This workshop provides visitors with the opportunity to experience and participate in large format portraiture in a photographic studio setting. Participants may choose to be either the sitter or the photographer's assistant. Portraits will be shot on 4x5, black-and-white, Type 55 Polaroid film, allowing visitors to leave with a small print or negative which may then be taken to the computer technology lab for scanning and digital correcting or manipulation.Professor Bastien Desfriches Doria is a native of Paris, France, where he used to live and work before moving to America in 1999 to study Photography. His artistic and academic interests are broad and go well beyond the usual Visual Arts spectrum. In France, Bastien earned both a degree in Philosophy and in Information & Communication Sciences. Existentialism, structuralism, post-structuralism, semiotics and phenomenology (among other areas) constitute the core of his theoretical approach and understanding of photographic arts. Mainly focusing on conceptual portraiture, his work evokes philosophical wonder and reflects on mundane absurdity, while challenging the aesthetics and representation of the individual as a human figure. Most of his recent work is available to see on his website at www.bastienddoria.com.
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