Some information about my summer, 2012 photography workshops in Tuscany and Venice.
 

 

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Email Jeff jeff@jeffcurto.com

Photographer Robert Frank said, “It is always an instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.” Reading that quote in a wonderful essay by noted photographer and art historian Gretchen Garner, I also noted her idea that photographers respond to the world with gestures that are different from those that painters use. As Garner puts it, “Indeed, my belief is that in many ways, fine photography is more purely intellectual, purely visual, because the gestures involved are less connected to hand gestures but much more connected to intense observation, to harder seeing.”

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• Gretchen Garner’s website and her essay The Photographic Gesture
• Robert Frank
• Edward Weston

Passion for the medium is, in the end, the thing that keeps us going. This episode of Camera Position discusses passion and its strange bedfellow, direction. Thanks to photographer and friend Al DaValle for providing some inspiration for this podcast in the form of an email.

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• Al DaValle’s website
• Al DaValle in LensWork Extended
• Jeff’s Italy Photography Workshops

The Gallery Photographica Exhibition, which opened March 3 at the Michelle O’Connor Gallery in San Francisco is showing some really excellent photographs. While I can’t highlight all the great photographs that are in the show, I wanted to comment on a few of the photographs that really impacted me as I selected the work. I will be at the gallery the evening of Saturday, March 24, 2012 for a reception that is planned as a part of the Society for Photographic Education conference in San Francisco.

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Photographers profiled in this podcast include:

• Barbara Beltramello
• Charles Corda
• Miri Davidovitz
• Patricia Eichert
• Marco Ferraris
• Sandra Chen Weinstein

This episode examines the three “prizewinner” photographs for the Gallery Photographica exhibition and competition. Photographs by Micah Garen, Diane Fox & Edie Fogel are highlighted and examined.

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• Gallery Photographica
• Micah Garen website
• Diane Fox website
• Edie Fogel website
• Jeff’s Italy Photography Workshops – photograph & learn in Tuscany and Venice this summer!