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LOCATION:252 S Los Angeles Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90012\, United States
SUMMARY:Attention! (Photo-counterpoint) with Penelope Umbrico (In-Person Learning - Three Sessions)
DESCRIPTION:In-Person Learning\n"In 1982 I traveled to Europe for the first time. I spent 3 months in Italy. I was 24. There were no smart phones. Point and shoots weren’t ubiquitously available then\, and digital was a long way off. I had a simple 35 mm Nikon then (still do)\, but I decided to draw everything that I wanted to capture. What I remember: EVERYTHING I drew."\n—Penelope Umbrico\n\nThis workshop explores what happens when we slow down\, resist instant capture\, and commit to sustained observation. Through a series of guided exercises\, participants will spend extended periods of time with places\, objects\, artworks\, and everyday situations\, discovering how sustained observation transforms not only what we see\, but how we perceive and understand it.\n\nDrawing serves as a model for this process. Unlike photography's instantaneous shutter\, drawing unfolds over time\, requiring the eye to trace every contour and relationship. We will use drawing solely as a process to tune our sensory perception\, without concern for the end product. This sustained attention is a way to gain empathy and deep connection with what you are observing. It will reveal structures\, patterns\, and connections that often go unnoticed.\n\nOver three days\, we will engage in exercises that cultivate sustained attention. Readings and discussions will frame broader questions about attention\, care\, presence\, and the ways contemporary technologies shape our experience of time\, place\, and one another.\n\nThis workshop is an invitation to practice attention as a creative\, critical\, and deeply human act. No drawing experience is necessary.\n\nPenelop Umbrico's multimedia works utilize search engines and web platforms as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images and objects. Engaging consumer software applications and the physical apparatuses of technology\, her work considers our mediated experience of the world through the lens and the screen. Umbrico’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in museum collections around the world. She is the recipient of many awards\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship\, and a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Fellowship. Her monographs have been published by Aperture NYC and RVB Books Paris.\n\nView instructor profile here.
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Fine Art\, Creative Thinking\, and Writing
URL;VALUE=URI:https://lacphoto.org/events/attention-photo-counterpoint-penelope-umbrico/
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