Mark your calendar! Monday, September 10th, Katherine Liepe-Levison will present her thoughts and images. Her topic will be “All in the Framing (and the cropping…)”

As usual, the meeting will be held at 7pm in the Community Room of the the Bridgehampton National Bank in Bridgehampton. Optionally, all members are invited to bring one or two of their own prints where they were very pleased by their framing of their subject to augment the discussion.

As photographers, paying more attention to framing devices can draw our viewers more deeply and intimately into our work.

Artists, educators, and philosophers including Bertolt Brecht, Herb Gardner, and Viktor Shklovsky have discussed the concept of “art” itself as a framing device. The frame can make ordinary objects in the world both strange and special by prolonging and intensifying our perceptual experiences.

Katherine’s presentation will review a few traditional framing techniques such as using multiple natural frames within a single shot and block printing or mosaic techniques that turn a single shot into multiple frames. The balance of the presentation then focuses on “hyper-framing and cropping” ideas that both reframe and transform the original shot through “extreme close up cropping” for some unusual effects. (The best results using “hyper-framing/cropping” are produced by high megapixel cameras 20mg and above).

Katherine Liepe-Levinson’s Tour de Force photographs and artwork have graced the covers of journals/Magazines, such as THE DRAMA REVIEW and ETC., and have been included in books on dance and education. Her clients have included museums, corporations, actors, pet-lovers, home magazines, proud parents, and special event organizers. Her Fine Art Land and Urbanscapes have been exhibited in New York City.

In addition to photography, Katherine Liepe-Levinson has performed as a professional dancer, actor, and writer on and off Broadway, as well as in film and television. She has a Phd in Theatre from New York City’s CUNY Graduate Center and has taught full-time in academic settings such as Colgate University and Hunter College. Her performing arts experience has given her a unique sense of timing and the ability to stage or to discover the most effective “scene” at hand. She is both a consummate director and a collaborator.