 | | Bob Harvesting Tomatoes, 2013 ©Craig Barber |
TinTypes with Craig Barber, Piezography tintype replication with Jon Cone: Sept 17 - 20
We've had a cancellation and this is an opportunity to get the last seat in a very unique workshop at Cone Editions Press in East Topsham, Vermont - being taught by Craig Barber and Jon Cone. This is a rare opportunity to learn how to make historical wet-plate tintypes - and then to digitize and manipulate them into large scale Piezography prints in very creative ways.
Craig Barber is a photographer who travels and works using antiquarian processes and focuses on the cultural landscape. During the past 15 years he has focused his camera on Viet Nam, Havana, and the Catskill region of New York State, documenting cultures in rapid transition and fading from memory. Barber's work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America and is represented in several prominent museum and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Brooklyn Art Museum; the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others. Craig has been photographing for over 35 years and teaching for 20 of those years.
 | | Bedell Barn, 2013 ©Jon Cone |
Jon Cone is a photographer, master printer, and the inventor of the Piezography process. During the past 35 years he has been collaborating with some of the world's most well known photographers including Richard Avedon, Zana Briski, Gregory Colbert, and Gordon Parks. In his own work, Cone has been adapting antiquarian lenses to digital cameras revitalizing the concepts of pictorialism in a contemporary age. Cone first began teaching digital printmaking in the early 1990s. His studio, Cone Editions Press, is the world's first digital printmaking workshop. He has been supporting the efforts of other printmakers and photographers with high standards inks and media since the late 1980s.
This workshop is for six attendees who will work and play at Cone Editions Press, at our studios, on our property, and at Vermont locations that are quite picturesque. You will learn hands-on the traditional tintype wet-plate process. Each attendee has 12 exposures they can attempt to make in two days of shooting. The next two days will be spent scanning a selection of these to play with using the Piezography process. Perhaps the best way is to think of it is as a unique manner in making a digital capture - using tintype as a method to making digital images for printmaking.
 | | Indian Joe's Oxbow at Bedell, ©2013 Jon Cone |
Craig Barber is bringing enough cameras for everyone, although you are welcome to have your own 4x5 converted - let us know early about that. Most of the cameras are large box types so you do not need to know how to operate a field camera. You will learn to make your own chemistry and coat your plates and make tintypes. Craig is a master at tintype and has been using this medium for his own work for a very long time.
 | | Alfard walking to Bedell Bridge, ©2013 Jon Cone |
The Piezography portion is about scanning these tintypes - enlarging them, enhancing them, replicating them, manipulating them... There are lots of possibilities once they are digitized and that is partly the objective of this workshop. All five of the Piezography ink sets will be available - and we will show you how we reproduced Craig Barber's tintype portfolio for the George Eastman House collection.
Craig's processing lab for the tintypes is mobile! We are planning a few locations to which we will be shooting with the tintype cameras.
Weather permitting - we plan to shoot at our favorite Bedell location - a short 35 minute drive.
However, Cone Editions is located on nearly 24 acres of what used to be a working New England farm. Across the street from the studio is a hidden waterfall. There are excellent photographic opportunities in our small village. Our own property has wonderful features and we have an indoor studio as well. If you did not realize, the metal plate, after coating with the collodion emulsion must be exposed and developed within 20 minutes. So location is everything.
 | | My paella pan - nearly 3 feet across. |
Then of course there is the art of Paella making which we will enjoy on Thursday evening. But, every meal is considered something of an art at the Cone Editions Workshops so bring an appetite and we do cater to every food allergy or restriction know. Just let us know ahead of time so your experience will be Yummo...
The workshop cost is $1,650. All materials are included including the large format Piezography printing. There is housing located nearby. The sign up is on this page here. Hurry! You will leave with the knowledge to continue both these processes in your own studio.
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