Shooting Large Format Film Cameras with Anthony Hamboussi
Date: Sunday, February 28 & March 7
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $395
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This course is designed to facilitate students with the knowledge, tools and techniques needed to work with a large-format camera. The view camera, with it's unique technical and aesthetic aspects, require specific skills, methods of preparation, precision and patience. Topics will range from basic camera movements, focusing (Scheimpflug rule), choosing f-stop, selective focus, hyper-focal distance, circle of confusion, perspective control and focal plane adjustments to film exposure, handling sheet film and working with instant film. Any B&W negatives that are made in the class will be good size negatives to use for albumen printing, platinum printing, cyanotype printing & salted paper printing. All cameras, equipment and film will be supplied (unless the participant wants to work with their own camera).

Instructor Bio:
Anthony Hamboussi is a photographer. Recent projects include Newtown Creek, New York, US; Ciudad Abierta, Ritoque, Chile; Las Condes, Santiago, Chile, and La Petite Ceinture, Paris, France. Recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts independent project grants in 2003 and 2007. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts independent project grants 2008. Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program 2007 - 2008. Camera Club of NY Artist-in-Residence Program 2009. His work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, the Americas Society, the International Center of Photography, Sculpture Center, Princeton University and Arizona State University. Co-author of “Long Island City in Context” New York, Furnace Press, 2005. Mr. Hamboussi currently conducts workshops in art for children and teens for the New York City Housing Authority and teaches at the International Center of Photography.

Cyanotype Printing with Robert Schaefer
Date: Saturday, March 13
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $175
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This workshop is an investigation into the expressive possibilities of the Cyanotype. This process involves an iron-based chemical formula that creates a light sensitive emulsion. This emulsion is then painted onto art paper and exposed by placing a negative on the emulsion and making a contact print with a UV light source. This workshop will cover and demonstrate the techniques and procedures for making these aptly named blue-toned prints. Different chemistry formulas, emulsions, coating methods and paper choices will be discussed. Students should be prepared to bring in several of their own images in negative form. Medium and large format B&W negatives, paper and acetate negatives and digital negatives are all appropriate for this workshop. Limited to 8 participants.

Instructor Bio:
Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. began his photography career while studying and getting his MA Degree (Diplom Ingenieur) at the Technische Universität of Munich, Germany. With exhibitions in Munich, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Paris and Graz, he moved to New York in 1981 where he began working with alternative printing processes from the 19th Century. His particular favorite became the cyanotype which was used to print the images for his exhibitions "Blue Berlin" which was in Berlin, Germany in 1997, "Nothin' But The Blues" at the Barbara Levy Gallery in New York City in 1999 and his 25-Year Retrospective at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama (his home state) in 1999 to 2000. They were also scanned to make large giclees for his exhibition "Face Lifts" at the Charles Chamot Gallery in Jersey City in 2002, and in 2005 his cyanotype prints of cityscapes formed the exhibition "City Blues" at the Silver Eye Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. Lyle Rexer writes about Schaefer's use of cyanotype printing of architectural images in Photography's Antiquarian Avant-garde (published by Abrams in 2002). Schaefer currently teaches various photography courses at New York University and writes about photography for the on-line magazine Double Exposure (http://www.doubleexposure.com)

Instructor’s site: www.schaeferphoto.com

Introduction to Bromoil Printing with Joy Goldkind
Date: Saturday, March 20
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $255
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The Bromoil Process offers a unique way to make your images more expressive. With brushes and inks you will learn to expand your vision. Bromoil is a process which transforms a black and white silver gelatin print into a one of a kind pigment print. The print is bleached to remove the silver and harden the gelatin coating. After soaking in water, the bleached image will accept lithographic inks applied by gently pounding a stiff brush into the print. At this stage in the process practitioners can make prints of any color and as dark or light as they would like. This historic method is the only alternative process where you can use small format (35 mm) negatives to create enlarged painterly prints. This soft, emotive style of printing is wonderful for portraits, landscapes and still life images. Limited to 8 participants.

Instructor Bio:
Joy Goldkind is a fine art photographer who has studied at the International Center for Photography as well as Palm Beach Photo Center in Delray Beach, Florida. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Joy’s work is represented by some of NYC's most prestigious galleries, and her work has been shown in museums and galleries across the country. Helen Harris has reviewed her work for the NY Times. She has also been published in View Camera, Photographer's Forum and B&W magazines.

Instructor’s work: www.santafephotogallery.com

Antique Lens Discussion with Geoffrey Berliner & Eric Taubman
Date: Saturday, April 24
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $75
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In this seminar, we will discuss lenses and the uses of various designs of 19th-Century brass lenses and early 20th-Century Pictorial, Special Effect, and Soft Focus lenses, especially as they pertain to alternative photographic processes. Various formats will be covered and appropriate focal length lenses for large format shooting will be described. Participants will leave knowing how to figure out what size film or plate a particular lens will cover. Participants will learn how to differentiate between lens designs such as the Petzval, Rapid Rectilinear, Wide Angle Globe, and Diffused Focus. We will discuss how lens design effects the characteristics of the final image and how best to employ different lenses. Many antique lenses will be available for examination and for handling. Please feel free to bring in your lens for identification and suggested application for format, etc. Limited to 20 participants.

Instructor Bios:
Geoffrey Berliner has been taking pictures and collecting antique photographic images and equipment for over 20 years. He is currently the Director of the Center for Alternative Photography.

Eric Taubman has been a Wet Plate Collodion practitioner for over twelve years. He has taught numerous tintype and ambrotype workshops and specializes in the history of early 19th Century photographic optics, chemistry, and cameras. Taubman's own wet plate images range in size from ¼-plate to 20"x 24" plates. His work was featured in the Spring 2006 issue of View Camera Magazine. Over the past thirty years Taubman has been involved in the New York City photography scene as a fine art black and white printer, lab owner, teacher, and artist.

Introduction to Carbon Printing with Lisa Elmaleh
Date: Saturday & Sunday, April 24 & 25
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $395
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"During the entire period of its history," states Sandy King in The Book of Carbon and Carbro, "carbon was considered the aristocrat of printing processes." This class will be a thorough introduction to the carbon printing process, a delightfully versatile process created in 1855. The carbon process allows the printer to print in a variety of colors, tones, and on many different surfaces. Participants will learn how to make carbon tissues from gelatin, glycerin, sugar, and watercolor pigment. The carbon tissue is sensitized and exposed under a U.V. light source, then transfered to a base. Unexposed areas are washed away in warm water to reveal the base, leaving a raised exposed image. The raised texture of the exposed image is a unique and celebrated quality of the carbon print. Participants should bring large format negatives or digital negatives for contact printing.

Instructor Bio:
Lisa Elmaleh received the Silas Rhodes Scholarship to obtain a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Elmaleh is a master carbon printer for fine artists Mike and Doug Starn. Elmaleh is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship and the Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency. Prints from her wet plate collodion glass negative project, "Rooted" were included in the New York Photo Festival in 2008 in DUMBO, NY. Her work has been widely exhibited and published.

Instructor’s work: www.lisaelmaleh.com

Introduction to Bromoil Printing with Joy Goldkind
Date: Sunday, May 2
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $255
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The Bromoil Process offers a unique way to make your images more expressive. With brushes and inks you will learn to expand your vision. Bromoil is a process which transforms a black and white silver gelatin print into a one of a kind pigment print. The print is bleached to remove the silver and harden the gelatin coating. After soaking in water, the bleached image will accept lithographic inks applied by gently pounding a stiff brush into the print. At this stage in the process practitioners can make prints of any color and as dark or light as they would like. This historic method is the only alternative process where you can use small format (35 mm) negatives to create enlarged painterly prints. This soft, emotive style of printing is wonderful for portraits, landscapes and still life images. Limited to 8 participants.

Instructor Bio:
Joy Goldkind is a fine art photographer who has studied at the International Center for Photography as well as Palm Beach Photo Center in Delray Beach, Florida. She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Joy’s work is represented by some of NYC's most prestigious galleries, and her work has been shown in museums and galleries across the country. Helen Harris has reviewed her work for the NY Times. She has also been published in View Camera, Photographer's Forum and B&W magazines.

Instructor’s work: www.santafephotogallery.com

The Liquid Silver Emulsion Process with Ig Mata
Date: Saturday & Sunday, May 15 & 16
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: On location at her studio in Long Island City
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Making & Shooting Calotype Paper Negatives with Alan Greene
Date: Saturday & Sunday, May 15 & 16
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $395
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In this hands-on workshop, you will learn to use an effective nineteenth-century paper-negative technique adapted from Gustave Le Gray’s 1851 dry, waxed-paper procedure. Unlike Talbot’s original calotype process--which needed to be exposed in a dampened state immediately after being sensitized--these later procedures were far more convenient and reliable, since here the negatives could be sensitized several days prior to exposure and developed several days afterwards. All steps will be covered: whey-making, iodizing, sensitizing, exposure, development, and waxing, with historical contexts also being taken into consideration.

Instructor Bio:
Alan Greene took up the calotype process in 1998 as a reaction to digital photography. This led to his writing a technical manual, Primitive Photography, published in 2001. In 2003-2004, his paper-negative photography was featured at the Palazzo Caffarelli and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, as part of their collaborative exhibit, Roma/Rome 1850. Since then, he has contributed to Etudes photographiques, the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, and the Vocabulaire technique de la photographie. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusett.

Advanced Wet Plate Collodion with Nate Gibbons
Date: Saturday & Sunday, May 22 & 23
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
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Introduction to Salted Paper Printing with Brenton Hamilton
Date: Saturday & Sunday, June 5 & 6
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $395
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to make prints with the elegant salted paper process from the 1840's. We will investigate the rich and subtle possibilities of silver and gold metals used in this process. We will coat gelatinized paper with silver nitrate to make it light sensitize and tone with the salted paper technique. There will be ample time to practice coating, exposing and toning with gold chloride. Students should bring medium or large format negatives or digital negatives for contact printing. Limited to 8 participants.

Instructor Bio:
Brenton Hamilton received his MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design in 1992. He is the Certificate Program Director of photography at Rockport College and for 13 years has led summer workshops at The Maine Photographic Workshops. His teaching specialties include B&W craft and Historic Processes and the History of Photography. Hamilton’s own work is inspired by the 19th century, a principle area of research and inspiration for him as an historian and printmaker. Devoted to the cyanotype, Hamilton's embellished images are exhibited nationally and were published in the recent 2005 Columbia Journal. Current projects include OBSCURA, a magazine devoted to contemporary issues.

Instructor’s work: www.brentonhamiltonstudio.net

Introduction to Wetplate Collodion Printing onto Metal & Glass with Keliy Anderson-Staley
Date: Saturday & Sunday, June 12 & 13
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $395
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This printing workshop is for photographers and artists who have shot a lot of great images with film or digital cameras and want to see how their images would look as tintypes or ambrotypes. The class will not be a shooting class, rather, we will cover the entire process of printing from slides, chromes and digital positive transparencies onto wet plate collodion tintypes and ambrotypes in the darkroom. We will use conventional black and white enlargers to print positive images onto blackened metal or glass. Students will make the glass and metal light sensitive by coating it with collodion and silver nitrate. Prints will be developed immediately after exposing with an enlarger. Participants who have used the wet plate process in camera will be well prepared for this class, but we also welcome photographers who have not yet experimented with the wet plate collodion processes or who have not been in a darkroom for years. Everyone in the workshop will be able to print multiple images on a variety of plate sizes, up to 8x10". Registrants are asked to bring in 35 mm to 4x5 slides, chromes, or positive images printed onto inkjet negative film such as Pictorico or Inkpress brands. All other materials will be provided. Limited to 6 participants.

Instructor Bio:
Keliy Anderson-Staley has worked with the nineteenth-century wet plate collodion process for over five years. She received a BA from Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, and an MFA from Hunter College, in NYC. She has taught the tintype process at The Center for Alternative Photography in NYC, at Hampshire College and at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. She was a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellow and she was in the A.I.M. 28 program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her tintypes have been published in New York Magazine her work and is currently being exhibited in California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.

Instructor's site: www.andersonstaley.com

Platinum & Palladium Printing with Carl Weese
Date: Saturday & Sunday, July 10 & 11
Time: 10:00am – 6:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $395
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This two-day workshop will concentrate on Pt/Pd printing on hand-coated paper, working from large format film negatives. No prior experience is necessary: beginners can work with supplied teaching negatives. More advanced workers can bring their own negatives. We will begin with a classroom session explaining how to expose and develop negatives for Pt/Pd printing. This will be followed by a demonstration of the coating, drying, exposing, and processing of a platinum print. After that, all participants will begin to make their own prints. Traditional develop-out printing and Printing Out Paper (Ziatype) methods will both be explored. Beginners will finish the workshop with a basic grounding in Pt/Pd technique and enough experience to continue to practice on their own. All paper, chemistry, and equipment will be provided.

Instructor Bio:
Carl Weese was born in 1949 and grew up in New Jersey. From 1972 to the present, Weese has worked as a freelance photo-illustrator for editorial and corporate clients. His personal photographs have been widely exhibited in group and one-person shows and he is represented by galleries in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington and Virginia. Weese is a contributing editor to PhotoTechniques magazine. He is co-author of the 1998 book The New Platinum Print, an instruction manual on modern approaches to the classic platinum/palladium photographic printing process.

Instructor's site: www.carlweese.com

Shooting Antique Film Cameras with Andrew French
Date: Date To Be Announced
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $175
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This is a one-day workshop focusing on the use and practice of antique film cameras. We will be shooting on many 20th century camera models including Rolleiflex, Polaroid Land Camera, and Graflex. The class will shoot black and white film and instant fuji film which will be supplied. Participants are encouraged to bring in any cameras that may be sitting on their shelves in order for the instructor to look at them and give advice about how to convert them for use in the 21st century. In this hands-on workshop students will learn how to use antique cameras and will witness the various outcomes of each camera. All are welcome.

Instructor Bio:
Andrew French is a NYC Photographer and Educator; he has been teaching classes at the International Center for Photography for over a decade. His client list includes Coach, Microsoft, Esquire, Smart Money, and Food and Wine, among others.

Introduction to Albumen Printing with Daniel Levin
Date: Date To Be Announced
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $450
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This course offers an introduction to the dominant printing process from the 1870's to the 1890's. The Albumen process is done by coating drawing paper with egg whites and then making it light sensitive in a silver bath. A large digital, film or glass negative is placed on top of the coated paper in a contact frame and exposed with UV light. Its many finicky steps become well worth the effort upon success. The results are handmade prints that rival platinum in tonal range and the use of egg whites produces a glossy surface sheen. The print color is variable from warm sepia to slate gray with gold toning. Participants should be prepared to bring medium or large format glass, film, or digital negatives with them to contact print with the Albumen process. All other supplies will be provided. Limited to 8 participants.

Instructor Bio:
Daniel Levin, a Manhattan-based photographer, received his BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Levin is a master albumen and cyanotype printer employed by fine art photographer John Dugdale. His fine art prints have been exhibited and published across the United States and Europe.

How to Collect Antique Photographic Images with Thomas Harris
Date: Date To Be Announced
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016
Price: $75
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This will be an informal seminar about collecting small format photography focusing primarily on the following 19th century formats: Daguerreotypes, Cartes de Visite (CDVs), Tintypes, Ambrotypes, Stereoviews, Cabinet Cards and ending with an introduction to collecting 20th century snapshots. This will be a "hands-on" study seminar where actual images will be shown and examined by participants. An understanding of the evolution of photographic formats will be covered as well as the philosophy of collecting, i.e., why collect, what to collect, and how to collect. The image next to this class description is of Belle Freeman, actress, New York City. CDV ca. 1863.

Instructor Bio:
Thomas Harris has been collecting and dealing vintage photography with an emphasis on fine art and history for nearly 20 years. He lives in New York City.

Instructor's site: www.earlyphotographs.com

Digital Negative Printing with Keliy Anderson-Staley
Date: Date To Be Announced
Location: 36 East 30 Street NY, NY 10016

Private Tutorials

The Center for Alternative Photography offers a number of one-to-one learning opportunities. Private tutorials are ideal for someone whose schedule doesn’t allow them to take our regularly scheduled workshops. We offer private tutorials in almost any of the processes listed above. Some of our past students who have come for private tutorial have had a specific problem or project that they are working on. Most two day private tutorials are $1000 and a one day tutorial is $500