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weekly program

Monday: On site class in VIlla Borgese. From Fiorentini.
Tuesday: Print session - Optional from 10 to 1 a.m
Wednesday: Print session and framing.

Talking about photography

During the last lesson, which was quite eventful, you gained experience working with each other.

Aglaia and Leonardo, weren't only the “objects” of your shootings, but also the subjects. They not only exhibited themselves but I would say the offered themselves.

Not just simple puppets, they even in some ways directed the shooting.  This was the interesting thing.

As in a “game” between two people pulling a cord between themselves and creating as much tension as possible without breaking it, so photography allows in its action a growth of conscience of the self and the other.

In Italian the work of the photographer is called “servizio fotografico”. So very different in english where the expression used is “photoshoot”.

I have to say that in this case the italian expression is much closer to the sense that I love to give to the work of photographing.

The quality of the relationship between who photographs and who is being photographed is implicit  in the expression “Servizio”.

The photographer offers himself so that whoever is being photographed benefits. The photographer does not present himself  as the executioner of a “ritual”, but rather as the person who allows the subject to present themselves in such a way that their self awareness is increased. To observe yourself, to measure yourself, to acknowledge yourself and to know yourself.

That is why I like the expression “SERVIZIO fotografico”.

The expression “Shoot”,is surely more apt for a type of photography in which the photographer takes the aim; it has a very “military” ring to it.

Even Henry Cartier Bresson used to say that a photograph: “is to put in the same line of sight the mind, the eyes and the heart. A way of living”. An approach to the whole context that has certainly produced some masterpieces, but to which I personally feel remote.

Il vero - l’immaginario” The Real and the Unreal

Il vero - l’immaginario”       The Real and the Unreal  

A group of young people hunt for the right spot and the right instant, for the fleeting color awaiting their attention. They don't photograph what they see for what it is in itself, but rather they set into motion a change of meaning, pushing the objective toward the symbolic.
For the one who takes pictures, this is not a neutral process. But do neutral processes even exist for those who make works or objects of art?

Whatever the experience of the author, whatever the technique in use, and even when falling short of the status of art, the object produced is the product of a powerful, changeable subjectivity.
Thus John, photographing in color with the Nikon pinhole, shows us presences from outer space in the ancient city. (Literary precedents come to mind, such as Ennio Flaiano's Un marziano a Roma.) Emily indeed finds a flying saucer landing next to the Tevere.
Each of these young photographers has begun to understand that with a digital camera, or even with the slow procedure of the large-format view camera, or even more, with the pinhole camera, we can recharge reality with a metaphorical, even metaphysical sense.  Most of all, they have learned to respect the time needed for attentive observation, dedicating themselves to whatever it is they are observing, be it a plant, stone, or face, reproducing a reality that only superficially resembles the real, and often creating a truth that is objective and imaginative at the same time.
 
Photo exhibition by students of John Cabot University's July courses in photojournalism, digital and analog (pinhole) photography.

Professors Serafino Amato, Donald  Winslow,  and Jochem Schoneveld 
 
location of the exhibition: Studio 9

Via della Moretta
Direttore Patrizia Rufini

Monday, July 29, 6:30 p.m.

Monday and Wednesday class

On Monday we will work at Fiorentini to check the pinhole cameras.
Inside and outside we will check the exposure.

Print session in the dark room and film developing process

Still life pictures with the pinhole and the 4x5 inches camera

On Wednesday the actress Aglaia Mora will be with us for a Photo Session

Dear Students

As you've seen in these first two weeks of lessons, (sorry if they were a bit tiring) every action has produced a result.
We didn't just photograph what we were seeing, but we performed a change of meaning.
We pushed  the objectivity towards a type of symbolism.
Not a neutral process for the person who photographs.
But there is no neutral process in the realization of a work of art, no matter what technique you're using.
Even if ours are not works of art we have added a subjective interpretation.
And so John, upon my suggestion of making a color photograph with the nikon pinhole, captured "alien" presences in the ancient city. ( there are literary references that speak of this, Ennio Flaiano wrote something called "A Martian in Rome"-"Un marziano a Roma")
Emily even showed a 'flying saucer 'landing.

Me too, in the portraits I did of Pio, with Eva's camera, on a graffiti background, i showed the vulgarity and the non neutrality of the background and the strong manipulative power of the photographic genre.  Sometimes used in a dangerous way in journalistic contexts.

Everyone of you has begun to understand that such a slow means, (like the big format camera or even more so, the pinhole)gives back a metaphoric and sometimes even a metaphysical sense to reality.
A reproduction of reality that only looks like reality on the surface, but which doesn't have the sole purpose of reproducing  reality as it is.

We could (should) discuss this together.
Even in a short course, you have jumped with both feet into the problematics of art using a very simple technical tool.

Thank you for your attentive presence and participation.

Select your photogrpher

Stephen Shore

Simplicity. This is a plain, standard photo that is made interesting because of the colors and reflections.

Going along with his philosophy, this is a boring photo of a billboard that is interesting because of the image on the billboard that blends in with the scenery.

Once again, this is just a living room, but the objects and the old style of the room are interesting to look at.

John Krzmarzick

an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.

Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty years. He was the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier. He has also had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work.

Gianni Berengo Gardin

Herbert Listz

Cindy Sherman

Helmut Newton

Diane Arbus

 

Jonathan Gulo - Diane Arbus was an American photographer that was mostly known for her square, or medium format, photographs of not exactly regular people. She photographed dwarfs, giants, circus freaks, nudists and other sorts of people. She originally was an art director before taking up photography as a full time profession. Using a twin lens reflex Rolleiflex camera, she photographed plenty of famous images. However, she would later commit suicide at the age of 48 in 1971.

Ugo Mulas

Katie

Annie Leibovitz

Katie: this photo is very well designed because of the lines that exist within the photograph. There are two very strong lines and these include the line that the model is creating with her body and the curved line that is created by the waterfall.  The line that the waterfall creates brings the viewer into the picture therefore making them active.  I like this photo because there is a sense of movement within the photo and I also like the color scheme.

This photo is more abstract compared to the rest of her photographs.  The light wardrobe of the subjects draws your attention too them.  Also there are both veritcal and horizantal lines that exists in the photo.  The horizantal line is created by the table and the subject that is laying on the table.  While this is a studio photograph, I like how artistic it is.

This is another photograph that uses the same color scheme and is almost monochromatic.  The background plays a big role in this photo because the colors in the background exist on the subject as well.

shutter speed

also called exposure time

amount of time the shutter exposes the film to light

if shutter speed is too long then picture can come out too bright of possibly blurry and can create a ghost effect

if shutter speed is too slow then not enough light will reach the film and it will be too dark

Telephoto Lens

created around 1940

has a long focus that extends the light path to create a long focus in a smaller lens

different types of telephoto include medium telephoto and super telephoto

super telephoto lens covers fewer degrees than a medium telephoto

the lens magnifies the image and creates a shorter focal length

Depth of Field

distance between nearest and farthest object in a scene that appears acceptably sharp in an image.

large depth of field is when all objects are in focus

shallow depth of field mean maybe only one object is in focus or even a part of the object

The zoom and apeture within the picture can control the depth of field