Photography WORKSHOP
 
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Alternative Photo Workshop I
Instructor: Dean  Ebben
 

Learn new techniques; add photographic images to your work without the use of a darkroom. You can make a cyanotype anywhere if you have sun and water. In this workshop, you will explore Cyanotype and Acrylic Lifts and Transfers. These process are great for anyone who has wanted to use photography in their: book making, painting, sculpture, or even quilting.

 
 
 
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  Studio & Material Fee:
 

Material fee covers:

  • Formulary Liquid Cyanotype This kit will produce 24 8x10 prints. (I will have extra to sell if needed)
  • Trisodium Phosphate (TSP)
  • Lipton or generic black tea bags
  • Acrylic Gloss and Matte Medium
  • Two 11" X 14" pieces of non-UV Plexi glass. (Students will be able to keep their Plexi glass.)
  • Utility vats
  • Miscellaneous studio supplies
  • THE SUN!
 
  Student Supplies:
  Students should bring the following supplies:
Cyanotype & Cyanotype Toning
  • 4 small steal spring clamps
  • Hydrogen peroxide
  • Rubber gloves, apron
  • Foam paint brush (no metal)
  • Hairdryer
  • Plastic cup (for cyanotype)
  • News print (good for transporting wet prints)
  • Dust mask
  • Black tea bags
 Medium to expose negative onto:
  • Paper (Hot press cotton rag or watercolor paper. Paper must be sized)
  • Fabric (must be natural fiber and pre-washed)
  • Any other natural, pours, and smooth material can work.
Negatives:
  • Acetate transparencies (Make photocopies at the copy shop. Copies can be reversed to create a negative if you want a positive reading image. You can also invert your image in Photoshop and work with contrast).
  • Acetate or any other transparent material you can draw on to create your own negative.
  • Objects (to create a resist to light).
Acrylic Lift and Transfers
  • Medium soft bristle paintbrush or foam paintbrush
  • Scissors
  • Plastic cup (to hold medium)
  • Paper (cotton rag hot press)
  • Fabric (tightly woven fabric with little nap)
  • Acetate (optional)
For the acrylic, transfer experiment with any, smooth surface to receive transfer.
  • Plastic, plexiglas, wood, objects.
  • Color photocopies (to lift or transfer)
  • B & W photo copies (to lift or transfer)
  • Magazine images (glossy images work the best. Magazine covers do not work)
 
  Optional Supplies:
  None recommended.
   
 
 
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION
 




   
 
   

registration
 
Program Details
 
 
Date: 8/12/2010 to
8/13/2010
Time: 9:30 AM-
4:30 PM
Level: All Levels
Min/Max: 8/15
 
  Fees
 
 
Registration Fee $295.00
Studio & Material Fee $85.00
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about the instructor
 

Dean Ebben received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA, where he studied sculpture and papermaking, and received his MFA with distinction from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where he studied video and installation.

Ebben has been working as an artist in New York City for the last 12 years. He has worked with and collaborated with Alison Knowles one of the original founders of Fluxus. His work is in many public and private collections; he has exhibited his work internationally. Ebben has taught at: the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, MN; Carriage House Paper in Brooklyn, NY; and the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan.

Ebben has been making cyanotypes and using alternative photo and printmaking techniques for well over a decade. He uses cyanotype as a way to record the “geist” of an object, and relies on the sun and the rotation of the earth to make his sun drawings. He is currently working on two cyanotype artist books titled Earth Days and Storm. He uses found objects and text to create a resist to light. The text in the book is the accumulation of three years of writing. He will bind this intimate quarto using a modified Japanese four-hole binding.

In 1999, Ebben collaborated with Amanda Degener (founder of Cave Paper) on an alternative photography portfolio for Hand Paper Magazine, Old Ways, New Views: Photographic Processes on Handmade Paper. The portfolio included seventeen juried artworks produced by twenty-five respected papermakers and photographers. In 2002 Ebben completed a public sculpture commission titled Waiting, for the Church of the Holy Family, The United Nations Parish in Manhattan. In 2007 he was awarded a video residence at the Outpost in Brooklyn, NY where he worked with professional editors and sound technicians on his videos.

Most recently Ebben was included in an exhibition, titled Altered Religious Texts at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York City, and is preparing for an exhibition at Susan Hensel Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.
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