Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Sept. 26 – 28, 2008

Alternate Composition: Exercises from the Bauhaus and Time/Space Studies

Instructor: Paul Schranz

Straight photography is an analytical art. It is essential that creative photographers see beyond the “objects” in front of the camera to find physical relationships within the frame and realize personal values within those relationships. Formal composition is usually relegated to placing a subject in a space. However, this 2.5-day workshop will employ the concept of “equivalence studies” based on a philosophy developed at the Bauhaus over 75 years ago. Using physical analysis exercises, time-space continuum studies (long exposure, multiple exposure, image sequencing) and event seeing, workshop participants will to go beyond object seeing to more advanced visual relationships based on reasoning that affects compositional organization. The result is a more creative and personal vision evidenced in their photographs.

Workshop participants will:

• Create images with an emphasis on the physical characteristics of objects, rather than mere object information.
• Create photographs in which there is a strong element of time used to communicate an aesthetic and/or a narrative.
• Demonstrate the ability to use of these creative composition methods by incorporating them into their personal vision and photographic images.