(c) Robert Maxwell 2012
4-DAY WORKSHOP (three full days plus morning session on fourth day)
ROBERT MAXWELL: The Contemporary Fine Art Nude
Robert Maxwell is one of today’s most renowned portrait photographers, working intensely in the editorial sphere for over 20 years. In addition to his many magazine assignments, Maxwell has a successful career in fine art photography. Nudes and portraits are his specialties. For the first time, he has agreed to conduct a workshop on the subject of the fine art nude. Not a classicist by any means, he has explored making nudes in his own, totally original and contemporary fashion. In this special workshop, Maxwell will work intensely with his students, revealing his motivations and techniques. It will feature active picture-making, supplemented by morning presentations / demonstrations by Robert, also allowing time for group and individual picture critiques. Robert Maxwell is a real-world working photographer – his approach is uniquely his own – he’ll give students a refreshing and original approach to consider.
An important aspect of the class will be a careful review and critique of work done by each photographer prior to the workshop as well as during the workshop process. Students can bring work in any form but prints are the easiest and most useful for review.
Day One:
Maxwell will present examples of his work, and review the works of his attendees. Time permitting, he will give a demonstration with one or more models in the afternoon session.
Day Two:
Photographing models at Korakia or at a location.
Day Three:
Morning session will be devoted to reviewing and critiquing attendee’s photography from day two. Photography will resume in the afternoon session.
Day Four:
Review and critique of the previous day’s afternoon session.
The workshop also focuses on interior and location lighting techniques. Robert will demonstrate his use of artificial and natural light to craft his impressions of the female form.
Models will be provided each shooting day, giving each participant ample time to make important photographs. The ratio of models to photographers is approximately 1:4.
Attendees of this workshop are invited to borrow cameras and lenses from Canon, Leica, Fuji and Mamiya at Korakia Pensione each morning before the workshop begins (8:00am – 9:00am). The Samy’s Camera Store suite is also open each morning for your convenience.
Photographers should bring their laptops and be conversant with their hardware and software in order to facilitate downloading and projecting their work for critiques in this workshop. Digital projectors with standard DVI cables will be provided. If you require DVI adapters, please bring one to class.
Monday, April 2nd – Wednesday April 4th, 9:00am – 4:00pm (plus Thursday, April 5th, 9:00am – 11:00am)
Price $1250 (Includes model fees and all transportation) *
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Robert Maxwell is interviewed in Treats! Magazine about his PSPF workshop!
BIOGRAPHY
One of the preeminent portrait photographers of our time, Robert Maxwell is a unique artist who successfully balances fashion and celebrity photography with a fine-art practice. Combining a rough-edged eroticism with an interest in form and beauty, Maxwell’s deeply expressive portraits, still-lifes, and nudes are at once contemporary and steeped in the history of photography. His use of nineteenth-century techniques including the glass, wet-plate process known as the ambrotype, and platinum and silver printing contributes to the rich, dark, and reflective surfaces of his photographs. Maxwell’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Camerawork in Berlin and Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. Arena Editions published his first monograph, Robert Maxwell: Photographs, in 2000.
Maxwell’s advertising clients include Nike, American Express, Bergdorf Goodman, and Bloomingdales. His editorial work has appeared in Outside, W, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, Newsweek, and Interview, among others. For T: The New York Times Style Magazine’s ambitious and ongoing Originalsproject, Maxwell has traveled the world to photograph more than 200 leading figures who share an original sense of style.
SEE ROBERT’S WORK ON THE WEB
Obsessionphoto.com
*A Note about Model Fees: Models will not be obliged to sign releases for workshop students. Photographers can discuss the subject directly with the models and make arrangements of mutual benefit to both, after the conclusion of the workshop program, but the model fee included in your registration fee does not include obtaining releases. There will be four models available for this workshop. Model fees can run between $350 and $2,000 per model in private sessions for nude photography.
