Course Description:
The mercury-developed daguerreotype was the process that Daguerre, and the French government, gave to the world in August of 1839. Within the next two years, the process was dramatically refined. This class will introduce this refined technique, brought forward into the 21st Century. In comparison to the Becquerel process, this refined mercury-developed daguerreotype is fairly fast; Development is a few minutes rather than hours, and exposures are dramatically shortened. But the introduction of a bromine accelerator and mercury for development add significant laboratory requirements to ensure safety for the contemporary daguerreotypist. This workshop will build on the skills learned from the Becquerel workshop, and provide the experience of making mercury-process daguerreotypes. The goal is to have each participant leave the workshop with mercury-process daguerreotypes that they have made themselves, and the knowledge to safely undertake the process on their own, from an informed standpoint. The class will teach a blend of the best 19th Century techniques (as I know them) and bring in what the 20th and 21st Centuries offer in improved techniques, tools, and safety. We never stop learning. Note: It is highly recommended that participants in the Mercury-Process Workshop first attend a Becquerel workshop at CAP or elsewhere.

To register please visitcapworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:

Kenneth E. Nelson has been making daguerreotypes since 1976. He has actively written about, lectured on, demonstrated and taught the daguerreotype process since 1980, including 5 years of teaching with the Historic Process Workshops at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. He holds BFA and MFA degrees in Photography and Photographic Museum Practices, and a Certificate in Photographic Conservation. His daguerreian work is widely published, and is included in public and private collections in France, the U.S., Canada, Japan and other countries. He and his wife Meg live near Seattle, Washington and together are in business as Kaufma Nelson Vintage Photographs.

Date: August 18 & 19 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $795 + $130 materials fee

Course Description:
The daguerreotype is an image unlike any other; each is unique and elusive. It was one of the first and arguably most beautiful forms of photography, and yet its technologies are largely forgotten. In this workshop we will learn, practice, and discuss different methods of daguerreotypy with the goal that every participant be able to produce several images, and quickly be on their way to making daguerreotypes on their own. This workshop will use the less toxic Becquerel development, and will provide the necessary background for mercury development. We will concentrate on important and difficult skills: polishing, sensitizing, exposing, and problem solving. The course will also include a brief introduction to the history of 19th century photographic technology. All supplies and equipment will be provided by the Center. Limited to 8 participants.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:
Jason Greenberg Motamedi is a daguerreotypist and anthropologist. He has a doctorate in cultural anthropology, and has taught at several universities and colleges. He lives in Portland, Oregon and works for a non-profit organization conducting educational research. His photography seeks to understand and adapt 19th century technologies to contemporary aesthetic, intellectual, and ideological concerns.

www.motamedi.info

Date: August 11 & 12 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $395

The Bromoil process is a printing method that was very popular in the early 1900s. Bromoil was favored by pictorial photographers who used it to add a more artistic rendering to their work. The Bromoil process begins by bleaching a black and white silver gelatin print to remove the silver. Lithograph 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 piece is individually inked by hand; therefore no two prints are identical.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:

Joy Goldkind currently resides in St. James, NY. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC in 1963. She has exhibited in numerous locations across the country. She had a solo show at the Museo Nationale Della Fotographia in Italy, where a permanent collection of her work is now housed. In 2007 she won the cover contest of Eyemazing Magazine and in 2008 her photos where selected in the top 50 photographers at Photolucida. Her photography is also included in corporate collections in NYC, as well as in private collections across the globe. Goldkind’s photographs have graced the covers of international publications and magazines such as SilverShotz and Eyemazing. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, B&W Magazine, Zoom Magazine, Photolife, View Camera and Color magazine.  Joy’s work won photographer of the year 2010 at the WPGA competition and will be showing work in Buenos Aries, Argentina in 2011.  She is represented by Verve Fine Arts. NM, Tilt Gallery, Phoenix AZ and Divergence Fine Art in Baltimore MD.

Joy Goldkind’s work

http://www.Galeriebmg.com/joy_goldkind_exhibition.html

Date: May 5 & 6 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $395 + $75 materials fee

The Ziatype process is a wonderful introduction to alternative photography. Ziatype is a printing out process that uses palladium metals. Utilizing additives and humidity, a range of color and contrast is achievable. It is a hand-coated process and one with a great range of palette. Large format or appropriate digital negatives are necessary for this course.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:
Brenton Hamilton holds his MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design. He is the Certificate Program Director of photography at Maine Media College and for 18 years has lead summer workshops in Maine. Brenton’s own work is inspired by the 19th century and has become a principle area of research and inspiration both as a historian and a printmaker. Devoted to the cyanotype & gum bichromate, Brenton’s embellished images are exhibited nationally: East Coast; at Susan Maasch Fine Art in Portland, Maine and West Coast; at TILT Gallery in Phoenix, AZ.

www.brentonhamiltonstudio.net

Date: April 14 & 15 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $395 + $75 materials fee
CAP/ICP

Course Description:

This is a introduction to two elegant processes that were often used in combination in the 19th century. We will make contact print images in the classic platinum palladium process on the first day. Day two of the workshop will entail very light application of gum bichromate washes of watercolor pigments over the platinum works. This results in subtle color and tones and often an enhanced richness to the image. You will learn about; developers, recipes, appropriate negatives and working notes of two classic historic processes. Large format or appropriate digital negatives are necessary for this course.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:
Brenton Hamilton holds his MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design. He is the Certificate Program Director of photography at Maine Media College and for 18 years has lead summer workshops in Maine. Brenton’s own work is inspired by the 19th century and has become a principle area of research and inspiration both as a historian and a printmaker. Devoted to the cyanotype & gum bichromate, Brenton’s embellished images are exhibited nationally: East Coast; at Susan Maasch Fine Art in Portland, Maine and West Coast; at TILT Gallery in Phoenix, AZ.

www.brentonhamiltonstudio.net

Date: May 19 & 20 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $395

3D, or stereoscopic, imaging is one of the earliest “alternative” techniques in
photography and was in wide use by the 1850’s. The current wave of 3d films has
brought stereoscopic imaging back into popular vogue once again but this time, due to
digital technology, it may be here to stay. In this workshop participants will use
traditional view cameras (provided), polaroid cameras and a single digital camera to
create stereoscopic images. A comprehensive overview of the techniques used for
shooting stereo and basic training in making digital anaglyphic (red/cyan) stereo images
in photoshop will be covered. An overview of the fascinating history and aesthetics of
the three dimensional image will be presented. Participants will finish the workshop
with examples of both stereo pairs and anaglyphic images that they have created and
the skill to continue producing this work on their own.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:

Bryan Whitney uses alternative imaging techniques such as x-rays, 3d photography and
imaging on silk, mylar and transparent materials and incorporates this work into site
specific installations. He has taught in the art school at Rutgers University, lectured on
photography on a Fulbright grant and exhibited in New York and Europe. He is currently
working on a 3D film about New York City. His work can be see at:
www.bryanwhitney.com, www.x-rayphotography.com and www.3dnewyork.com

Date:  May 17 | Thursday
Time: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $100

This is a 5 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers. This shooting night will be for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate process. We provide the cameras, chemicals, tin, glass, and studio, and you provide the inspiration. This shooting night is for wet plate practitioners who have taken a wet plate workshop and would like more practice.  Still life and portrait set ups are possible.  There will be no instruction, but a wet plate practitioner is available for questioning and assistance.  There will be four cameras, which will be shared, and each participant is allowed to invite only one model for portrait sitting.  Note: maximum size is 5×7. Limited to 8 participants.

To register please visitcapworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Wet Plate Shooting Night

Date: March 15 | Thursday
Time: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: The Center for Alternative (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $100

This is a 5 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers. This shooting night will be for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate process. We provide the cameras, chemicals, tin, glass, and studio, and you provide the inspiration. This shooting night is for wet plate practitioners who have taken a wet plate workshop and would like more practice.  Still life and portrait set ups are possible.  There will be no instruction, but a wet plate practitioner is available for questioning and assistance.  There will be four cameras, which will be shared, and each participant is allowed to invite only one model for portrait sitting.  Note: maximum size is 5×7. Limited to 8 participants.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Date: April 28 & 29 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $395 + $100 materials fee

There is nothing like the satisfaction involved in mixing your own chemistry from raw materials, cutting, filing and polishing your own plates, pouring, shooting and processing the plates to create unique, handmade photographs that the artist is entirely responsible for However, as many newly minted ambrotypists and tintypists soon learn, the process is fraught with pitfalls. Inexplicable stains, spots, and patterns appear with no apparent explanation. A perfectly exposed plate gives way to a terribly flat, fogged exposure, or darkens beyond recognition. What to do?

In this workshop, students will explore each chemical step of the process, and how it interrelates and reacts with every other step. We will discuss (and create) some of the most common problems: fog, comets, crepe lines, oyster stains, etc, and some less common issues. Students will learn to better control a process that often ends up controlling them and the appearance of their images for lack of an understanding of alternatives.

Students will learn to develop strategies for systematically eliminating variables that are causing problems in their own unique situation. We will learn to adjust for environmental (weather, individual studio setups, darkboxes) issues that can’t be recreated in the studio. We will practice towards optimum technique in pouring, shooting and developing, and also learn the best practices for chemical and equipment maintenance to avoid contamination.

This hands-on workshop is ideal for those with some wet plate experience who want to work toward a more technically perfect plate. But it will also be very useful for those who embrace “process artifacts” and flaws – you’ll no longer have to wait for “happy accidents” when you can introduce them as a result of a better understanding of the process. In both cases this class will help collodion artists move towards making images they intend – rather than being at the mercy of whatever unknown chemical forces are at work. And it should be a lot of fun. Limited to 8 students.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:
Ellen Susan has been working with the wet plate process since 2004.  From 2007 to 2011 Ellen Susan made portraits of active-duty members of the United States Army in Savannah and Columbus, Georgia, using the 19th century wet plate collodion process. Susan’s Soldier Portraits intend, in part, to personalize and humanize individuals sent repeatedly into war zones, in a way that is meant to transcend pro-or-con policy debates. The resulting intensity of gaze in the portraits engages viewers in a manner that is distinct from casually made, ephemeral images in contemporary media. Work from the project has been the subject of six solo exhibitions to date, and has been included in museum and gallery shows in New York, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, San Francisco and other cities.

Date: April 28 | Saturday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: The Center for Alternative Photography (36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016)
Price: $195
CAP/ICP

This workshop is an investigation into the expressive possibilities of the Cyanotype. This process involves an iron-based chemical formula that creates a light sensitive emulsion. This emulsion is then painted onto art paper and exposed by placing a negative on the emulsion and making a contact print with a UV light source. This workshop will cover and demonstrate the techniques and procedures for making these aptly named blue-toned prints. Different chemistry formulas, emulsions, coating methods and paper choices will be discussed. Students should be prepared to bring in several of their own images in negative form. Medium and large format B&W negatives, paper and acetate negatives and digital negatives are all appropriate for this workshop. Limited to 8 participants.

To register please visit capworkshops.org

The Center for Alternative Photograpy is located in New York City and focuses on the preservation of emulsion-based photography through the education and promotion of alternative photographic processes. Contact us at info@capworkshops.org or call 917-288-0343.

Instructor Biography:
Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. began his photography career while studying and getting his MA Degree (Diplom Ingenieur) at the Technische Universität of Munich, Germany. With exhibitions in Munich, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Paris and Graz, he moved to New York in 1981 where he began working with alternative printing processes from the 19th Century. His particular favorite became the cyanotype which was used to print the images for his exhibitions “Blue Berlin,” Berlin, Germany in 1997, “Nothin But The Blues” at the Barbara Levy Gallery, New York City in 1999 and his 25-Year Retrospective at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama (his home state) in 1999 to 2000. Lyle Rexer writes about Schaefer’s use of cyanotype printing of architectural images in Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-garde (published by Abrams in 2002). The Goethe Institute of Delhi supported an exhibition of Schaefer’s cyanotypes in November 2010 at their facility and another at the Government Museum in Chandigarh with a catalogue, which offers images of both exhibitions. The Goethe Institute flew Schaefer there to speak at both openings as well as offer a cyanotype workshop at their individual institutes. Schaefer currently teaches various photography courses at New York University, and his work is handled by the Domeischel Gallery in New York City.

www.schaeferphoto.com