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New Mexico: Taos and Environs
A Photographic Adventure
August 15-23, 2015
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More information: www.harveysteinphoto.com
To register: registration.icp.edu
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New Mexico has been described as a place of inviolate, pristine beauty, engendering an almost spiritual feeling for the land and the overwhelming sense of peacefulness. Since the 1880’s, photographers and artists (Georgia O’Keefe, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter) have been irresistibly drawn to the incredible landscape, brilliant clear light, and rich Native American heritage.
Join us for a photographic adventure based at an historic hacienda in Taos, one of the first European settlements in the United States. Taos has many facets to its personality as a frontier outpost, Hispanic village, growing art center, and small Western town. Our private van will transport the group to the lofty peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the spectacular scenery of the Rio Grange Gorge, and to the wondrous hills of Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch area. We will also photograph Native American pueblos, adobe structures, historic churches, local festivals and spend a day exploring Santa Fe and Las Vegas, NM (like going back in time 40 years).
Frequent lectures combined with daily photographic activity offer a rich input of technical and esthetic concerns. Instruction will cover strategies of approaching strangers and the appropriate lens choices, as well as issues of landscape photography, portraiture, and photographing in all kinds of available light. The group will also explore the special light characteristic of New Mexico during early morning and evening excursions, and photographing with and without flash. Digital photography will provide the opportunity for quick feedback and critiques. Historical and contemporary images of New Mexico, and especially the Taos/Santa Fe area, will be shown for context and inspiration.
The workshop is open to all levels of photographers who have a good working knowledge of their cameras. Moderate hiking and walking will be required in this fast paced, information packed workshop.
Harvey Stein has taught at most of the major workshops in the United States and has led workshops in Europe, South America and Mexico since 1994. Besides currently teaching at the International Center of Photography in New York City, he has been on the faculty of the Rochester Institute of Technology, the New School University, Drew University and Bridgeport University.
He is the author of four photographic books, his newest, Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life, was published in December, 2006. He has had 70 one-person exhibits and has been in more than 135 group shows. His work is in over 45 public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Denver Museum of Art, the Portland (OR) Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
He has traveled extensively throughout the American Southwest in the past thirteen years. See some of Harvey’s photography at www.harveysteinphoto.com.