BerlinSummerWorkshops
The Intimate Photograph
Doug DuBois (engl.)
The goal of this class is to articulate and explore what intimacy means in
visual terms. We will try and assemble a rhetorical rather than a purely
emotional guide to the photograph’s intimate claims. In the end, we may come to
the conclusion that intimacy cannot be photographed directly (as we experience
it) because, quite simply, the camera is always in the way. The trick, perhaps,
is to understand intimacy as an imaginary space -- an illusion that exploits our
very real longing for a profound and authentic encounter with another.
We will look at photographs and photographers who offer insight into the
challenges, tropes and problematics of making intimate photographs. Some
discussion topics will include: The Bad and the Beautiful (Hiromix, Corrine Day.
Lisa Safarti, Juergen Teller, etc); Dirty old Men (Larry Clark, Nobuyoshi Araki,
etc, etc); Family Business (Larry Sultan, Elinor Carucci, Leigh Ledare, etc );
Intimate Pairs (Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kelli Connell, Laura Letinsky, etc).
We will hold group and individual critiques of each other’s photographs and
on-going projects. I will also design a few assignments that will test our
theories, challenge our assumptions and if we are lucky, produce some images
that meet or exceed our expectations of what an intimate photograph can be.
Doug DuBois
Doug DuBois' photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in
NY, SFMOMA in San Francisco, J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of
Fine Art in Houston, the Library of Congress in Washington DC and the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London. He has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony,
Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Light Works and The
John Gutmann Foundation. Doug DuBois has exhibited at The J Paul Getty Museum in
Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art and Higher Pictures in New York; SITE,
Santa Fe; New Langton Arts in San Francisco; PARCO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan and at
Voies Off in Arles, France.
Doug DuBois' photographs have been published by the Museum of Modern Art, The J.
Paul Getty Museum, Double Take, The Picture Project, The Friends of Photography,
and in magazines including The New York Times, Details, Black Book, The
Telegraph (London) and Monopol (Berlin) and O’zine (Beijing).
A monograph of his photographs titled,
All the Days and Nights was
published by
Aperture in the spring of 2009.
Doug DuBois’ Homepage
Doug’s work at
Higher Pictures
Book review All the Days and Nights by Amy Stein at
Ahorn Magazine
Der Workshop findet in einer kleinen Gruppe von 5
bis 10 Teilnehmern statt.
Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt
285,- Euro (incl. 19% MwSt).
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sich bitte
bis 7. Mai 2010 per
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mit 5 bis 10 Beispielbildern und/oder Hinweis auf eine
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zu Vorkenntnissen und Motivation.