Houston Center for Photography

Photography II
2019-05-23 18:00 - 21:00, 2019-08-12 18:00 - 21:00 UTC

Camera Basics
2019-06-08 12:00 - 18:00, 2019-07-13 12:00 - 18:00, 2019-08-24 12:00 - 18:00, 2019-09-28 12:00 - 18:00

Travel Photography
2019-06-11 18:00 - 21:00

Photoshop Crash Course
2019-06-15 12:00 - 15:00

Possible Selves: A Lecture by Horace Ballard
2019-06-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a lecture by Williams College Museum of Art curator, Horace Ballard, on the Museum’s exhibition possible selves: queer foto vernaculars. Ballard will speak about the curation of the exhibition and the global impact of queer identities on the evolution of portrait photography. The works exhibited in possible selves span over 60 years of photographic history and include artists such as Nan Goldin, Andy Warhol, and Lorna Simpson, along with over 200 images from social media. By linking the fine art photograph with the social media snapshot, possible selves emphasizes the ways in which queer communities are created through visual technologies and how photography has been used to interrogate normative and non-normative identities since the beginning of the medium.
This lecture is part of a city-wide initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which paved the way for the gay liberation movement and the contemporary fight for LGBTQIA rights in America.
This lecture is part of Houston Center for Photography’s ongoing series, Words & Pictures, a lecture and conversation series between photographers, writers, and thinkers of the medium.
About Horace Ballard
Curator of American Art, Williams College Museum of Art

Ballard specializes in American art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. He is particularly interested in the history of photography, ideologies of Romanticism, gender in early-American portraiture, the visual culture(s) of war, and the formulation of queer canons across the history of art. He received a Ph.D. from Brown University and is currently preparing a book manuscript, entitled, “The Re-construction of Beauty: Photography, Whiteness, and US Masculinity, 1865-1900.” He has held prior positions at the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); the Yale University Art Gallery; the Birmingham Museum of Art; and Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation. He also serves as a freelance writer and consultant on the black radical tradition and post-black art practices, writing and editing for the Smithsonian; the Vera List Center of Art and Politics at the New School; the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore.

Natural Light Portraiture
2019-06-25 18:00 - 21:00

Out of the Box: Using Your Digital Camera
2019-06-27 18:00 - 21:00, 2019-09-13 14:00 - 17:00

Visual Storytelling
2019-07-08 18:00 - 21:00

Photography I
2019-07-09 18:00 - 21:00, 2019-08-15 10:00 - 13:00, 2019-08-29 18:00 - 21:00

Studio Lighting: Still Life & Product
2019-07-15 18:00 - 21:00

2019 Center Annual Profound Movement Opening Reception
2019-07-19 17:30 - 20:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Join Houston Center for Photography for this year’s Center Annual Exhibition, juried by Shane Lavalette, Director of Lightwork.
The Center Annual is Houston Center for Photography’s yearly group exhibition that seeks to highlight and provide insight into current themes, technologies, and practices in photography. The show features a diverse array of works from members of our global photography community and is selected by a leading curator, editor, or artist. This annual exhibition opens our galleries to photographers from anywhere in the world, whether emerging, mid-career, or established, and as such, aims to provide viewers with critical insight into our current moment—both within the field of photography and within society at large. Shane Lavalette, director of Light Work, selected 38 artists out of over 200 entries from around the globe.
Of those selected, three artists will receive the Beth Block Center Annual Honoraria, generously supported by The Beth Block Foundation. Deanna Pizzitelli, Samantha Box, and Zora Murff will receive $1,000 each, and will be featured in the Fall 2019 issue of spot magazine.
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Seminar: Developing Your Photographic Voice
2019-08-13 10:00 - 13:00

Photoshop I
2019-08-13 19:00 - 21:00

Lightroom Classic CC
2019-08-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-09-16 19:00 - 2019-10-14 21:00

Printing Your Photographs
2019-09-09 00:00 - 2019-09-24 21:38

Photoshop II
2019-09-13 15:00 - 2019-10-11 17:00

Opening Reception: Hue and Saturate
2019-09-13 22:30 - 2019-09-14 01:00 | Houston Center for Photography
Please join Houston Center for Photography for the opening reception of Hue and Saturate, an exhibition of works by Daniel Gordon, on Friday, September 13, 2019 from 5:30-8pm. Curator remarks begin at 6pm.

Hue and Saturate brings together 11 works from New York-based artist, Daniel Gordon, for his first solo exhibition in Houston. Often described in the style of Matisse’s cut-outs or Cezanne’s still lifes, Gordon’s work uses shape, color, and size to playfully disrupt our ideas about medium-specificity, artifice, and photography in the age of the internet. Born in 1980, Gordon is squarely positioned in a pre and post-internet world. His tableaus break down classical objects found in still lifes into constructed forms and in some cases trace references, shadows, and pixels of flora, fauna, produce, and tableware. This emphasis on the digital construction of the image has a hide-and-seek characteristic throughout this show, alternating between explicitly revealing itself and tucking itself into painterly compositions of paper objects. While Matisse or Cezanne’s work might refer more to the shift from objective to subjective perception through the construction of the painted form, Gordon’s use of pattern, repetition and digital imaging illustrates the deconstruction and reconstitution of form from one reality or plane to another.
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Composition Crash Course
2019-09-21 12:00 - 18:00

Text + Image
2019-09-26 19:00 - 2019-10-10 21:00

September Capture Crawl
2019-09-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Gateway Classic Cars, 1910 Cypress Station Drive, Houston, TX, 77090, United States

Focusing Spot: A Creative Space for Teens
2019-10-03 16:30 - 2019-10-31 18:30
