Architecture and the Urban Landscape
© Jim McHugh
This workshop is designed to allow photographers to see our urban environment and the architecture that surrounds us with fresh eyes. Saturday will include a presentation of images that examine various styles of architectural photography and how the urban landscape has been depicted since the beginnings of photography. Jim McHugh will show a selection of images from his 12 year photographic examination of the vanishing landscape of Los Angeles. We will explore contemporary photographic styles and techniques including alternative processes as well as the newest digital capturing systems. We will also study Renaissance painting and its use of one point perspective and how Photoshop and photo manipulation has offered photographers many other ways to picture the world around them.
Students will spend the remainder of Saturday afternoon photographing on location in Los Angeles. On Sunday, a selection of participants’ photographs will be critiqued in the studio. Open to photographers of all levels, the goal of this workshop is to learn how to create a sense of mood and discovery from our built environment.
Jim McHugh (www.jimmchugh.com) is a widely acclaimed portrait, lifestyle and fine
art photographer. He has published several books on contemporary art and artists including California Painters: New Work and The Art of Light and Space. His work is displayed in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis. One of the original contributing photographers to People Magazine, Jim has recently dedicated much of his time photographing the urban ‘built environment’ as a “vanishing landscape.” In 2004 Jim won the Graphis Photography Award for Architecture and received first prize from the International Photography Awards for his images of Los Angeles. Jim currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Johnna and daughter Chloe.
Dates / Times:
Two-day workshop
May 31 & June 1
Saturday — 2-7 pm
Sunday — 11 am-2pm
WORKSHOP FEE: $275
CLASS LOCATION: Venice Beach
ENROLLMENT LIMIT: 15 students
