Topic: Introductions

[snewbery]

As suggested by Leon...

Greetings all, have just found this forum and am glad to see there're other people devoted to film. I'm based in Berkeley, CA---I shoot  portraits, and other things too. I've always liked film---like it in sheets, in rolls,  even in packs of instant gratification. Berkeley is sort of a film haven, it seems---there are quite a few of us serious film folks. We have our great local store, Looking Glass, and we still have a couple of independent labs. And there are a number of public photography programs that continue to teach introductory darkroom courses. So, as those funny guys in the UK would say, ''We're not dead yet!"

[vicky slater]

I picture Berkley full of evening sun, wide pavements covered in autumn leaves , beautiful buildings and college students...have i been watching too much telly?
:)

you have some beautiful portraits, welcome to filmwasters, snewberry.
(and i do feel half dead this morning, film or not :)

[snewbery]

>I picture Berkley full of evening sun, wide pavements covered in autumn leaves , beautiful buildings and >college students...have i been watching too much telly?

Yes, the university shimmers on one side of the bay, San Quentin on the other.... And the fog glides in between. A very nice place to live in many ways (though CA is flat broke).  ---Sheila

[LT]

... as those funny guys in the UK would say, ''We're not dead yet!"

I have to say, I'm not funny at all.  In fact, I'm downright, po-faced miserable most of the time - ask my wife.     

great to have you here - thanks for posting the intro thread.  You are lucky to have such good film-headz around your locality.  And darkroom-courses - a luxury

[edthened]

Och a wontae moov tae Berkley       

[Ed Wenn]

Och a wontae moov tae Berkley       

...not with an accent like that you don't, Ed!!

 


Oh, and welcome to Filmwasters, Sheila (from another one of those funny Brits).

[hookstrapped]

I learned photography at Berkeley, in the ASUC darkrooms and Berkeley streets.

cool...

[Francois]

Welcome!
(not much to say this morning... sorry)

[snewbery]

Thanks, all, for the kind hellos.

>I learned photography at Berkeley, in the ASUC darkrooms and Berkeley streets.

This is actually where I got *restarted* in photography. When did you study there? I've been working on a history of the place---it's been around for over 40 years, and in 1968, students at the ASUC were invited to show down in Carmel at the Friends of Photography gallery by Ansel Adams. For a time, it was also well connected to the burgeoning photography gallery scene in SF, and curators  like Thomas Garver and Theresa Heyman included the studio in their rounds when they were making plans for shows.

I won't bore everyone with  interminable details, but it was a *remarkable* place, especially given that it was a non-degree-granting program, yet it turned out an impressive roster of photographic talent---Richard Misrach being perhaps the best known. His book Telegraph, 3 AM was printed at the Studio (the photos, I mean), as were earlier works by Roger Minick (Delta West) and Dave Bohn (Glacier Bay) (who taught with Ansel up at the summer Yosemite Workshops throughout the mid to late 70s).

[edthened]

...not with an accent like that you don't, Ed!!

   

Och Ed, a can ollwaes go tae  Americanisation classes   

P.S.   Och  snewbery , it's awfie nice tae see yoo heer 

[hookstrapped]

Thanks, all, for the kind hellos.

>I learned photography at Berkeley, in the ASUC darkrooms and Berkeley streets.

This is actually where I got *restarted* in photography. When did you study there? I've been working on a history of the place---it's been around for over 40 years, and in 1968, students at the ASUC were invited to show down in Carmel at the Friends of Photography gallery by Ansel Adams. For a time, it was also well connected to the burgeoning photography gallery scene in SF, and curators  like Thomas Garver and Theresa Heyman included the studio in their rounds when they were making plans for shows.

I won't bore everyone with  interminable details, but it was a *remarkable* place, especially given that it was a non-degree-granting program, yet it turned out an impressive roster of photographic talent---Richard Misrach being perhaps the best known. His book Telegraph, 3 AM was printed at the Studio (the photos, I mean), as were earlier works by Roger Minick (Delta West) and Dave Bohn (Glacier Bay) (who taught with Ansel up at the summer Yosemite Workshops throughout the mid to late 70s).

I took classes at ASUC around 1981-82.  Here's one from the BofA on Telegraph between Durant and Bancroft from '83

[snewbery]

Nice shot---perhaps you knew Paul Herzoff...? Or Tom Oden? Or Jeff Margolin? I think Steve Fitch had left by the time you got there. Perhaps Jackie Leventhal had also left (both were on staff in the early 70s and were NEA grant winners, when there was an NEA). Anyway, nice to run across another ASUC-er.  ---Sheila