workshops/field trips
Ted Orland "My theory is that if you lead an interesting life, you'll make interesting art." Ted Orland In 1966 Ted Orland enrolled in Ansel Adams' Yosemite Photography Workshop. It was a life changing event. His encounter with Adams led to him working as Adams' assistant in the late 60's and 70's. In addition to teaching at the Yosemite Photography Workshop himself, he has also taught at Stanford University and the University of Oregon, as well a leading master classes in artistic development at workshops across the country, including Maine Photography Workshops and Penland School of Crafts. In 1985 he published Man and Yosemite, which traces the early history of Yosemite through photographs of the period, and later a selection of his own early photographs and writings in the monograph, Scenes of Wonder & Curiosity. With David Bayles, Orland is co-author of the classic artist's survival guide, Art and Fear, and sole author of a follow-up companion volume, View from the Studio Door. While once a large format photographer creating straight black & white landscapes, he came to believe "life was whooshing right past me while I was trying to set up my tripod" and so when the Holga plastic toy camera found him around 1990, he was ready to embrace the simple camera and create the often fuzzy, quirky imagery that he felt was more in tune with his views of the world. Today he carries the Holga with him almost everywhere. He also uses a digital camera, and utilizes the computer and printer to produce his pigment prints, which can be viewed at www.tedorland.com. Ted Orland will offer a lecture on Thursday, October 28 at 7 p.m. at the Center for Photography at Madison sudio, 303 S. Paterson St., Madison. He will facilitate a workshop October 29-30. His work may be seen at www.tedorland.com.
Ted Orland
"My theory is that if you lead an interesting life, you'll make
interesting art." Ted Orland
In 1966 Ted Orland enrolled in Ansel Adams' Yosemite Photography
Workshop. It was a life changing event. His encounter with Adams led to him
working as Adams' assistant in the late 60's and 70's. In addition to teaching at
the Yosemite Photography Workshop himself, he has also taught at Stanford
University and the University of Oregon, as well a leading master classes in
artistic development at workshops across the country, including Maine
Photography Workshops and Penland School of Crafts.
In 1985 he published Man and Yosemite, which traces the early history of
Yosemite through photographs of the period, and later a selection of his own
early photographs and writings in the monograph, Scenes of Wonder &
Curiosity. With David Bayles, Orland is co-author of the classic artist's survival
guide, Art and Fear, and sole author of a follow-up companion volume, View
from the Studio Door.
While once a large format photographer creating straight black & white
landscapes, he came to believe "life was whooshing right past me while I was
trying to set up my tripod" and so when the Holga plastic toy camera found him
around 1990, he was ready to embrace the simple camera and create the often
fuzzy, quirky imagery that he felt was more in tune with his views of the world.
Today he carries the Holga with him almost everywhere. He also uses a digital
camera, and utilizes the computer and printer to produce his pigment prints,
which can be viewed at www.tedorland.com.
Ted Orland will offer a lecture on Thursday, October 28 at 7 p.m. at the Center
for Photography at Madison sudio, 303 S. Paterson St., Madison. He will
facilitate a workshop October 29-30. His work may be seen at
www.tedorland.com.