PHOTO-52
PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THEIR IMAGES
(THE LECTURE SERIES)
Spring 2009
One unit, CRN 31765 - Sec. 591
(ENROLLMENT REQUIRED)
Rosenberg Library Auditorium, Rm. #305
6:30 - 9:30 P.M.
Lectures are on the following Mondays.

Feb. 2nd, First meeting
During this important orientation we will review requirements, attendance, format, credit, discuss the speakers and accept “adds” for this course.

Feb. 9th, Walter Swarthout
Having apprenticed with Irving Penn, Mr. Swarthout, San Francisco's most famous and busiest advertising illustrative photographer influenced the tone and set the style of almost all West Coast photographers between 1965 and 1991. More than the over 250 clients including Levi’s, Kodak, Clorox, Sears, Budweiser, Chevron, Fetzer Wines, Quaker Oats, are a testament to his skill as a commercial photographic illustrator and human being.

Feb. 23rd, Jim Sugar
Mr. Sugar is quick witted, full of heart-stopping information, and will "tell it like it is" to the photographic and visually oriented community.
AT&T, Du Pont, and Visa, are clients of this freelance and
National Geographic photographer. He speaks fluent French, holds a commercial pilots license (multi-engine), "and scuba dives when necessary".

March 9th, Charles Benton
Benton is chair of the Architecture Department at UC, Berkeley. He blends his own coffees and is an avid kite flyer. For the last 10 years, his cameras attached to kites, have witnessed the Bay Area and beyond from a height of up to 300 feet (just below local aircraft flight patterns). His imagery at that distance seems to take on an abstract quality, while at the same time the subject matter being very real, compells the viewer to scrutinize it..

March 23rd, Chris Mc Caw
Mc Caw's work is in the permanent collections of The
Metropolitan Museum of New York, Princeton University, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, George Eastman House, University of Texas, Museum of Fine Arts of San Diego, Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities and many private collections. ..Need we say more ???

April 20th, Elisabeth Sunday
Last December her one woman show ended at the Louis Stern Fine Arts Gallery in L.A. Her amazing transfiguring work fuses a kind of current philosophy with the shared belief among indigenous tribal cultures that the camera's "penetrating gaze" sees beyond the external world and into the essence of one's soul. Sunday uses her camera to reveal deeper truths beyond the immediate perceptions of reality.