Book Conception and Design with Linda Connor and Sangyon Joo
Cost:
Tuition: $375.00
Limited to 10 participants
Time:
February 10 and 11, 2024
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Location:
The Image Flow
328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960
This workshop is filled. To be placed on the waitlist, please email us
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This workshop is intended for photographers who have a fairly complete body of work they are seriously considering turning into some form of book, ranging from an artists’ book or on-demand publication to a mainstream trade book.
Presentations by Linda Connor and Sangyon Joo will share examples and practical approaches for how to translate a portfolio of work into book form. Then, in a supportive and positive environment, detailed discussion of each participant’s project by the group will include feedback about how to proceed on a book project that will best serve the specific creative content and intended message of the work.
Emphasis will be placed on the creative and design aspects of the process. However, Connor and Joo can also speak to practical, logistical and financial considerations of producing and distributing a book.
Sangyon Joo lives in Seoul, but is visiting the Bay Area to present Datz Press at Codex. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to spend a weekend with two visionaries sharing their deep experience in the art of the photo book.
WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS
This class is suitable for participants who have a complete or nearly complete project they are contemplating producing as a book. Each participant is asked to bring a representative selection of images from the project, preferably as small work prints (approx. 4x6 in).
If participants have a physical dummy of their book, they are encouraged to bring that as well!
INSTRUCTORS
SANGYON JOO
Sangyon Joo founded and runs Datz Press, a publishing company based in Seoul, South Korea. Joo is also the founder and director of the related Datz Museum and the magazine Gitz, focusing on fine art photography. Sangyon Joo received her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been involved in the cross-cultural art exchanges between Korea and the United States.
Datz Press is an artist book publisher and community space based in Seoul, South Korea. Focused on working with photographers, designers, and bookmakers, Datz Press creates, publishes, and exhibits works centered on photography, operating a bookmaking studio to support artists who want to self-publish their work. Joo’s comprehensive vision of artists’ photo books includes artists living and working across many countries and cultures while creating compelling work. Datz Press has published books for many artists, including PhotoAlliance lecturers.
LINDA CONNOR
Linda Connor has had a long and distinguished career in photography and has traveled extensively to produce her work to places such as India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, and Southeast Asia. Connor received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her Masters from the Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago. In 1969 she joined the photography faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute where she has taught for 53 years. A recipient of, among other awards, the National Endowment for the Arts grant (1994, 1988, 1976), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979) and the Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Arts (2001-02), Connor was recognized with the Society of Photographic Education’s Honored Educator Award in 2005. Connor is the founder of the nonprofit, PhotoAlliance. She is represented by the Haines Gallery, San Francisco and has published the monographs Odyssey, 2008, with Chronicle Books, San Francisco, and Constellations and Linda’s Ornaments, with Datz Press, Korea, 2021.
SPECIAL GUEST: Bob Aufuldish
Bob Aufuldish is a partner in the San Francisco area-based design firm Aufuldish & Warinner and a Professor at the California College of the Arts, where he has taught graphic design and typography since 1991. In recent years his professional practice has focused on work for cultural institutions.
He has designed books and catalogs for the Center for Creative Photography, Aperture Foundation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Denver Art Museum, SF Camerawork, and Pier 24 Photography, among others. He has designed monographs for a number of photographers including David Maisel, Todd Hido, Richard Misrach, Debra Bloomfield, Anthony Friedkin, Lindsay McCrum, Andy Freeberg, and John Priola.
His work has been selected for many competitions and publications, including AIGA’s 50 Books of the Year. His work is in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, LACMA, Posterhouse (NY), and the Letterform Archive (SF).
LOGISTICS
Location:
The Image Flow, 328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960
Parking:
The Image Flow building is in the old Tamalpais Theater building, and you will see the theater marquee as you approach The Flow on Sir Francis Drake.
There is a parking lot in the back of our building that participants are welcome to use. It can be accessed via Smith Lane.
Food:
An hour break will be given for lunch each day. There are numerous restaurants nearby or, pack a bag lunch to eat in the park across the street!
The Image Flow aims to celebrate photography in all its forms and to provide a platform for photographers of all levels to create work, exchange ideas, and to innovate the medium of photography. Our staff and instructors are deeply engaged with photographic practice in their daily lives and bring that same dedication to our space each day. We remain committed to making photography accessible to the community by providing public exhibitions, free lectures, workshops, rentals, and imaging services.
REFUNDS AND CANCELLATION FEES
A Cancellation 15 or more days notice prior to workshop start date will be subject to a $50 cancellation fee
A Cancellation 14 or less days notice prior to workshop start date will be subject to a cancellation fee of 100% of the workshop price