From today's AV Press - Lancaster Museum / Art Gallery to have an open forum for the discussion of photography's many forms at 1pm, Saturday July 18. FREE
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LANCASTER — The Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery will provide an open forum for the discussion of photography's many forms at 1 p.m. Saturday.
A panel of artists and professionals working in the field of photography will present their craft and discuss the concerns that are shared among fine art, documentary and commercial photographers, as well as the distinctions that set them apart from each other. This event is free and open to the public.
The panel discussion will include Charles Hood, Antelope Valley College professor; Damian Hopper, commercial and fine art photographer; and Douglas Mc-Culloh, fine art and documentary photographer. It will be facilitated by Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery Curator Nicholas West.
The specific viewpoints of the presenters will provide a foundation to begin a dialogue between the audience and the panelists that investigates the uses and types of photography, as well as the various ways photography can be utilized for expression, documentation and artistic pursuit.
The event is presented in conjunction with Lee Bergthold's solo exhibition, "An Unforgiving Land: The Trek Photography of Lee Bergthold," running through July 26 at the gallery. The exhibition chronicles Bergthold's 32-day trek to trace the Hastings Cutoff, the infamous "shortcut" that put the Donner Party behind schedule and caused them to attempt their fateful crossing of the Sierra Nevada too late in the season.
Hood has photographed the landscape, nature and ecology of all seven continents. He has been an artist in residence with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. At present he is preparing to work in Antarctica, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. He has published seven books and teaches at Antelope Valley College.
Hopper was born in Van Nuys in 1980 and was raised in Palmdale and Lancaster from the age of 6. He is a graduate of Paraclete High School and Antelope Valley College, and has a bachelor of arts degree in professional photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara.
He has worked as a photographer's assistant and retoucher for a variety of architectural, corporate, editorial and portrait photographers in Boston, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Damian directs his attention as a photographer toward personal projects. He is exploring the use of motion blur and digital sharpening techniques on flowers, as well as the use of traditional black-and-white film for the study of the human hand.
McCulloh is an honors graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and has a Master of Fine Arts in photography and digital media from Claremont Graduate University. He exhibits widely in the United States, Europe, China and Mexico, including at the California Museum of Photography; Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; La Triennale di Milano, Italy; Institute de Cultura de Barcelona, Spain; and Centra de la Imagen, Mexico City.
His fourth book, "Dream Street," was published in May by Heyday Books, Berkeley. McCulloh has curated a dozen exhibitions of photography, including three for the California Museum of Photography, and three of his photographic projects have received funding from the California Council for the Humanities.
McCulloh was one of six artists who in 2006 transformed an abandoned Southern California F-18 jet hangar into the world's largest camera to make the world's largest photograph.