LECTURES AND ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS

The Julia Dean Photo Lecture Series
The Museum of Photographic Arts and The Julia Dean Photo Workshops are proud to collaborate with a series of workshops and lectures. Through the Julia Dean Workshops participants have the opportunity to study photography with world-renowned photographers and industry experts. Each workshop begins with a Thursday evening lecture at MoPA, open to the public.

Please visit this page again for the Fall 2008 schedule.

MoPA/Grossmont Community College Summer Lecture Series
The 2008 MoPA/Grossmont Community College Lecture and Workshop series was generously supported by George’s Camera, Grossmont College Foundation, Associated Students of Grossmont College and Colormunki Photo.

Michael Lundgren
Landscape Photography and the View Camera
July 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
$8 MoPA Members, $10 students, $12 non-members

Explore the history, aesthetics, and practice of landscape photography with Michael Lundgren in this illustrated lecture. Lundgren will discuss his own images and how he incorporates the view camera into his work.

Michael Lundgren received his BFA in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Photography in 1997 and his MFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2003, where he currently teaches. His work has been collected and exhibited internationally. In the Fall of 2008 Radius Books will be publishing a monograph of his latest body of work, Transfigurations. He is also the co-author of After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake with Mark Klett.

Stephen Berkman
Photographic Alchemy: Everything Old is New Again
The Wet-Collodion Process
July 17, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
$8 MoPA Members, $10 students, $12 non-members

Perhaps it’s no longer inconceivable, that in the near future, the only way to photograph with film will be to make it yourself. Speculating that the future of film lies in its distant past, this lecture will explore the history, the techniques, and the resurgence of the still relevant wet-collodion process. Starting in the early 1850’s, the wet-plate process, which preceded modern film manufacturing, was the dominant photographic imaging technology for approximately thirty years.

Working within the realm of both photographic and installation art, Stephen Berkman’s output revolves around the use of antiquated photographic and optical processes. Berkman’s photographic and installation works have been exhibited at MoPA, University Art Museum, Long Beach, Stephen Cohen Gallery, USC Fisher Gallery Museum, Alan Klotz Gallery, and Armory Center for the Arts. His wet-collodion photographs have been featured in the books Photography's Antiquarian Avant- Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes, The Journal of Contemporary Photography: Strange Genius and Cold Mountain: The Journey From Book to Film. Other publications include Blind Spot, Art in America, as well as the U.K. magazines Gomma and i-D, Magazine. In addition Berkman was commissioned to create tintypes for the films Cold Mountain, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Berkman was a guest speaker and re-created the Shroud of Turin for the History Channel special: Unraveling the Shroud.

Sandra C. Davis
Introduction to Cyanotype and Gum Bichromate
July 24, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
$8 MoPA Members, $10 students, $12 non-members

Discover these historic 19th century alternative processes in this lecture by Sandra C. Davis. Explore the history and the integration of Cyanotype and Gum Bichromate in Davis’ work to create a magical combination of painting and photography.

Sandra C. Davis has been teaching non-silver printmaking processes for eight years at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She also teaches non-silver printmaking and gum bichromate printing at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, Mercer County College, NJ and Peters Valley Craft Center in Layton, NJ. She recently received her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts where she has published several artist books. She has contributed to A Non-silver Manual by Sarah Van Keuren and has work published in The Book of Alternative Processes, Second Edition. Her award-winning images have been exhibited nationwide and are in public, corporate, and private collections.

Gary Schneider
The Portrait in Photography
July 31, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
$8 MoPA Members, $10 students, $12 non-members

South African photographer, Gary Schneider, has been investigating the portrait since 1975. He always used photography as method to work out his ideas, even as a painter, filmmaker, and performer. Schneider has been working solely as a photographer since 1986 and has explored the issues of photography, art, and science in his images. Join the artist as he also discusses his exhibition Flesh, on view at MoPA.

Schneider earned a BFA from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and an MFA from Pratt Institute in New York City. His books include Gary Schneider: Nudes, Gary Schneider: Portraits, and Gary Schneider: Botanical. In 1998, Schneider’s book and project entitled Gary Schneider: Genetic Self-Portrait explored the theme of identity and integrated photography and new scientific technologies. His photographs are widely collected and are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the International Center of Photography. He currently teaches at Stony Brook University in New York.

Ancient Marks: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking
Lecture by Chris Ranier
August 1, 2008
7:00 p.m., Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
Free with admission

Join Chris Rainier as he discusses is career, photographs, and book entitled Ancient Marks: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking. Rainer has traveled the world photographing the rituals and traditions related to tattoos and body markings. In the 1980s, he worked as a photographic assistant to Ansel Adams. The photographer is a contributing editor to National Geographic. Rainer will be available to sign books after his lecture.

The exhibition, Ancient Marks: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking, will be on view at the Oceanside Museum of Art from April 27 – August 24, 2008.

Humanitas: Images of India by Fredric Roberts
Lecture by Fredric Roberts
August 14, 2008
7:00 p.m., Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater
Free MoPA Members, $10 students, $12 non-members

Join Fredric Roberts as he discusses his career as photographer and the images featured in the exhibition, Humanitas. Roberts photographs ordinary life in India, from daily events to ceremonies, revealing the intimacy and community of place. Both genuine and profound, Humanitas: Images of India tells a story of beauty and grace, work and family, spirituality and devotion. Through the combination of portraiture and landscape, Roberts presents a fascinating and engaging depiction of domestic and economic life. Roberts uses color and composition exquisitely, fashioning his photographs with sensuous artistry.

 

Indian Festival Day at MoPA
Rescheduled to August 16, 2008
Free with admission
Schedule to be determined

As a complement to the exhibition, Humanitas: Images of India by Fredric Roberts, MoPA presents an Indian Festival highlighting the culture of India, in particular the region of Gujarat. Join the Gujarati Association of San Diego as they share their traditions and culture to the public.