction to the wet plate process that was the leading mode of photography in the 1850′s and 1860′s, combined with the ease and simplicity of working in a contemporary darkroom with enlargers. The process must be completed while the plate is wet; the images are exposed, developed, fixed, and washed, and images are viewable within minutes. Workshop participants will learn how to create...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
In this workshop, Lisa will teach students how to create glass negatives, tintypes and ambrotypes in camera. Students will learn the techniques of preparing the plate, pouring collodion, exposing, developing, fixing and varnishing as well as chemical mixing and safety. Workshop participants will be using 4x5” wood reproduction wet plate cameras all equipped with antique brass lenses. The cameras, chemicals and materials will be supplied.
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The versatile and painterly bromoil process is a printing method that combines the arts of photography, printmaking, and painting. In this workshop, students will learn the process from start to finish. The Bromoil process begins by bleaching a black and white silver gelatin print to remove the silver. Lithographic ink is then applied with a brush or roller to replace the silver in the print. Any color or combination of colors can be used. Each...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The magic of film based photography! Re-inspire your photography by learning about the joy of hands-on film photography. This workshop will offer an in-depth introduction to the transformative process of shooting and developing 35mm & Medium Format film and printing your own images in the traditional darkroom. The understanding of camera and creative controls you will gain by working with film can be equally utilized for digital...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Since the 19th Century, platinum prints have offered a photographic tone unsurpassed by any other medium. In this workshop students will combine this capability with 21st Century digital imaging technology. Students will begin by following a procedure to test and calibrate digital negatives from a photo quality inkjet printer that will have the range and tonal scale needed to produce fine Pt/Pd prints. The course moves between the digital printer...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The element uranium is generally thought of today in connection with nuclear reactors or atomic bombs, but in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century it played a significant role in photography. Most often it was used as a toner, producing red-brown tones on silver prints and blue, green and red tones on platinum prints.In 1858, J. C. Burnett and Niépce de Saint Victor patented a uranium printing process. A uranium print, which uses...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Elevate your wet plate skills with our immersive 8x10” workshop at Penumbra Foundation. Explore the art of creating tintypes and ambrotypes on a larger scale, refining your collodion technique under expert guidance. Utilize our top-notch facilities and equipment for an unforgettable hands-on experience in the historic process of wet plate photography.
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This one day workshop introduces students to a simple yet beautiful lensless imaging technique: zone plate. A zone plate creates an image without an optical lens, giving an almost mystical glow to its subjects, resulting in romantic and ethereal soft focus imagery. Through lecture and hands-on learning, students will draw inspiration from photographers who have used zone plates and pinhole imagery and explore how various subjects are transformed...
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Discover the intriguing world of electrophotography at Penumbra Foundation. Explore the unique Xerox flat plate process, allowing you to create striking carbon-based photographic images. Experiment with image manipulation, multiple transfers, and even color, all in a light-filled environment.
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Prerequisites: Students should have taken Intro to Digital Negatives and Platinum Palladium Printing or have equivalent experience with the platinum palladium process. Familiarity with Photoshop is required, particularly an understanding of adjustment layers. In this eight-week intermediate course, students will build upon their foundational knowledge in producing handcrafted platinum-palladium prints from digital negatives. Students...
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