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Greetings!
As summer ends we look back on the fun adventures we have had
during these past few months! Read on for more info about the
August Print of the Month, our upcoming workshops, The Weston
Photography Scholarship Auction, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
APIS (Alternative Photo International Symposium), The Santa Fe
Photographers Market and the Edward Weston Show at The Getty
Museum, Los Angeles CA.
The August Print of
Month Statue # 2 is up for viewing. This is the 8th
print of our 2007 Portfolio. There is one photograph for every
month of the year. 5x7 photographs mounted on 11x14 museum quality
mat board. Made from Kim's Mamiya RB 6x7. There is still time to
join the Print of the Month Club. For more information about this
special edition Portfolio and to sign up for our Print of the
Month Club please visit our
Subscription page.
Our 2007
Workshop year is coming to a close. We have 2 more
workshops scheduled at Wildcat. The Studio Nude II is now full,
please email to be put on waiting list if interested. The Figure
in Platinum has openings. Please email for registration
information or visit our Workshop page to get more information.
This is your last chance this year to come and visit, to
photograph with 2 renowned photographers, to platinum print in
Edward Weston's darkroom and enjoy the California Coast in a
workshop setting.
2007 Weston Photography Scholarship Auction
We had a very successful 2007 Weston Photography Scholarship
Auction raising nearly $20,000 this year, which doubles last years
efforts. Thanks to all of you that donated your photographs and
time. Thanks to the Carmel Art Association for donating their
beautiful gallery, Michael Jones and the Movable Feast for their
wonderful appetizers and drinks. The Blackstone Winery for
donating the wine, the media for the fine publications in our
local newspapers honoring our winners photographs. And especially
to all of you that have continued to support our scholarship
program by participating in our online and local auctions and by
donating to our cause. We really appreciate the support and the
chance to keep Black and White Photography alive in our schools!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
In June we traveled to Houston Texas where we met our new friends
Don & Chris Sanders. Don arranged for Kim to speak at the Museum
of Fine Arts about his uncle Brett Weston's Show - Natural
Abstractions. (Thank you Don!) It is a new acquisition for The
MFAH, a gift of Christian K. Keesee and the Brett Weston Archive.
We met and visited with Photography Curator Ann Tucker and the
Photo Forum group. We also visited with an old friend,
photographer Don Eddy. We had a fabulous time!
Events;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brett Weston
Alternative Photo International Symposium
In July we drove out to Santa Fe for the Alternative Photo
International Symposium (APIS) sponsored by Bostick and Sullivan.
Kim gave a lecture with a power point presentation representing
his photography career starting with his very early black and
white landscape images to his contemporary painted photographs.
Also speaking at the conference was photographer Ronald Partridge,
Imogen Cunningham's son. He talked and passed his beautiful
platinum prints around the audience for everyone to see and after
signed his book "The Quizzical Eye". Ron at 90 has more energy
than a lot of people I know! We met his daughter Meg and her
husband. What a treat! As a matter of fact there were a lot of
people we knew there. Photographers that had taken our workshops,
stayed in Bodie House, platinum printers we had met in Los
Angeles. It was amazing. We had a booth next door to the
conference in the PhotoArts Market. It featured booths with 25
local and national photographers exhibiting and selling their fine
art photographic prints. It also included 30 booths of national
photographic equipment and supply manufacturers demonstrating and
selling their products through the Santa Fe Camera Center and
Midwest Photo Exchange.
Events;
Santa Fe Arts Market
Call for Entries: Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins
CO.
While we were in Santa Fe we met Larry Padgett from The Center for
Fine Art Photography and Tim Anderson of The CameraArts Magazine.
They are partnering to bring photographers a unique opportunity to
promote their work and talent. The November/December issue of
CameraArts will be dedicated to showcasing the images selected for
this collectors edition. The exhibition is open worldwide to
amateurs and professions working in film, digital and mixed media.
They are very excited and motivated people and hope you will
consider entering this exciting contest. Kim and I are going to be
working together with Larry on several different projects, a
juried show and a figure workshop next year in 2008.
More information about the Call for Entries
Edward Weston Exhibition: Enduring Vision
And last but not least we traveled back down to Los Angeles to see
the Edward Weston Exhibition: Enduring Vision. We got a private
viewing before it opened, enjoyed the reception and visited with a
lot of people. Be sure to visit the Getty Museum if you are in Los
Angeles. Kim will be giving a Point of View Talk on September 28,
2007. A special thanks to assistant curator Brett Abbott! Thanks
Brett for taking good care of us.
Events; Edward
Weston Enduring Vision
That's it for now.
Thanks so much for subscribing to our newsletter, purchasing our
work and coming to our workshops.
We hope to see some of you real soon.
Sincerely, Gina,
Kim & Zach |
