Workshops
All classes will be held at Chicago State University. All dates and times are tentative. Admission is free for all C.A.A.A.P. members (dues must be paid and at least one meeting attended BEFORE attennding class).
Our CAAAP member Tracy Lynn Deis coordinates our CAAAP workshops. Please contact her if you are interested in conducting a workshop at one of our monthly meetings.
Videos of the Month
| During the glory days of the 1920s, hundreds of Harlem's finest made the trip to James Van Der Zee's studio for similar treatment. There, Van Der Zee took picture after picture, making sure that each one presented Harlem in the best light. In the process, he crafted a dazzling record of middle-class black life, a side of America rarely seen at the time. | Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a two-hour film that will explore the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. |
7. Aperture from --jL on Vimeo. |
2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo. |
Canon 5D Mark II vs Canon 7D Field Test Hands-on Review |
Optimum Camera Settings for CANON |
A documentary about photographer David Johnson, now 84 years old, who is the first African American student of famed photographer Ansel Adams. But unlike Ansel Adams, David Johnson found his landscape on the street where he lived. Images of people living with respect and dignity in a world of civil rights struggles and neighborhoods changed beyond recognition.He produced an invaluable collection of black and white images from 1946 to 1966 showing the social, political and private lives of Blacks living in San Francisco's Fillmore District. His work has been featured in galleries, books, and PBS documentaries. Several of his prints are included in the Library of Congress and his name is etched in concrete at the Fillmore Plaza in San Francisco.
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Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story. Innovative Retrospective of Noted Photographic Artist and Photojournalist Presents a Comprehensive View of Mid-20th-Century African American Life. The groundbreaking exhibition celebrates the work of the African American artist/photographer, a native of Pittsburgh. A serious photographer from the age of 18, he started his professional career in 1937 when he opened a studio in his hometown and began to take on freelance assignments. In 1941, Charles "Teenie" Harris was appointed staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, the nation's preeminent black newsweekly. The exhibit will be in Pittsburgh until April 7, 2012, and then travel to Chicago (Harold Washington Library), Atlanta and Birmingham. |
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Photographer, author, and Lecturer, DEBORAH WILLIS, PH.D. (Professor of Photography and Imaging in New York University, and at the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography and Imaging) named among the 100 Most Important People in Photography by American Photography Magazine, Dr. Deborah Willis is Chair and Professor of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she also has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. A 2005 Guggenheim and Fletcher Fellow, a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, 1996 Recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award, and now an artist, she is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Check out this fabulous trailblazer. |
How well do you know the basic terms and elements of photography?
Take the Basic Photography Quiz. And then check your answers Basic Photography Quiz Answers
Jules Lion...The first African American Photographer
William Henry Fox Talbot, British inventor and a pioneer of photography.
Victoria Kelly on running an efficient photo studio
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INTERPRETING RGB HISTOGRAMS
Learn how to interpret your digital camera's thumbnail image histogram to help determine proper in camera exposure and how to adjust tonal range in your scans or existing digital images using the levels-histogram tool
If you own a NIKON Camera you should live at THIS SITE. Jazz humor and absolutely everythng you ever wanted to know about Nikon cameras, flashes and lenses. Even if you aren't a proud owner of a Nikon it is a great site filled with tutorials on photography, humor, and great jazz. Visit Likiwiguy87.
Photographer's Rights in Public Spaces
A very helpful single sheet printout written by Bert P. Krages II, a lawyer who specializes in this type of law. Print this out and keep it in your camera bag if you photograph in public spaces. If someone gives you a hard time for photographing in a place you know you have a right to be, this may help you out (but these days it may not).
Photographer’s Rights Letter to NPPA
A more in-depth, and perhaps more official, document written by Kurt Wimmer and John Blevins of Covington & Burling to the National Press Photographers Association in August of 2005. The letter outlines very specifically the rights of journalists on public streets. A good document to have both a digital and a hard copy of somewhere handy.
You Should be Shooting Something Everyday
The Thing Itself: The fundamental principle of photography. An article written by Bill Jay who believes an earnest and honest appreciation of subject matter is the genesis of a clearer,
deeper vision. Photography is rooted in The Thing Itself.
This article has been reproduced more often than any other piece he has written. It was first
published in Newsletter, Daytona Beach Community College, in 1988 - but it is still being used by and
copied for college students.
The Value of Photography
by Debra Weiss
OK - so you probably don't want your kids to grow up to be cowboys but according to a New York Magazine article on salaries, you might want them to consider photography. "As soon as my kid is big enough, I'm putting a camera in her hands," a former photographer's agent says. "That's where the money is."
Cost of Doing Business Calculator
If you want to figure out what YOUR cost-of-doing-business is, try this easy-to-use calculator.