Lens is the photography blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web.
Show Reviews: Galleries and Museums
Here is a list of galleries and museums in the area that often feature photography. Visit these links to see what’s on display.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
Photographic Resource Center, Boston (PRC)
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester
These excellent museums sometimes also feature photography:
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA)
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
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NEO – The Photography Resource Center (PRC)
http://www.prcneo.org/index.php#undefined
This is a great little organization at Boston University. They have a gallery, a photo book library, and host guest speakers. Check out the NEO online gallery to browse creative work by local photographers.
Spring 2014 – Studio Lighting in Advanced Photography
Mapping Concord video
Senior Luke Cogliano produced a short documentary about the Concord Art Association’s “Mapping Concord” project, in which art students from several area schools (including CC) interpreted a particular location in Concord (a grid square on the map) artistically. Students used clay, paint, pencil, and mixed media. Luke took on this project to advance his moviemaking skills.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/95963030]
Here is information about the exhibit itself:
Spring 2014 – Video Production I students hard at work!
Student Videos Online!
CCTV (Concord Community Television) has posted three programs of student videos from the 2013-14 school year. Follow the link below, and type “Gooder” in the search window to find the videos.
Or go to each of the video programs individually:
Still Image Sequences Fall 2013
Still Image Sequences Spring 2014
Rules of Cinema assignment Fall 2013
Students produced some excellent work this year. These programs show two assignments: A narrative fiction short film made in crews of two to four students, demonstrating the “rules of cinema;” and a socially-conscious slideshow about a topic of the students choice, telling a specific story / point of view with images found online.
The Video Production I class visited CCTV several times each semester to learn how a television studio works. CCTV will continue to show our work online and as apart of their regular broadcast programming. Next year, in the Video Production II class, we plan to produce an entire show, with CCTV as our classroom. This final unit will be “co-taught” by CCTV’s knowledgable, energetic Education and Outreach Manager (and CCHS alumn!) Kestor Kruger.
MFA Field Trip – October 2013
The whole Art Department (2D, Ceramics and Photography) took a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to see a variety of work. The photography students focused on the exhibit “She Who Tells a Story,” about Middle Eastern female photographers, historic photographs from the Lane Private collection, and photographs from the museum’s permanent collection. The photographers’ unique point of view and creativity inspired us
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/she-who-tells-story
http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2013/08/wall-women-photographers-middle-east
Boston Photo Expedition – May 2, 2014
This year students in the Advanced classes took the train to Boston to take photos. We look at a lot of urban photography–candids, street portraits, architecture–but don’t get a chance to shoot it up in Concord and Carlisle. The objective of our day was simple: cover several miles from South Street Station / the waterfront, through Chinatown, and up to Boston Common. We explored the city, got a lot of great images, and even got to eat in Chinatown!
Collage Assignment (Advanced Photography, Spring 2012)
After viewing the representation of dreams in the photo collage work of Greta Stern from the 1940’s and 50’s, and the combination prints of Jerry Uelsmann, students collaborated to create fantastic or dreamlike collages of their own. Each collage is made up of many smaller prints, meticulously cut and glued together, and takes several weeks to complete.