A unique opportunity to spend three intensive days with renowned American conceptual photographer Lewis Baltz. Supported by international photographers Harvey Benge and Slavica Perkovic, this workshop will investigate contemporary photographic practice, (where the medium has come from and where it's going) and will provide the opportunity for participants to have constructive feedback on their own work.
Places in the Master Class are limited, if you wish to pre-register, please contact, Neil Cameron. neil.cameron@aut.ac.nz Course fee $550.00 payable by September 30.
Lewis Baltz was born in Newport Beach, California, Baltz was one of the first to use photography as a form of conceptual art. He came to prominence in the mid 1970's as one of a group of artist's included in the influential exhibition "The New Topographics". Since his initial individual exhibition with Castelli Gallery in New York in 1970 he has had over fifty solo exhibitions including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen; the Musee d'art Moderne Ville de Paris. His works are included in most major museum collections in Europe and the U.S.
Baltz has been the author of over twenty monographs since 1975. The most recent include Lewis Baltz: Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de nuit. By Cornelia Butler (Los Angeles, 1998); Lewis Baltz, by Jeff Rian,(Phaidon, London, 2001); The Deaths In Newport, (onestarpress, Paris, 2003) The Prototypes. The Tract Houses. The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California (Whitney Museum of American Art, RAM Publications, Los Angeles, and Stedil Verlag, Gottingen, 2005).
Since 1989 Baltz has resided in Europe. Presently he lives and works in Paris and in Venice, Italy, where he is Professor of Visual Arts at the Instituto Universatario Architectura di Venezia.
Harvey Benge was born in Auckland, and has been working full time as a camera artist since 1992. His photographs map the international urban social landscape and deal with the notion of parallel lives. With a particular interest in the book medium, the main thrust of his practice has been through published work. He has eleven books and editions published to date including: Aide-Memoire, (onestarpress, Paris, 2000); Lucky Box, A Guide to Modern Living, (Dewi Lewis UK, 2001); First Ever Pictures of God, (galerie Florence Loewy, Paris, 2003); Killing Time in Paradise, (Schaden.com Cologne. 2005); You Are Here, (Schaden.com Cologne, 2006. Benge exhibits regularly in Paris where he has had several solo shows and has shown in London, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Antwerp, Rome and New York.
He has taught work-shops at the Noorderlicht Festival in Holland. Most recently he curatedan exhibtion of New Zealand photography, Wonder-Land, for the Rome Festival and for the festival in Pingyao China. He lives and works from both Auckland and Paris.
Slavica Perkovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia and educated at the Ecole de Louvre, and the University of Paris VIII, where she studied experimental cinema. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Berlin, Brussels, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Perkovic's work has been included in numerous collective exhibitions, including Photography After Photography, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, circulating worldwide to six venues including the Institute of Contemporat Art, Philadelphia and the Adelaide Arts Festival, Australia. Her public works have been exhibited in Underexposed, Stockholm, and Public Domain, Graz, Austria.
Her works are included in the Fond national de l'art contemporaine, Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
There are currently three monographs of her work, Geschicten von Verlangen und Macht, (Stories of Desire and Power). Scalo Editions, Zurich and New York 1996; Betty, Kim, Irena, Slavika, Steidl Verlag, Gottingen, 2001 ;and Forever, onestarpress, Paris 2002. Forthcoming are Nika, onestarpress, Paris, scheduled autumn, 2006, and Swimming Pool, Steidl Verlag, Gottingen, scheduled 2007.
She has taught a Master Class in Reims, France, 1995-97, and several workshops, including at the School for Art and New Media, Kiel, Germany, Royal College of Art, London, and most recently at Photo Espana in 2006.