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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Kamoinge 50 year anniversary panel discussion at The Schomburg
At The Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture hosted an event honoring Kamoinge Inc. The collective of black
photographers has been making pictures of the African diaspora for over 50
years. A screening and panel discussion was in the Langston Hughes auditorium
at Monday Jan 13. "Visually Speaking: Kamoinge at 50" was
curated by Terrence Jennings.
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| From the left: C. Dan Dawson, Mark Lee Blackshear, John Pinderhughes, Collette Fournier, Calvin Mercer, Shawn Walker, June Delairre Truesdale, Russell K. Frederick, Ming Smith Murray and Ronald Herard |
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| From the left: Moderator Grace Aneiza Ali, Russell K. Frederick, June Delairre Trusdale and Shawn Walker |
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Jazz. Covers. Politics
Join us for a conversation
with the writer/co-curator of the exhibition,
Robert O'Meally, and musician Randy Weston
Robert O'Meally, and musician Randy Weston
Thursday June 6, 6:00-8:00 pm
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
475 Tenth Avenue, 14th floor
(between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York, NY 10018
Free and Open to the public
Please RSVP by June 3
Robert O'Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and founder and former director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. Along with Diedra Harris-Kelley and C. Daniel Dawson, he has curated this exhibition and a series of shows for Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC). He has written extensively on jazz, Ralph Ellison, Billie Holiday and Romare Bearden. O'Meally will lead the program with an overview of the exhibition and conversation with Randy Weston.
Pianist/composer Randy Weston has had a long engagement with the music and musicians of Africa. Though Weston cites Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, and of course, Duke Ellington as his other piano heroes, it was Monk who had the greatest impact. "He was the most original I ever heard," Weston remembers. "He played like they must have played in Egypt 5000 years ago." Several of Weston's album covers are featured in the exhibition's "Black to Africa" section. He remains always on the case with
titles such as Afrika Uhuru, Khepera, Ancient Future.
titles such as Afrika Uhuru, Khepera, Ancient Future.
Jazz.Covers.Politics
Album Art in An Age of Activism
On view April 11 -August 23, 2013
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
475 Tenth Avenue, 14th floor
New York, NY 10018
New York, NY 10018
Curated by C. Daniel Dawson, Diedra Harris-Kelley and Robert G. O'Meally
organized by the Romare Bearden Foundation
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Secial to the Black Photographers Information Forum (BPIF)
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Collette V. Fournier Photo By Ronald Herard
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Transition from Analog to Digital Photography, The Digital Darkroom
© Collette V. Fournier Photography, MFA
In 1996, I was a little resistant to the change from analog/film cameras to the digital/media card /cameras when the change was on my doorstep. Freelance photojournalists for my local Gannett paper were told “no digital cameras, no work”. That woke us all up to the new reality. Freelancing for the Post, I sadly sold my darkroom and enthusiastically bought a digital camera. Digital photography is here to stay. We’d better move with the new technology or go by the way of the dinosaur. Space, scientific and media industries are always in the lead. By the time the consumer sees it, most of the kinks are worked out. As I studied the new media closely I realized digital photography is a digitized science reinvented from analog photography. The IT photo scientists had to have a starting point of departure. They are working with bits, zeros and ones, the first thing I ever learned about computer science. We are now in a pixilated environment and 24 bit color translates to 8 bits of RGB (red, blue and green). There was still a D Log E chart measuring density and exposure and a characteristic curve that measured shadows, midtones, and highlights. That is now called a histogram. The ISO (ASA) could still be manipulated changing the sensitivity of film cards. Like film cameras, digital cameras are incorporating manual, aperture/shutter priority modes, and they are becoming smaller or larger, with a budget small or large for any amateur, semi-pro or professional photographer. The cameras are producing less noise and the software incorporating filters to add the noise back in. The beauty of digital photography is the monitor on the back of the camera that instantaneously gives us an image, thus letting us view our images and correct our mistakes if necessary. For us television addicts, the tv is now incorporated into our cameras. We are in an instant society. Isn’t it a perfect world?
Photoshop and like software produce a toolbox that we use to digitally manipulate our images. There are a host of selection tools, drawing tools, masking tools, burn and dodge tools. Sound familiar? Need to cut and paste? You can do so in the edit mode. Sometimes I have to add open eyes where someone had the nerve to blink. I always laugh at the sight of floating eyes, then on deadline use the move tool to place the open eyes over those closed eyes. There’s even a redeye tool, color selection picker and a magic wand tool which are my favorites. Everything we manipulated in the darkroom is now done electronically with the click of the mouse. We are still working with RGB for the computer, camera, scanners and their complements, CMYK for printers and inks. With layers, I can finally composite that image I visualized as a junior in my high school darkroom. Go James Vanderzee and Jerry Uelsmann. So, steady your hand or use a tripod or monopod and join the wonderful world of digital photography!
Collette Fournier is the staff photographer at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY where she also adjuncts teaching Analog Black and White and Digital Composition. Ms. Fournier studied photography and visual arts at RIT and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is writing a personal narrative, actively travels and exhibits her photography. Ms. Fournier is a member of Kamoinge, Inc. a photographer’s collective based in NYC, UPAA, (University Photographer's Assoc. of America) and has curated photography exhibitions.
10/09/12
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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