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Museum Exhibit – BEATITUDE: The Beat Attitude Photographs by Joey Tranchina
Exhibit: October 20 Through January 6 Exhibition of Never-Before-Seen Portraits of Beat Generation Icons Kicks Off Photo Centre’s 35th Anniversary. This stunning exhibition of over 70 images and commanding enlargements includes iconic, culture-bending poets, activists, and artists of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Lenore Kandel, Kenneth Rexroth, and more. Lenore Kandel at the San Francisco State Poetry Center, 1976. ©Joey Tranchina This collection of images taken in the 1960s and ’70s by little-known poet/ photographer/activist Joey Tranchina were stored away for nearly 50 years before being discovered by his son in 2018 and later shared with critic and art historian Dr. Anthony Bannon and art consultant and producer Dolores Lusitana. Kenneth Rexroth at the Santa Fe Poetry Festival, 1975. ©Joey Tranchina BEATITUDE captures a cross-generational array of multi-cultural, race and gender diverse artists linked by a “Beat” aesthetic who founded an early social movement that championed humanity over economy, ecology over industry, and equal rights for women and men regardless of race, social status, or sexual orientation. BEATITUDE: The Beat Attitude, a book of Joey Tranchina’s photographs, with an essay by Bannon and introduction by American Book Award winning poet Ed Sanders, is forthcoming internationally from Steidl Verlag. Backstage at the San Francisco Poetry Center, 1979. ©Joey Tranchina “Tranchina’s work must be the most extensive pictorial assembly of Beat
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The Art of Posing and Lighting
There is a particular niche to posing families and children and groups that not every photographer can handle under pressure with a time limit and an endless amount of people to photograph right in front of them waiting. The trick is to keep calm and start with the most simple of photographs, the portrait, and build from there. ©Scott Dere In my posing workshop, one will get a first hand look on how to deal with posing people with a finesse that shows in the final print. I will walk the group through the basic steps of lighting the portrait, and then show how to build on that portrait to create a dynamic group photograph with placement and composition as the primary key element. ©Scott Dere We will then loosen up the formal portrait to a more fun laid back photo session. It is here where I will show how to get your subjects to blend into their environment, and fashionize their look on camera with dynamic lighting and stylistic posing. By flattering our subjects with attention to detail and sweet talking them into a relaxed state of mind, we can create the best images of our subjects and give them a finished product that satisfies your creative energy and the expectations on the client’s final image. Being competent in
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