Home Photo Gallery Classroom Documents Noted Photographers to Teach in New Summer School Course
June 1939
A basic discussion of five wide divisions in photography is being offered students enrolling in the Summer session of the Photo League School. This is the Survey Course, for which five of the most important photographers In the country have volunteered their services. Each will teach the section in which he is best known, devoting two evenings to each subject. Robert Disraeli, with whom Photo League members are already well acquainted, will start the series with two lectures on The Miniature Camera--Its Function and Use. Not only has Mr. Disraeli a welth o information on technical practice in miniature photography, but he has given a great deal of thought to the particular functions for which the small camera is adapted. He will discourage its use for many purposes but suggest many fields appropriate to miniature photography as yet unexploited. Portraiture will be handled by Alfredo Valente, whose portraits of movie and stage stars are will known and widely used. Mr. Valente has tended more and more to simplify his method of working and has learned to obtain the utmost versatility with least combersome equipment and technique. He will teach through demonstration as well as lecture. Eliot Elisofon, who will take the section in Photo Journalism is a contributor to Life and Fortune and is one of our most prolific young exhibiters, having had numerous one-man shows in various galleries in the city. He has already given a full length course in this subject at the Photo League, and he is popular for his habit of cramming into his lectures the utmost in information and ideas relating directly to this vey specialized field. Photomontage, a comparatively new phase of photography, presents a world of possibilities as yet little explored. Barbara Morgan is well known for her writings on this subject, for her research into the various forms and techniques of photomontage, and for the actual work which she herself has produced. We expect the lectures and demonstration which she has consented to give in the course to be extremely stimulating. Henry M. Lester, co-author with Willard Morgan of the Leica Manual and Miniature Camera Work, will lecture on Color Photography for the series. Though familiar with and experienced in the use of every type of color process, Mr. Lester will limit his instruction to those aspects of color work and their possibilities which are available to the average photographer who is not equipped to handle the most difficult technical problems. His discussion of available materials, the problems of light, exposure, etc., will be supplemented by projected slides. This entire series is being offered for $5.00, and special arrangements have been made to allow persons who will be away the greater part of the summer to attend individual leccents. The sessions will be held on Thursday evenings at 8:00 P.M. at the A.C.A. Gallery, beginning July 6th and closing the evening of Sept. 7th. The lecturers will appear in the order given above. Hobby CourseThe summer session will also include a hobby course which will be given at the Photo League on Wednesday nights for a period of ten weeks, with M. H. Nichols as instructor. In addition to basic training in the fundamentals of photography, the student will obtain in this course special information and practice in the use of the camera for portraiture, landscapes, sports, action shots, candid photography, etc. This promises to be a very popular course and may be given in two sections in order to limit the size of the classes.
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