Dear Acorners,
Those who wish to add photography to their repertoire of
research and representation skills -- or to their artistic practice
-- will find this workshop with Jeff Berner a valuable opportunity.
Jeff Berner is one of the pioneers of Fluxus and intermedia.
In the early 1960s, his "Astronauts of Inner Space" courses
at the University of California's San Francisco campus helped
to launch the cultural ferment of the era -- along with his work
as publisher of Lenore Kandel's Love Book and as a radical
artistic columnist for the otherwise square San Francisco
Chronicle. It was a different era, friends, and Jeff Berner
was one of the people who helped to make it happen.
Berner also made revolutionary contributions to education
as co-founder of the San Francisco State College Experimental
College. The first such institution located within the body of
a major accredited university, the EC became a model for
several hundred such projects on college and university
campuses across the United States and Canada, where they
served as incubators for new courses, new teaching methods,
and new approaches to learning. (As the EC's dean for the
arts and humanities, Jeff gave me my start in college
teaching.)
Now an award-winning photographer, Jeff Berner shares his
approach in this workshop.
Highly recommended!
Ken Friedman
--
September 10-17 Creative Loitering in the Lot: Awakening Vision
Photography Workshop
Registration deadline: April 1, 2005:
Visit the course site at:
www.latitude.org
SEPTEMBER 10 -17 Creative Loitering in the Lot: Awakening Vision
photography workshop (in English). Instructor: Jeff Berner, renowned
and award-winning photographer (including two portrait prizes from
Life magazine) lives in Paris and Northern California where he has
also exhibited. He is author of a dozen books, including The
Photographic Experience (Doubleday/Anchor), and his work has been
published in French, Chinese, and Swedish as well as English. He is
an experienced workshop leader in several countries., including the
US (Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA; Hawaii); Italy (Tuscany), and
France (Paris). About this workshop, Jeff says: "We'll go on
non-strenuous photo safaris, and there will be creative group-- or
private -- critiques . The concluding evening will feature a
multi-media show of our best images, with music. .What we learn can
be applied not only to your future print, slide film or digital
photography but also to painting and drawing." Easy-going projects
include the following:
* Looking at Seeing
* The Psychology of Lenses
* The Selective Eye (Composition)
* Depth-of-Field
* The Click that "Kills"
* Creative Accidents
* Visual Meditation
* Expressing Color.
Jeff's teaching spirit (in a nutshell) is reflected by the author of
The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski: "It is important that students
bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies;
they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it."
Note: Participants use their own digital cameras. Each evening, the
day's work is projected. There will be a few "loaner" cameras
available.
Or call: Jeff Berner
USA (707) 878-2000
through March 10.
Jeff Berner
USA (707) 878-2000
PARIS: From USA: 011-33-1-4326-6054