FEBRUARY WET PLATE WORKSHOPS
dale bernstein photography |
wetplate collodion, silver based and digital |
The many possibilities of the photographic medium have long intrigued me. The virtually endless discoveries to be made. A photograph should leave the viewer with questions. There should be an element of mystery, of depth, of hidden layers. Still photography gives the viewer the time to explore. It plays to the voyeur in all of us.
During the mid 1980's photographer/artist Dale Bernstein had the privilege of working with some of the world's great photographers including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Horst P. Horst, Arnold Newman and Robert Mapplethorpe among others. For the last 20 years the New York born Bernstein has operated his own commercial studio in the midwest working for a large variety of corporate clients and advertising agencies. Over the past 15 years he has been practicing the wet plate collodion process. He has shown his work in several galleries including the George Eastman House in 2001. He also authored the article "The Wet Plate Collodion Process" in View Camera Magazine (July/August 1999) and "Searching for Watkins" in PHOTOVISION (November/December 2003). In September 2011 his work was featured in the British publication, FUZION MAGAZINE http://www.fuzionmagazine.co.uk/ . His book COLLODION TRAVELOGUE is available at: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/765627
ALL IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT ©2011 DALE BERNSTEIN
