This is an intensive, hands-on workshop that is designed so you will leave with a solid understanding of the wet plate tintype collodion process, thereby enabling you to continue when you return home. In this workshop you will learn to make tintypes (tin plate direct positives). In addition to learning how to pour, expose and develop your plates, You will also learn how to mix the necessary chemical formulas. All chemistry and cameras will be provided for the class. In addition each student will be given a handbook that lists all chemical formulas and step by step instructions.
In the second half of this four day workshop, attendees will learn how to reproduce a tintype using direct image scanning and a subset of the Piezography black & white inkjet process to replicate the works in a way that is both satisfying and original.We will provide all equipment, including cameras. Unless participants want to use their own camera, even then we will provide a plate holder for their use. Each student will have 12 plates to work with. You should bring with you: An apron and either safety glasses or safety goggles. We will supply latex gloves.
The workshop takes place at Cone Editions Press in East Topsham, Vermont, Sept 16-20, 2013 and is limited to just six attendees. You are encourage to stay at the Behind The Times B&B which is within walking distance to Cone Editions Press. You will be shooting on our 30 acres and surrounding lands which includes pastural scenes, apple orchards, cow barns, waterfalls, and Vermont village life.
Instructors:
Craig J. Barber is a photographer who travels and works using antiquarian processes and focuses on the cultural landscape. For over 15 years he has focused his camera on Viet Nam, Havana, and the Catskill region of New York State, documenting cultures in rapid transition and fading from memory. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America and is represented in several prominent museum and private collections. In 2006 Umbrage Editions published his book, "Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited."
Jon Cone in addition to being the inventor of Piezography, has been a Master Printer since 1980 when he founded Cone Editions Press. Cone has produced many memorable projects including Gordon Parks' Half Past Autumn for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Richard Avedon's In Memory of the Late Mr. & Mrs. Comfort, and Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow Nomadic Museum Exhibitions. Cone is a photographer who combines digital photography with antique lenses.
Cathy Cone received her training at Ohio University, Vermont Studio center, and Maine Media Workshops. She is a graduate of the Suluk Academy.She is a practicing painter and photographer and awarded a Vermont Fellowship grant. Some exhibitions include Wiesman Art Musuem, University of Albama, HBO Corporate Gallery, AVA Gallery, and the DeCordova Museum. Cathy is an innovator combining large format digital printing, paint and photography. Her works are in the collection of IBM, Hallmark, MCI, CitiGroup, American Express.
Dana Ceccarelli is both the production printer at Cone Editions Press as well as Technical Manager at InkjetMall. Dana brings a lot of experience and energy to the table with one hand firmly in the pot of Epson technical support and methodology issues and the other hand in the pot of imaging, scanning, production and printmaking.
