The Important Connection Between Art and Craft and Why It Matters to Photographers
Freeman Patterson

Fluency in the photographic craft, i.e. ease in using photographic tools and techniques and knowing the building blocks of visual design plus useful guidelines for arranging them in picture space (composition) does not produce art any more than fluency in a language means that a person has anything of value to express. ART is conceived in our imagination, our dreams, and our passions. We use CRAFT to give it birth, that is visible or audible form. This presentation explores this important connection.

Bio:
FREEMAN PATTERSON of Shamper’s Bluff, New Brunswick, Canada, has had a career in photography and visual design that spans more than 60 years. He has taught innumerable workshops in many countries, but especially in Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand. He has authored 15 books, five of them on photography and visual design; his most recent, Embracing Creation, was published in conjunction with the opening of his large retrospective exhibition at New Brunswick’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery in September 2013. Freeman is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and a recipient of the Photographic Society of America’s highest award, the Progress Medal. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1985 and the Order of New Brunswick in 2013.

See www.freemanpatterson.com for more complete information and to read the current and back issues of “Images, Ideas, and Reflections,” Freeman’s periodical letter (six issues per year).

PGNS members can go to the members only page for the WebEx link to the meeting.
Non-members of the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia can register for the presentation using the following link: Eventbrite