Greetings,
It's been more
than three months since my
last "full size"
eNewsletter. In some ways it
seems like three
years, but in other ways it seems like
just three
weeks. In a nutshell, 2013 has been an
extremely
busy year for Anne and me.
Next
week we head to the Eastern Sierra for
our annual
workshop in the Mono Basin with Charlie
Cramer.
We are looking forward to some quiet time
camping
and making photographs following the workshop.
Hopefully, being "off the grid" and
"disconnected" will rejuvenate our sprits and
our bodies. In addition, we both hope we will
make some
good photographs! Even if we don't
come back with some
"keepers" it will be fun
trying.
Once we return home we
will be back in
the thick of things. There are
more exhibitions, and
other projects ahead. We
will save that material for
the next eNewsletter.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy
the information
in this installment. Remember... you do
your best
WORK when you play
Have
fun,
John
2014-2015 JOHN SEXTON
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE
ANNOUNCED
I am
pleased to announce my new workshop
schedule for 2014 through early
2015. One of the most gratifying
aspects of my nearly forty years of teaching
workshops is the number of friends I have made
over the years. It pleases me to see
people who have been pursuing their passion for
photography for decades making great progress
along the way. Recently I received a note from
one such photographer. I was humbled and honored
that they felt I had contributed in some small
way to their success in photography.
We are happy to again offer four sessions of The Expressive Black and White Print workshop, which has been offered
with multiple sessions every year
for the past thirty-one years and still
has great interest!
You can
download a complete PDF of the new workshop
brochure here.
A number of you have been eagerly
waiting for the official
announcement of the Mono Lake and Eastern
Sierra: Exploring Autumn Light workshop for
2014. This very popular workshop will be held
October 12-17, 2014. We have a long waiting list
of people who were not able to get
into the 2013 session, so this
workshop will likely fill up very
quickly. If you are interested in attending,
please apply for the workshop as
soon as possible. Charlie and I personally review
each application to try and assemble a balanced
workshop group to help ensure the maximum benefit
for all workshop participants.
Charlie and I are also offering another
session of our popular The
Luminous Print: A Synthesis of
Traditional and Digital workshop, March
17-22, 2014.
We are in the
planning stages for twenty-eighth offering of the Fine Tuning the Expressive Print workshop. The Fine Tuning workshop is open only to those people who have
taken The Expressive Black and White
Print workshop, or a handful of other
printing workshops listed in the downloadable
workshop brochure.
Again,
to learn more about the workshops, or to apply,
please visit my web site www.johnsexton.com where you can download the complete workshop
brochure as well as the application
form.
JOHN'S
PHOTOGRAPH INCLUDED AS
WALLPAPER IMAGE IN APPLE'S
NEW iOS 7
I am thrilled to have my
image Tenaya
Lake, Clouds, Afternoon included
as one of
the wallpaper images in Apple's new iOS
7.
Imagine a "dinosaur" like me
having my image
included in a state of the art
mobile operating system.
Over 250 million iOS
devices upgraded to iOS 7 in the
first ten days
following its release.
As you might imagine I
am honored to have one of my images as a small
part of this completely redesigned operating
system. The image can be found in the
"Wallpaper" section of the "Settings" app
in iOS 7.
If you have an Apple
iOS device running iOS 7 you have a limited
edition image 1/250,000,000! I am glad I didn't
have to make that many prints in the
darkroom!!!
ANNE LARSEN + JOHN
SEXTON: LIGHT
AND FORM EXHIBIT CLOSES OCTOBER 12,
2013
OUR RECENT VISIT TO
DALLAS, TEXAS - IT WAS A GREAT
TRIP
Our
exhibition at Sun to Moon Gallery is entering its
final
week. If you are in the Dallas - Ft. Worth
area, and
would like to see our prints, please
stop by. The last
day of the show is Saturday,
October 12, 2013. You can
find all of the details
at the Sun to
Moon Gallery web
site.
We
had a grand time seeing old friends, and making
new
ones, during our visit to Dallas last month.The warm
Texas hospitality was greatly
appreciated, but the warm
temperatures (each day
was 100 degrees or more!) were
not as
appealing!
We
visited with the
photography students at Richland
College. We also had lunch with a group of
friends that meets every week to share their love
of
photography. Friday I presented (with Anne's
essential
help) a daylong seminar Exploring
the Expressive
Print. We had a great time
with the twenty
enthusiastic seminar
participants. The seminar filled
immediately
after it was announced, and some of them
travelled from great distances to attend. The day
flew
by for Anne and me.
Saturday started
off with a crowd of over 200
people for my lecture at
Richland College. It
was a very responsive group. I had
a lot of fun
sharing my photographs, along with some of
Ansel's images. There was a reception and
poster
signing that followed the lecture. We had
just enough
time to drive back to Sun to Moon
Gallery to meet the
large crowd that showed up
for our opening reception. As
I mentioned earlier
I saw a number of photographic
friends that I
hadn't seen since my last exhibit in
Dallas
twenty-three years ago! We also made lots of new
friends - including a father and son that drove
from Louisiana!
It was a great
trip, and we had a fine time. We look forward to
our
next visit to the Lone Star state.
JOHN'S IMAGE FOAM ON WATER
INCLUDED IN UPCOMING EXHIBITION AND BOOK
SEE THE LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY, PERCEPTION,
COGNITION
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
MUSEUM OF ART
OCTOBER 27 2013
THROUGH MARCH 23, 2014
I am
honored to have my image Foam on Water,
Yosemite National Park, California included
in the upcoming exhibition and accompanying book, See the Light: Photography, Perception,
Cognition at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The
exhibition, which includes 220 photographs from
LACMA's Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection,
takes a historical perspective, identifying
parallels between photography and visual
experience over time. When I received the news
that my print would be included in the exhibition
and book it made my day! I have a hard time
believing that my work will be included along
with so many of my photographic heroes including:
Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Wynn Bullock,
Julia Margaret Cameron, Paul Caponigro, Imogen
Cunningham, Frederick H. Evans, William Henry Fox
Talbot, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Edward Steichen,
Alfred Stieglitz, Carleton Watkins, Edward
Weston, Minor White and many other legendary
photographers.
Foam on Water, Yosemite
National Park, California
©1974
John Sexton. All rights
reserved.
The exhibition opens to the public on October
27, 2013 and runs through March 23, 2014. You can
learn more about the exhibition, and the book, at
the LACMA
web site.
My longtime
friends Marjorie and Leonard began to collect
photography in 1975, eventually building a
collection of more than 3,600 photographs, from
700 photographers, spanning the entire history of
the medium. In 2008 LACMA acquired the complete
collection. LACMA curator Britt Salvesen has
authored a new book of the same title that
includes 100 images from the exhibition. The book
is scheduled to be released in November 2013, but
can be pre-ordered through Amazon.com.
NEW COMPANY - KODAK
ALARIS - CONTINUES TO MANUFACTURE AND SELL KODAK
FILM
As some readers may
recall I mentioned that Kodak was selling its
film manufacturing business to the U.K. Kodak
Pension in the June
2013 eNewsletter. In early September Kodak
Alaris was born as Eastman Kodak exited its
Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Unlike a start-up
launching from someone's basement office or an
incubator, Kodak Alaris came into the world with
considerable assets – annual revenues of
roughly $1.3 billion, a global workforce of about
4,700 employees.
Among its
product lines Kodak Alaris is continuing to
produce Kodak Professional film in the same
"Building 38" state of the art emulsion
coating facility in Rochester, New York with the
same seasoned professional employees. As a user
of Kodak Professional film for my entire 40-year
photographic career, I think this is GREAT news.
I am confident that there will be no change in
the quality, or availability, of Kodak film in
the foreseeable future. In my humble opinion...
this is good news for photographers around the
world.
In the spirit of "full
disclosure" I have had a close involvement with
Kodak photographic products over the years. I am
proud to say that I served as a consultant on
many Kodak photographic projects including Kodak
Elite paper, Kodak Polymax paper, Kodak T-Max
films, numerous Kodak film developers, Kodak
Readyload system, and many other Kodak products.
I am proud to have Kodak Alaris as a workshop
sponsor, and humbled by the fact that Kodak has
been a sponsor of my workshops for twenty-six
years.
To learn more about the
"new" Kodak Alaris check out this article by
the British
Journal of Photography.
As
Lars Fiedler, Marketing Manager at Kodak Alaris'
Personalized Imaging Division says in the
article, "There are no plans at all to cut
down. We enjoy a good demand, but of course we
will continue to monitor the market and if for whatever
reason – which I wouldn't expect, to be honest
– the demand would dry up, we would need to
react and look at our portfolio."
So if you LOVE the MAGIC of the traditional
silver halide process, continue to use silver
halide materials. If you don't use it, you are
sure to lose it!
FANTASTIC AERIAL VIDEOS
OF BODIE AND UTAH
I
recently had a chance to see a fantastic aerial
video of the ghost town of Bodie made by my
longtime friend Russell Brown and Aaron Grimes.
I am sure that readers will enjoy this amazing
video. Russell pointed me in the direction of
another of Aaron's "tour de force" aerial
videos of another one of my favorite photographic
haunts... Utah! This is truly uplifting (pun
intended!) imagery. Enjoy.
BODIE - FROM
THE SKY
UTAH - FROM THE
AIR
