Still Life Photography

Still Life Photography

6 Week Class ONLINE | This course has been canceled

Introduction

May 17, 2022-June 21, 2022

1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Tue

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$280.00 CAD

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This introductory online course explores the field and function of still life photography. We cover its historical and conceptual development in painting, and then study a wide range of photo-based artists, including Jan Groover, Awol Erizku, Laura Letinsky, Leslie Hewitt, Willa Nasatir, David Goldes, and others. Weekly assignments, lectures and readings guide students through various approaches to the genre, using recurring conventions, motifs, props, objects, backgrounds, lighting styles and arrangements. Students will spend time creating their own tabletop still life scenarios and focusing on challenging themselves aesthetically and conceptually; to examine their relationship to the objects and the world around them.

Base Tuition: $280

  • What You Will Learn:

    - Learn the basics of practical techniques for still life photography including choosing objects, backgrounds and tabletop scenarios

    - Learn camera settings and techniques for studio shooting

    - Learn fundamental lighting techniques and take you through the steps of designing a still life setup

    - Learn the historical context of the still life genre in painting and early photography along with contemporary artists pushing the genre

  • - Access to computer with Zoom/Internet

    - DSL camera

    - SD or CF memory cards

    - Tripod

    - External hard drive

    - fabric or roll of large paper for backgrounds (various colours)

    - Props (objects, flowers, food etc…)

    - Natural light/window access

    - Optional: Access to clamp lights, or studio strobe lighting

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Thalmann, Jessica

Jessica is an artist and educator currently based in Toronto and New York City. She received an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College and a BFA in Visual Arts from York University. Thalmann has taught at the International Centre for Photography, Akin Collective, MacLaren Art Centre, Toronto School of Art, Gallery 44 and City College of New York.  She has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada, and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a recipient of grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, International Centre for Photography, Camera Club of New York Baxter St, and Humble Arts Foundation (New York), VIVO Media Arts Centre (Vancouver), Museum of Contemporary Art, Harbourfront Centre, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Angell Gallery, Gallery TPW, Art Spin, and Gales Gallery at York University (Toronto).