Life In The Arts
Creativity and Design in Photography with Roger Fremier
Wednesday, January 17, 2001 - 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Roger Fremier and Life in the Arts host Maia Carroll
THIS PROGRAM IS BEING PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE CULTURAL COUNCIL FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ARTISTIC HANGUPS and CARMEL PLAZA
BACKGROUND
Photography is an art form like painting, architecture, music and the like that can express and communicate human concepts and emotions. Just like writing it sues symbols, structure and artistic clarity. The photographer uses photographic, creative, design and thematic variables.
PROGRAM GUEST
Roger Fremier started his photographic career in 1968 freelancing for the print media as well as doing advertising, public relations and editorial work. He has published booklets and college workshops as well as producing commercial audio and visual tapes and cassettes. in addition to offering over 100 workshops, he founded a major photographic organization in Carmel. he now exhibits black-and-white fine art photographs. Roger currently heads the Department of photography at Monterey Peninsula College and teaches workshops through Photographs II. In 2001, he will be teaching a series in England, France, Spain and Japan called International Photography Retreats.
For more information: Photographs II
P.O. Box 4376
Carmel, CA 93921
PH# (831) 624-6870/Email: rfremier@redshift.com
http://www.starrsites.com/photos2/
Web Biography
SUGGESTED READING LIST
BOOKS:
Roger Fremier, Techniques for Black & White Photography: Creativity and Design (Amherst Media: Buffalo, NY) 2000. (ISBN 1-58428-033-6)
Contains basic material in this program. Locally available through Green's Camera, Myrick Photographic, and the Thunderbird Bookstore.
Freeman Patterson, Photographing the World Around You (Amherst Media: Buffalo, NY) 1994.
(ISBN 1-55013-590-2)
Contains information on photographic composition.
Freeman Patterson, Photography for the Joy of It (Amherst Media: Buffalo, NY) 1994.
(ISBN 1-55013-095-1)
Contains film, camera, and accessory information for both black-and-white and color photography.
CAREER CORNER
SCHOOL TO WORK TRANSITION
Retail & Industrial Sales
Areas of Museum & Gallery Management
Photojournalism
Portraiture and advertising
Photographic Teaching
Commercial Fine Artist
QUESTIONS FOR THE TELECONFERENCE GUESTS
What are some of the tenets of the creative decision-making process?
(Seek a large number of ideas and then evaluating them and practicing creativity.)
What are some of the basic themes artists use in expressing themselves?
(Achievement, beauty, emotions, human condition, humor narrative, newness for newness' sake, nostalgia, scenes, etc.)
What are some of the photography variables?
(Cameras films, filters, attachments, prints and presentations.)
What are some of the design variables?
(Line, value, color and some basic hints)
LINKS
http://www.411photography.com/LEARNING_PHOTOGRAPHY/
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/phres.asp
Student Project/ Lesson Plan
Students will use either a point-and-shoot or recyclable camera to make photographs of other historic California adobes in downtown Monterey, California
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