CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
SATURDAY JUNE 23
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Panel Discussion: The Center for Alternative Photography/The Penumbra Foundation
This lecture will feature five of our teaching artists. Each artist will give a brief presentation and discussion of their work. This lecture will serve as an introduction to the history and initiatives of the Penumbra Foundation and the Center for Alternative Photography. Geoffrey Berliner, Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation, will be giving a brief presentation about the exciting facilities, programs, and offerings at the Penumbra Foundation and the Center for Alternative Photography. There will be a question and answer session following the lecture.
Panelists: Dan Estabrook, NW Gibbons, Robert Schaefer, Morgan Post, and Lisa Elmaleh.
SUNDAY JUNE 24
11:00am - 1:30 pm / 2:30pm - 5:00pm
Tintype Photo Booth
If you are looking for a portrait photograph that captures the passion of your unique, individual personality, step into our portable tintype photo booth and experience the magic of this 19th century photographic process! Popular during the mid-to-late 1800’s, the tintype portrait is made by coating a sheet of blackened metal with collodion. The tintype is then sensitized in a bath of silver nitrate, and exposed and processed immediately.
Each portrait session will last about 15 minutes. The tintypes will be prepared, exposed and developed on site and you will be able to view the portrait immediately. The tintypes will then be varnished, and you will walk away with a one-of-a-kind 4x5 portrait.
Cost: $35, or $30 for Penumbra Foundation members.
SATURDAY JUNE 30
10:00am - 5:00pm
One Day Tintype Workshop
This will be an intensive one-day introduction to the tintype process that was the leading mode of photography in the 1850′s and 1860′s. The process must be completed while the plate is wet; the images are exposed, developed, fixed and the beauty and uniqueness of the process is viewable within minutes. Workshop participants will learn how to create tintypes in camera. We will discuss chemical mixing and safety. Students will learn the techniques of preparing the plate, pouring collodion, exposing, developing, fixing, and varnishing. Workshop participants will be using 4"x 5" wooden reproduction wet plate cameras with antique brass lenses. All materials including cameras, chemicals, and metal will be supplied.
Cost: $250 + $50 materials fee
Register here: http://capsworkshops.org
SUNDAY JULY 1
11:00am - 1:30 pm / 2:30pm - 5:00pm
Tintype Photo Booth
If you are looking for a portrait photograph that captures the passion of your unique, individual personality, step into our portable tintype photo booth and experience the magic of this 19th century photographic process! Popular during the mid-to-late 1800’s, the tintype portrait is made by coating a sheet of blackened metal with collodion. The tintype is then sensitized in a bath of silver nitrate, and exposed and processed immediately.
Each portrait session will last about 15 minutes. The tintypes will be prepared, exposed and developed on site and you will be able to view the portrait immediately. The tintypes will then be varnished, and you will walk away with a one-of-a-kind 4x5 portrait.
Cost:$35, or $30 for Penumbra Foundation members.
About Center for Alternative Photography:
The Penumbra Foundation is a member supported non-profit organization devoted to preserving historical and emulsion based photography and maintaining its relevance as an artistic and educational tool in the evolving digital age. The Center for Alternative Photography (CAP) is our workshop based educational program developed 10 years ago from which the Penumbra Foundation was established. CAP teaches historical, emulsion, and alternative photographic processes.
Our mission is to be a comprehensive resource for photographers at any level; artists, students, professionals, historians, researchers, conservationists and curators who want to learn, practice and research these photographic arts and processes. We also endeavor to continue to publicize the impact photography has had and continues to have on culture, history and the arts.
Our goals are to develop a community based institution that will make available our resources to the greater photographic community, general public, members, students, educators, artists, photographers, professionals, like-minded organizations and institutions, and to develop more programs that fulfill our mission.
