Re: F295 symposium long synopsis
Bob,
Ahhh, I wish I knew wines--I just know what tastes good but not why. And I
really prefer the dry red. This one made my mouth pucker. Thanks for
giving me the correct name so I will check the local wine shop and see if it
is there! As well as that other name, below (which is probably out of my
price range...)
Oh, and let me tell you about the homemade cannoli (sp) and the stuffed
banana peppers and stuffed eggplant and pasta....YUM. We have adequate
Italian food here in BZ but not great. but our fresh bison steaks are
awfully tasty :)
Chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@caribsurf.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: F295 symposium long synopsis
DEAR CHRIS,
Thanks for the synopsis! Wish I could have been there!
The wine you had, if it is, indeed, from Montepulciano, may have
been a Vino Nobili (de Montepulciano). It is an extremely deep red/garnet
color and very full bodied. It is know as the poor cousin of Brunello di
Montalcino, considered by some the King of Italian wines. But I have
always
enjoyed Vino Nobili with spicier or richer Italian food when in
Tuscany...a
gutsy wine!
CHEERS!
BOB
-----Original Message-----
From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:42 PM
To: Alt List
Subject: F295 symposium long synopsis
Dear All,
Back from the F295 symposium in Pittsburgh
(http://www.f295.org/symposium2009/ and I have to say I was very
impressed.
First of all, I was unaware that F295 has about 2000 (!) members. That's
triple this list serve....Second, Tom Persinger runs a tight ship--aside
from a technical glitch or two (when does that not happen) the speakers
spoke on schedule and all were excellent lecturers--not always the case at
symposiums, conferences, seminars. Being an excellent artist does not
always correlate with being an excellent speaker....but these speakers
were.
There were 9 of them as you can see on the website.
Third, it is so energizing to be in a group of like-minded, somewhat
anachronistic people as we are. When you get right down to it, there
aren't
many of us and so many times it is a VERY small world, with so and so
knowing so and so invariably.
I mean, how many of us out there wax poetic about pinhole or alt process?
Not many. How many of us go out to dinner and set up a pinhole camera to
take pix of the meal out? Apparently Nancy Breslin is doing this every
restaurant meal she eats for a year. How many people think to plop a wet
plate collodion teeny plate in a Holga like Gayle Stevens does? They were
adorable. How many people think to take the Lumenprint/Jerry Burchfield
process/POP photograms and apply it to the salt print, exposing salt
prints
outside for hours upon hours to get gorgeous, velvety prints like James
Hajicek and his partner Carol Panero-Smith? They were really beautiful in
person--their work as well as themselves. And Joe Babcock with his pinhole
suitcase camera took the group portrait, very fitting.
We got to see Robb Kendricks' Cowboy project, and when I saw it in
National
Geographic I had no idea the extent of his project on the North American
Cowboy--and the fact that he has a full custom trailer that he tows behind
his vehicle that has a stainless steel darkroom in it. I think that is
what
I especially enjoyed is each speaker's (and most conference-goers')
intense
commitment to her/his process of choice.
Which reminds me that in the bestseller book on Outliers it says to become
an expert at something takes something like 10,000 hr---don't know the
particulars of how that figure was derived but I can believe it.....
We got to hear Dan Estabrook talk about his work--I've always loved it,
and
had just showed the video on him to my alt students, but his lecture was
way
better than his video (BTW a DVD I really like as well is What Remains
about
Sally Mann--doing her large wet plates. She went way up in my estimation
after seeing that DVD).
It was so neat to see people in person I only had read about/seen work in
books--Martha Casanave was in my gum class and I have always loved her
evocative pinholes. Finally got to meet Jill Enfield in person as well as
Jesseca Ferguson. Elizabeth Opalenik gave a really great lecture about
mordancage and her journey with the process all these years. Jerry
Spagnoli, Mark Osterman and France Scully-Osterman...Mark who had just had
the pleasure of meeting Judy Siegel at none other than the TruthBeauty
show...like I say it is a small world. Michelle Bates showed her great
body
of Holga work, and she has this little teeny weeny rolliflex digicam that
she hangs from her neck that must be about...1x1x2"??? Martha Madigan
shared
her work so extensively and from the heart, it is just so much better to
hear an artist talk about their work over the whole of it like she did and
Mark did because you get a much clearer picture of the whole person and
not
just an image or two. Oh, I could continue on and on but you get the
picture.
I loved the city of Pittsburgh--very photogenic. Wish I would have
scheduled a day for photographing :(
And the food is EXCELLENT there and quite reasonably priced! Zarra's
Italian restaurant was so good I had to drag a group back there the next
night. Driest red wine there I have ever had (Moltepiciano??? might be
the
name).
The Carnegie-Mellon University is also a great site for a conference, and
a
mile or so from the hotel so it forced us to exercise twice a day. Lots
of
great little places to eat surrounding the hotel so a car wasn't
necessary,
especially since the hotel shuttled us all over if we needed it.
Pittsburgh Filmmakers where we all did our workshops was glorious, even
with
a vegan chef in a little cafe in-house there who makes great hummus wraps
and couscous. It's always scary to enter a facility to teach gum because
you
just never know how the rooms are set up, especially when you need a
computer lab, classroom space AND darkroom/dimroom with running water,
but
this place had all and then even an assigned assistant each day!! I'm not
used to that kind of luxury.
Our world, and such as this list is, is such a fascinating slice of
culture/society...
Tom apparently is taking next year off but I think it is a must-do in
2011...it'd be like an APIS of the northeast if APIS is too far for some
to
travel.
If I had any criticism it would be that I forgot to take an umbrella and
had
to buy one for one of the days. And I should have brought better walking
shoes.
Chris
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