Connie Imboden’s photographs are represented in the permanent collections of many museums in the US and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in an extensive range of group and solo shows at galleries and museums in England, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile and the United States. Her fifth book published in 2009 from Insight Editions is called Reflections, 25 Years of Photographs by Connie Imboden. Her first book of images, Out of Darkness, won the Silver Medal in Switzerland’s “Schönste Bucher Aus Aller Welt (Most Beautiful Book in the World)” award in 1993. Imboden’s work has been featured in such periodicals as Focus, Aperture, American Photo, Camera and Darkroom, FotoPractica, Photographies, PHOTOgraphics, Photo Metro, Photonews, Photo Review, Black and White, Ag, View Camera, Inked, Vis A Vis, and Zoom Magazine. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
The Human Form
This classic subject is still the most controversial one. With good reason! The human form makes a magnificent subject - alluring, graceful, beautiful and elegant. The nude is also a provocative and complex subject.
The body challenges preconceptions of beauty, the understanding of "self" and humanity, and the mysterious dynamics between body and spirit, body and mind. Engaging in this process demands that one relies on an intuitive eye - that is, seeing without the typical frames with which we make sense of the world. Freeing oneself of these constraints opens new ways of seeing. The result can be startling, exciting, and liberating.
The goal of the class is two-fold: first, to engage in exercises that helps participants recognize and develop their intuitive sense, and secondly, to photograph the nude with increased reliance on the intuitive eye. Participants photograph the nude in a variety of locations, directed by assignments designed to see and photograph this powerful subject in unique and personal ways.
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