Picturing the Hudson Valley
Andrew Moore
Friday, June 16 – Sunday, June 18, 2023
Friday, June 16: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 17: 2:00 – 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 18: 9:00 – 3:00 pm
This very special weekend workshop will provide photographers of all levels with skills in creating large-format landscape photography. Making pictures with a large-format camera in the field can be a challenge for even the most experienced photographers. In this workshop, noted photographer Andrew Moore will be on hand to work with you directly while you shoot on location. His goal is to help you refine your approach, both technically and aesthetically, in order to help you achieve the fluidity and discipline that large-format photography requires.
On the first day you will visit some of Moore’s favorite locations in the mid-Hudson Valley, a region that has for centuries provided fertile territory for landscape artists of all genres. The group will visit local sites, such as Platte Clove, Sojourner Truth State Park, Kingston Point Park, Hasbrouck Park, Thorne Preserve, or Brunel Sculpture Park. We will consider a range of equipment options and film and digital exposure tips, as well as compositional and color strategies and adjustments necessary for light and weather conditions. Participants may investigate advanced techniques about shooting for later compositing, and other topics that arise as we work together.
The second day will be a photo review in Moore’s studio. Students can bring portfolios of existing work to the studio or students shooting digitally can show pictures from the previous day. Moore will moderate a group review and discussion. Afterward, Moore will demonstrate some of his methods of large-format printing and share with you some special techniques for making your big prints look even better. We will end the day with an overview, discussing how to develop your individual images into a series and options for reaching a greater audience through publishing and exhibiting your photography.
What to bring: A portfolio of 15-20 prints or digital images, your large format camera if you have one, film and/or digital back, comfortable clothing for shooting outside during the day.
Andrew Moore is widely acclaimed for his photographic series, usually taken over many years, which record the effects of time on the natural and built landscape. His extensive series includes work made in Cuba, Russia, Bosnia, Times Square, Detroit, the High Plains, the American South, and, most recently, the Hudson Valley. Moore’s photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and many other institutions. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the J.M. Kaplan Fund. His publications include Blue Alabama (2019), Dirt Meridian (2015), Cuba (2012), Detroit Disassembled (2010), and Governors Island (2004). Mr. Moore was a lecturer on photography in the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University from 2001 to 2010. Presently he teaches a graduate seminar in the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media program at the School of Visual Arts. He is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City, where he will be showing his newest work from the Hudson Valley in the fall of 2023.
Public lecture: Thursday, June 8: “Meet the Artist,”
CPW, 474 Broadway, KingstonCPW, Kingston
Class limit: 10
Tuition: $850 / CPW Members $700
Scholarships are available for tuition assistance. Please email education@cpw.org for details.