DIGITALworkshops

Members: $1025.00 • Non-members: $1095.00
Prerequisites: The Digital Fine Print

A masterpiece is the result of an artist’s individual authentic genius. That authenticity creates presence, the final result of light working on the forms of an object or scene. An examination of all great master painters and photographers in history shows that this specific relationship of light on form creating presence in the print is the key element of an authentic masterpiece. This workshop advocates this relationship and lays out the perceptual and technical skills necessary to practice and achieve presence.

The workshop starts with a detailed explanation of presence and shows how it operates in both old master paintings and photographs. We take the idea that both the painter and the photographer must change the world to represent the reality they see, and we describe this process and the techniques and tools for accomplishing it. The last two days will be spent on printing inkjet photographs for presence achieved in the images. This workshop encompasses very advanced perceptual practice with simple tools. The reason behind this thinking is that we, as artists and photographers, are the creators of a masterpiece and therefore our perceptual abilities must be honed to an infinitesimal degree. Our tools should be simple, elegant, and few, and yet complete enough to create any effect of light and form we need to produce presence. Advanced seeing, simple tools.

Intermediate knowledge of Photoshop CS3, digital camera operation, and basic printing skills are requirements for this workshop. The B&W Master Print is intended as the next step beyond the basic Digital Fine Print workshop.

GEORGE DeWOLFE has been a photographer since the mid-1960’s. He studied photography with Ansel Adams and Minor White in the 1970’s, and perception with Dr. Richard Zakia. He holds an MFA in Photography and Graphic Art from the Rochester Institute of Technology. George has published widely, most notably At Home In The Wild, on New Hampshire’s White Mountains edited by David Brower and George DeWolfe’s Digital Photography Fine Print Workshop. He has had numerous one-man and group exhibitions, is in several permanent collections, is currently Senior Editor for Camera Arts, and consultant to Epson, Adobe, Hahnemühle and other companies.
He teaches The Digital Fine Print Workshop, Black and White Master Print and Contemplative Photography throughout the United States. George’s new book, Black and White Master Print, will be published in 2008.

Website: http://www.georgedewolfe.com