Slide Talk & Workshop
With Photographer Thomas J. Finke
Slide Talk - October 18, 7:30 pm
'How-To' Workshop - October 19, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
The ClayPeople and College of DuPage present a slide talk and workshop with
Photographer Thomas J. Finke. The Slide Talk is free and open to the
public. It will take place Friday, October 18, 2002 at 7:30 pm, College of
DuPage SRC room 2800. (Finding
The College of DuPage) The 'How-To' workshop will cover the basics of taking
slides of 3-D works. Learn how to create quality images for documentation,
applying to schools/shows or for publication. Learn the basics of how to
match film to lights, use a gray card, proper lighting of your work, and what
makes a successful background. Each participant will receive four slides
of their work. Registration is limited and costs $20.00 for members,
$25.00 for non-members. (Registration Form.)
About the Artist
Thomas J. Finke received his MFA in Photography and Ceramics from the
University of Cincinnati in 1983. He has been actively photographing since 1970.
His work is represented in numerous museums and private collections in the
United States and Japan and the Udinotti Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona
currently represents his work.
Tom Finke is an artist and educator, active in both photography and
ceramics, who lives and works in Colorado. He has traveled extensively
throughout the United States and Asia, photographing the events that we
celebrate in our everyday lives. His current photographic works deal with the
series titled: "Celebrations and Competitions."
I photograph because it makes me feel that I am alive. The
"Competitions and Celebrations" deals with the gestures and body
language that we present as part of our everyday life. Like expressions of the
face, attitudes of the body are full of meaning. Some of our gestures and poses
are contrived for an audience; some are unconscious and involuntary; or nearly
so. All of them send messages about who we think we are, or how we feel, or what
we mean messages we might prefer to disguise, as well as, those we intend to
project. This sample readily suggests the unsurprising conclusion that, we have
become less inhibited about expressing ourselves.
