Glenville Exchange with Dawoud Bey

The Glenville Exchanges with Dawoud Bey
November 2, 2017 @ 6:00pm
FRONT Porch
1470 E. 105th St.
Cleveland, OH

Dawoud Bey (b. 1953, New York, NY) began his career as an artist in 1975 with a series of photographs, “Harlem, USA,” that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. Since that time exhibitions have included a mid-career survey of his work, “Dawoud Bey: Portraits 1975-1995,” and a survey exhibition in 2012 “Dawoud Bey: Picturing People.” Additionally, Bey’s critical writings include High Times Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967- 1975, The Van DerZee Studio, and David Hammons: Been There Done That. In 2018 a major forty-year retrospective monograph, Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply, will be published by the University of Texas Press.

Dawoud Bey photographs people and things that may otherwise be taken for granted. A 2017 MacArthur Fellow recipient, Bey features subjects who he says “are not always in the larger social conversation.” For the FRONT Triennial, Dawoud Bey’s exhibition will expand the notion of the documentary nature of photography and question the limits of historical reportage. More about Dawoud Bey.

At The Glenville Exchanges, Bey will have a dialog with youth photographers Jasmine, 17, Lai Lai, 17 and Yonnie, 19, who themselves are sometimes the subjects, to find voice through the lens of a camera. Often, these youth do not have the historical knowledge, coping skills, or benefits of having open, honest dialogue, and so have found expression in Shooting Without Bullets. The arts-based program, brain-child of artist-activist and youth advocate, Amanda King, assists black and brown teens to process complex social problems experienced by them and provides a radical platform to speak through artistic expression. More about this event.

Strobist Lighting 101

Welcome to Lighting 101. You may not realize it yet, but you have just stepped through a door that may change your photography forever.

Over the past few years, over four million people from nearly every country in the world have begun their lighting education right here. And if they can do it, you can do it.

Photography is literally writing with light. As you read through Lighting 101 you’ll learn how to control every aspect of your electronic flash. If you can imagine it, you’ll be able to create it.

You’ll learn how to take the removable flash that you probably already have on the top of your camera and use it off-camera to make beautiful, more three-dimensional photos. Once you learn the basics of controlling light, you’ll quickly see that most lighting is intuitive, easy and fun.
The Good News: The Gear Doesn’t Cost Much

Basic lighting gear is also refreshingly inexpensive. If you have a camera, lens and flash you have already done the spendy part. The gear needed to take your light off-camera is very inexpensive compared to your camera, your flash or even a single lens.

You can even make a lot of light modifiers yourself for next to nothing. Believe it or not, the photo above was done with a homemade light modifier. Sam Simon covered the opening of a shoe box with some paper and stuck his flash in a hole in the back. How cool is that.

For the most part, it’s the location of the light that is most important. By getting your flash off-camera, your images become more three-dimensional, more textural and more professional looking. All of the photos on this page were made by Strobist readers—who very recently may well have been exactly where you are right now—working with small flashes.

READ STROBIST’S LIGHTING 101

Setting up Nikon’s Wireless Flash

Learn more about firing your flash off-camera using your built-in flash:

https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-trigger-an-off-camera-flash-with-the-pop-up-flash/

Here’s a link to the old TTL Two Speedlight Studio we put together on a budget. We’ll be putting together an updated kit in an upcoming class soon:

https://csuphoto.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/affordable-speedlite-studio-options/

FREE CMA 1-year Membership for CSU Art and Design

 

Cleveland State University has entered into a partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a perk, current CSU Art and Design majors are eligible to free one-year memberships to CMA.

Benefits include:

• Free, unlimited admission to select CMA ticketed exhibitions
• 50% off admission to ticketed events for members’ guests
• Discounts to events and programs
• Priority registration and discounts for art classes
• 15% discount at the museum store
• 10% discount at the museum restaurant and cafe
• Flat rate parking ($6)
• Invitations to members-only special exhibition Preview Days
• Subscription to Cleveland Art members magazine
• Research library privileges

To claim your free membership, visit Cleveland Museum of Art Membership Registration page.