Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2000-2009 | Page 10

2d digital media and photography
July 21 - 25

ACTIVITIES: Most days will include shooting, image processing, and printing. The work of significant artists working in
related areas will be viewed and discussed, along with group
sessions devoted to introducing techniques, and viewing and
critiquing ongoing work.

Expressive Digital Black &
White Landscape 
Carlan Tapp   

PREREQUISITES: For intermediate to advanced students who
are expected to have some familiarity with Adobe Photoshop,
and—preferably—previous experience with medium-format
cameras. Small portfolio submission required.

Tuition: $1040  Studio Fee: $125
Code: P0817  Enrollment Limit 10

Carlan Tapp, Light - Mt. Fremont (detail)

CONCEPT:  Work in the tradition of the great masters using
today’s digital photographic technology. This workshop is for
the photographer who wants to learn about the aesthetic and
technical considerations in creating digital landscape images.
We’ll combine traditional Zone System methodology and
digital processes in Photoshop, with an investigation into the
expressive potential of black & white landscape.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Digital photography and computer processing. Digital darkroom techniques to include the grayscale
digital system, digital film scanning, contrast masking, sharpening, and digital “dodging and burning” techniques
ACTIVITIES:  Location photography every day. Duplication of
black & white darkroom techniques by means of advanced
digital processes in Photoshop. Discussion of archival print
papers, mounting, display, printers and software.

FACULTY:  Jim Stone is a photographer, teacher, and author. His
photographs have been exhibited and published internationally,
and collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Museum
of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. Five of his
books, A User’s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics,
A Short Course in Photography (6th ed., with Barbara London),
Photography (9th ed.) and Photography: The Essential Way (both
with Barbara London and John Upton), are in wide and continued
use for university-level courses, and there are three artist’s books
of his photographs, Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993), Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good
(Nazraeli Press, 2005). He is currently associate professor of photography at the University of New Mexico.

July 28 - August 1
Collage: physical to digital
Nancy Skolos & Thomas Wedell   
Tuition: $1040  Studio Fee: $150
Code: P0920  Enrollment Limit 10

PREREQUISITES: Students should be able to fluently use their
camera, and be able to confidently make selections, color
adjustments and edits to their photographs.
FACULTY: Carlan Tapp’s career as a photographer and educator
began when he received his first camera at the age of six. He
was an assistant to Ansel Adams at the Yosemite Workshops
and embraced the digital revolution in 1994. For over 30 years
he has created images for such corporations as the American
Egg Board, Apple Computer, Rollerblade, and Xerox. In 2005
he began the Naamehnay Project, a photographic document
focusing on environmental and health issues facing Native
American people.

July 21 - 25

Medium-Format Digital
Photography: untethered
Jim Stone   

Nancy Skolos & Thomas Wedell, 2005 Light of Hope for Indonesia Invitational Poster
design exhibition to promote hope for tsunami victims (detail)

CONCEPT: The creative act of collage can provide endless inspiration for artists in all media. The collage process spontaneously creates connections among seemingly unrelated subjects
resulting in complexities and embedded structures that go far
beyond conventional solutions. We will begin the workshop
with a