Portraiture and the Art of Imitation with Deborah Feingold

Portraiture and the Art of Imitation with Deborah Feingold

Workshop | Available

200 Port Washington Blvd. Manhasset, NY 11030 United States
Indoor/Outdoor
All Levels
3/8/2025 (one day)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM on Sat
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$260.00 USD
$225.00 USD

Portraiture and the Art of Imitation with Deborah Feingold

Workshop | Available

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it is also a highly creative and playful way to explore one’s own personal style

through the guise of imitating others. Photographers are encouraged to have a personal vision, be unique, and perhaps to see as no one has before. That can sometimes feel like a daunting task.
But, what if you imagined yourself as someone else behind the camera; ignoring that voice, that pressure?

What would you discover about yourself and your style in that process?

That is what this workshop explores!


Deborah will begin the Workshop with a discussion and visual presentation of past and present notable portrait photographers.

The participants will then be assigned 5 photographers from the presentation and instructed to shoot in their style; concluding with

critiques of their work from the day.


Requirements:

Students must have a digital camera and know how to use their camera on manual mode.

  • Classes are confirmed one week prior so please register as soon as possible. They may be canceled due to low enrollment.

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Deborah Feingold

Deborah Feingold moved to New York City in 1976, where her friendship with a jazz musician inspired her to embrace a spirit of improvisation in her photography and led to her first major assignment: shooting jazz icon Chet Baker. Her work with Baker and others musicians caught the attention of Musician magazine, who hired her as their New York liaison. Turning her small apartment into a makeshift studio and freewheeling it on the streets of New York, Feingold captured indelible images of some of the most legendary names in music, from B.B. King and James Brown to Bono and Madonna.

Feingold's unique ability to put her subjects almost immediately at ease engendered the kind of rare moments of honesty and intimacy that became the hallmark of her work, and over the ensuing decades, her photographs would appear in Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek and The New York Times among others, along with countless album and book covers. The portraits in her catalog read like a who's who of cultural icons: President Barack Obama, Mick Jagger, Bill Gates, Tom Wolfe, Prince, Johnny Depp, George Carlin, and many more.