Learning How to See: The Charles Harbutt Workshop
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The Charles Harbutt Workshop has been evolving for over thirty years. It was first given in France at the Arles Festival in 1974 and has had been given in England, Italy, Mexico, and all over the United States. For twenty years, it was a twice-yearly feature at the International Center of Photography in New York. It had been taught in a semester long version at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute and for the past ten years it has been a required course at Parsons School of Design.
This workshop will use the examples by masters of Twentieth century photography to learn what they discovered about how cameras see, and about how to make that vision express something of themselves. Each day there will be a slide lecture which will show a different component of photographic vision – lens, shutter, film/paper, and discuss their impact on how photographs “look”. Field assignments will be given daily and will be reviewed in the next class.
Having taken photography apart, students will try to discover how they can put it back together in their own unique way, to be able to find their own “look” as photographers.
Prerequisites: Portfolio review. Portfolios will be accepted at silverlens gallery until 6pm on Dec. 12, Wed.
Registration Fee: P10,000 (exclusive of materials)
Required Materials: At least 10 rolls of film or a digital camera
15 Slots Available
Sessions:
Jan. 11, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 12, Sat. 9am-5pm
Jan. 18, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 19, Sat. 9am-5pm
About the Instructor
For the first twenty years of his photographic life, Charles Harbutt was a photojournalist, working mostly through MAGNUM PHOTOS (of which he was twice president) for magazines in Europe, Japan and the United States. Since 1980, Harbutt has increasingly pursued more personal interests in photography, especially the extension of documentary into the everyday. He is a full time faculty member of the PARSONS School of Design Photography Program and a teacher at the INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY in New York City, where he lives. Mr. Harbutt is also opening his first show in the Philippines at the silverlens gallery on Jan. 10, 2008 with a mini-retrospective “Charles Harbutt”.
To Register:
816-0044 (Look for Leonore or Rica)
manage@silverlensphoto.com
50% Reservation Fee required
Balance due on first day of classes
All classes are at silverlens gallery,
2320 Pasong Tamo Ext. Makati City
www.silverlensphoto.com