Nude As Form med Connie Imboden

Workshopen vil foregå på engelsk. Det vil være modeller tilgjengelig under workshopen. Vi vil fotografere på land og i vann.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Through exercises, assignments, and discussions, the goal of this workshop is to learn to use the camera as a tool to discover new ways of looking at and interpreting the human form. By looking at it as form, we will learn to develop an intuitive visual approach in photographing the body in order to see it in a new way and be truly original with this most popular subject.

Students will have the option to photograph in water. If this is something you want to try, you need to bring your bathing gear, waterproof camera or camera bag. A weight belt might come in handy.

The nude, more than any other subject, is the most popular in the history of art, and possibly the most controversial.

Artists have been fascinated with the body since the Venus de Willendorf, a small statue estimated to be over 20,000 years old, through the Greek and Roman period of idealizing the body, Michelangelo’s David, Edward Weston’s famous nudes, Robert Mapplethorpe’s explicitly erotic nudes, and through the late 20th-century views of sexualized images influenced by Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and Playboy glamour.

We already have a myriad of preconceptions as to what a nude should look like, what is a beautiful nude, what is appropriate, what is not appropriate, what is tasteless, what is offensive, and so on. All of this contributes to the nude as an incredibly powerful and popular subject, while at the same time an extremely challenging one and difficult to see in an original way.

About Connie Imboden: Connie Imboden has taught for over 30 years, as faculty at The Maryland Institute College of Art as well as instructing various workshops and institutions throughout the United States, France, the Czech Republic and the United Arab Emirates.

Her photographs have been exhibited in an extensive range of group and solo shows at galleries and museums across the Americas, Europe, and China and are in museum collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Bibliothèque Nationales in Paris, France, and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany.

Her first book entitled “Out of Darkness” with essays by Charles–Henri Favrod and A.D. Coleman, won the Silver Medal in Switzerland’s “Schonste Bucher Aus Aller Welt (Most Beautiful Book in the World)” Award in 1993. Her fourth and most recent monograph, “Reflections; 25 Years of Photography”, was published in 2009 by Insight Editions with essays by Arthur Ollman, Julian Cox and John Wood.

WORKSHOP TUITION:
NOK 8.400,- (deposit NOK 2.400)
. This does not include travel costs, accommodations or meals.

PRICE ACCOMODATION AND MEALS (breakfast/ lunch):
Shared double-room: NOK 990,- per person, per night. The price includes shared double room, breakfast, warm home-made lunch, coffee/ tea and fruit throughout your stay. To get a shared double room requires that we have another participant of your gender, that also wants to share. If we do not, you will get a private room - see price below.

Private room: NOK 1250,- per night. The price includes a private room, breakfast, warm home-made lunch, coffee/ tea and fruit throughout your stay.

Payment for accommodations and meals is done directly to SAGA, before you depart.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND REGISTRATION: http://www.nordphotography.com/workshops/nude-form