Category: Photography

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers ?>

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (Tokyo Monogatari) follows an aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, on their journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, postwar Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tomi falls ill she and Sukichi return home, while the children, grief-stricken, hasten to be with her. From a simple tale unfolds one of the greatest of all Japanese films. Starring Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, the film reprises one of the director’s favorite themes—that of generational conflict—in a way that is quintessentially Japanese and yet so universal in its appeal that it continues to resonate as one of cinema’s greatest masterpieces.

Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and the participants in the 2012-2013 Documentary Photography: Japan course for a screening of Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story.
Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story, 1953
Friday, December 7, 2012, 6 PM
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24H
For more information please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

R (Documentary Photography: Italy 2012 Book Release) ?>

R (Documentary Photography: Italy 2012 Book Release)

R
By Tessa Abrahams, Corina Aparicio, Emily Atwood, Massiel Garcia, Cecilia Iliesiu, Jacklyn Krakowski, Donovan Longo, Joseph Mottola, Catherine Murphy, Michael, Raganella, Jacqueline Tozzi, Aubrey Vollrath, Jessica Wendroff, Xuan Zheng; Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton

R is the final culmination of the 2012 course “Documentary Photography: Italy” offered by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton through the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts at Fordham University.

The book is 174 pages, 10×8 inches (25×20 cm), with four-color printing and can be ordered in softcover, or hardback in a range of paper grades. Preview the entire book here.

The course description is as follows:

A sampling of photographs from participants in the Fordham University 2012 Documentary Photography: Italy program. Over the course of one month in Rome this intensive class introduced students to the basic and advanced techniques of image production with a major emphasis on generating documentary projects directly relating to the people, architecture, and culture of Italy.

The cosmopolitan city of Rome, rich with artistic history, served as the source for our photographic explorations, as well as the catalyst for discussions addressing the historical significance of the documentary impulse. Our studies and production brought us from exhibitions in progressive contemporary art galleries, to the ancient architecture of the Colosseum as we utilized the wealth of visual stimuli as a resource, as well as a backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that documentarians utilize in communicating their interests.

For further information please contact: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers ?>

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

“The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I’ll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black lead-in; if they don’t see happiness in the picture, at least they’ll see the black.”
Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and the participants in the 2012-2013 Documentary Photography: Japan course for a screening of Chris Marker’s 1983 film, Sans Soleil. Documentary? Travelogue? Essay-film? Come see and decide for yourself.
Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, 1983
Friday, October 19, 2012
6 pm until 9 pm
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24H
For more information please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

Documentary Photography: Japan 2012-2013 ?>

Documentary Photography: Japan 2012-2013

This intensive class is designed as a platform for intermediate and advanced level students to further develop their photographic production with an emphasis on generating documentary projects focusing on the people, culture, and architecture of Japan.
The megacity of Tokyo will serve as the starting point for our investigations, with image making itineraries that will take us from the cosmopolitan ward of Shinjuku, to the center of youth culture in Shibuya; and from the cutting edge fashion districts of Harajuku, to the temples and shrines of Asakusa. Concurrent with our photographic explorations we will examine contemporary exhibitions in venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, as well as view the ancient collections housed in Japan’s oldest and largest museum, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno.

Traveling by Shinkansen bullet train at 300 km/h (186 mph), we will make our way south to Kyoto, the nexus of traditional Japanese culture and history with approximately two thousand temples, shrines, and gardens that we can utilize as both the catalyst and stage for our photography. The extraordinary wealth of visual stimuli we will experience in Japan over ten days will certainly inspire, as well as function as the backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that photographers employ in communicating their interests.

The course will conclude in New York City during the spring semester where participants will work together with the instructor to edit, design, and produce a professional quality book of their photographic projects, including essays detailing the richness of their experience abroad. Prior to traveling to Japan there will be relevant readings and film screenings to serve as preliminary introductions to aspects of Japanese culture. Japanese language skills are not a prerequisite; however, prior completion of Photography One (VART 1124), or Digital Photography (VART 1128) is essential. Class meeting times are demanding and participation in the course necessitates a healthy attitude towards exceptional amounts of walking.

The latest 2011-2012 book:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3286333

The 2010-2011 book:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2177501

VART 3001 – Documentary Photography: Japan 
Dates: 12/27/2012 – 01/06/2013 
Credits: 4
For more information, please contact Professor Apicella-Hitchcock at apicellahit@fordham.edu 

The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off ?>

The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off

The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off
Lipani Gallery, Fordham University Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street (SL24)
New York, New York 10023
August 3, 2012 to September 20, 2012
Closing Reception September 18, 2012 6:00 to 8:00 PM

Organized by Anibal Pella-Woo and Daniel Willner

Participating Photographers:
Inbal Abergil
Tanyth Berkeley
Antonio Chirinos
Michael Chovan-Dalton
Kai McBride
Katherine McVety
Claudio Nolasco
Anibal Pella-Woo
Preston Rescigno
Dennis Santella
Daniel Willner
Johanna Wolfe
For artists of such solitary practice, photographers spend a lot of time in conversation. Most often, we speak through our work, responding to the precedent of our models and our peers, trying out new ideas or improvising on themes that have played since the beginnings of the medium. But sometimes, we actually get together and talk.
The photographers participating in The Unexplained Spaces Marked Off were all once photo students in the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. If we did not meet there, we met through friends, and we have all found—not just that we enjoy each other’s company—but that we share a common language and a similar passion. We have each learned, in our own way, that the camera is not just a tool, but also a guide. It is a way of asking questions, of calling out and getting a response.
In his landmark book The Unofficial Countryside, Richard Mabey initiated a new natural history drawn from observations of the interface between natural and urban environments. He describes the peculiar attraction of “a town map with the unexplained spaces marked off.” A similar map might be found in the camera bag of any of these photographers. But for us, the camera itself is our atlas, charting our passage from the known to the unknown, laying out the strange terrain along this intersection.
When we return from our exploration of the new world down the block, our discoveries burned on film or written to card, we are just beginning the conversation. Now to see how these new photographs fit, how they shape themselves in context. Should we meet and share our work, we often find how closely our independent investigations align. Our own compass draws us each to the complexity of the urban landscape: to the shifting boundaries between nature and culture; to the profound mysteries of the commonplace; to the way history lays its palimpsest over the land.
This exhibit is an instance of our ongoing conversation. It is a manifestation of where we are now in our thinking about the urban landscape, what it looks like and what it means. If a common thread were drawn through the work, it might look something like Robert Frost’s first line from The Gift Outright: “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” Each photograph in its own way describes our unresolved claims to the land, our imperfect stewardship, and our struggle to acknowledge its true quality and value.

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます ?>

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます
Six New York Photographers in Japan
Kirstie Carrizales, Melanie Chamberlain, Diana Iacono, Katie Mavrovitis, Teresa Salinas, and Rebecca Zoltowski; Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

六人のニューヨークの写真家が日本にいます (Six New York Photographers in Japan) is the final culmination of the course “Documentary Photography: Japan” offered by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock through the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts at Fordham University.

The book is 202 pages, 10×8 inches (25×20 cm), with four-color printing and can be ordered in softcover, or hardback in a range of paper grades. Preview the entire book here.

The course description is as follows:

This intensive class is designed as a platform for intermediate and advanced level students to further develop their photographic production with an emphasis on generating documentary projects focusing on the people, culture, and architecture of Japan.

The megacity of Tokyo will serve as the starting point for our investigations, with image making itineraries that will take us from the cosmopolitan ward of Shinjuku, to the center of youth culture in Shibuya; and from the cutting edge fashion districts of Harajuku, to the temples and shrines of Asakusa. Concurrent with our photographic explorations we will examine contemporary exhibitions in venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, as well as view the ancient collections housed in Japan’s oldest and largest museum, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno.

Traveling by Shinkansen bullet train at 300 km/h (186 mph), we will make our way south to Kyoto, the nexus of traditional Japanese culture and history with approximately two thousand temples, shrines, and gardens that we can utilize as both the catalyst and stage for our photography. The extraordinary wealth of visual stimuli we will experience in Japan over ten days will certainly inspire, as well as function as the backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that photographers employ in communicating their interests.

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers ?>

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

…something wonderful is going to happen…

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
11:30 am
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24G

Wim Wender’s 1989 film Notebook on Cities and Clothes! Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age. Including, amongst other things, a lovely meditation on the cut of Jean-Paul Sartre’s lapels and August Sander’s photographs.

 
You will remember it forever, which says a tremendous amount.

See you there!

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers ?>

Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers

…something wonderful is going to happen…

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
4:00pm until 7:00pm
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street, Visual Arts Wing, Room SL24H

It is a well-known fact that there is no better way to end your
semester (or year) than by watching all 201 minutes of Chantal
Ackerman’s phenomenal 1975 film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce,
1080 Bruxelles.”

For a first time ever I will encourage attendees not to do any
research before the screening, as it will ruin your 201 minutes of
domestic bliss. All welcome. Wear comfy clothes. Popcorn and espresso
will be provided on demand. Short bathroom breaks are permitted,
though discouraged. Nappers will be shamed.

You will remember it forever, which says a tremendous amount.

See you there!

Doug Dubois Photography Lecture ?>

Doug Dubois Photography Lecture

Doug DuBois
Book presentation and photography lecture
Thursday, October 13, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join photographer and educator Doug DuBois for a presentation and discussion of his most recent book Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights published by the Aperture Foundation.

Doug DuBois began photographing his family in 1984, prior to his father’s near-fatal fall from a commuter train and his mother’s subsequent breakdown and hospitalizations. While these events set a narrative backdrop to his work, the emotional freight is carried by the details as described by the artist: “the pallor of my mother’s skin, the glare of my father’s gaze and the tactile communion between my sister and nephew constitute a complex and resonant picture of family ties.”

More than twenty years later, DuBois’s project has developed in remarkable ways. Doug DuBois: All the Days and Nights resonates with emotional immediacy, offering a potent examination of family relations, and what it means to subject personal relationships to the unblinking eye of the camera. Each photograph is rich with color, nuanced gestures and glances enveloping the viewer in a multivalent, emotionally tense world.

Links:
http://www.dougdubois.com

Biography:
DOUG DUBOIS (born in Dearborn, Michigan 1960) received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Parco Gallery, Tokyo, among other venues, and can be found in the collections of major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2006, he received the John Gutman Photography Fellowship.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

Daniel Seiple Screening & Discussion ?>

Daniel Seiple Screening & Discussion

kidokoro2 07_seiple 06_seipleDaniel Seiple
Film screening and discussion: Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
6 PM
Fordham University Visual Arts Department
Lincoln Center Campus
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Room SL24H

Join artist and producer Daniel Seiple for a screening and discussion of his project Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011, 30 minutes plus extra footage.

Project synopsis:
On December 5th in the Tone River, just up from where it meets the Kinu River in Moriya, Japan, the president of the Joso Flying Club, Ono-san, ordered his technical specialist, Sugiyama-san, to crash his radio controlled airplane into my fishing boat, per my request. I had spent the previous month filming and becoming acquainted with two RC clubs who had airfields along the river. The hobby club, which flew scale models including WWII aircrafts such as the Japanese Zero and U.S. B29, talked openly about the Kamikaze. One mentioned its absence from school history books. Another gave an eyewitness account of a plane-to-plane Kamikaze attack. The other group, the Joso Flying Club, was semi-professional and showed more interest in making history, rather than discussing it. When asked if he was interested in real airplanes, one pilot responded, “For me, airplanes are a thing to look at rather than fly.” The hobby club declined to perform the crash for safety reasons, but more likely, because they were not capable. The Joso Club agreed and 8 Japanese RC operators witnessed the attack.

Links:
Travelhome.org
Arcus Residency Moriya, Japan

Biography:
Daniel Seiple was born in 1973. Daniel Seiple has been working on projects which reconsider various “borders” in contemporary society. Mimicking, crossing, shifting, destroying or redrawing boundaries…. They include physical / geographical markers as well as social and psychological territories. Each project is realized for a specific site and situation by employing various strategies and mediums.

Images:
One production still taken during the filming of Rajikon (Radio Control); three frames from Rajikon (Radio Control), 2009/2011.

For further information please contact:
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock apicellahit@fordham.edu