Fifth Conversations about Photography conference
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Registration is open for the fifth "Conversations about Photography" conference Saturday, March 24, at Lake Forest College in Illinois, 32 miles north of Chicago. The Center for Railroad Photography & Art has scheduled seven speakers and a discussion about how the Internet has changed railroad photography.
Mail your registration now to be sure of space at the group luncheon, or email (info@ railphoto-art.org) or call us (608-251-5785) by Wednesday. We accept registrations at the door, but may have to offer lunch at another location.
The conference, in cooperation with the Lake Forest College archives and special collections department, is at McCormick Auditorium in Johnson Science Center, one block south of Deerpath Road in Lake Forest. Canon has joined the list of sponsors. The advance registration of $65 ($75 for nonmembers) includes lunch, breaks, parking, and reception. Coffee and soda will be available at 8 a.m. Memberships are available at the door.
Program
The program for the informal yet informative gathering includes:
8:45 a.m., Arthur Miller, archivist and librarian for special collections at Lake Forest College, welcome.
8:50 a.m., Kevin Keefe, Vice President-Editorial, Publisher, Kalmbach Publishing Co., opening remarks.
9 a.m., Carson Burrington, Executive Director, Why the Center for Railroad Photography & Art.
9:15 a.m., Jim Shaughnessy, the self-taught photographer from Troy, New York, moved from his first published efforts in the 1950s to recognition by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society in 1987. He remains active in railroad photography, but retired in 1995 from his profession, civil engineering.
9:45 a.m., Walter E. Zullig Jr., New York, attorney who retired as legal counsel for MTA Metro-North Railroad in December 2002. His column about the rights of railfan photographers appeared in Trains in October.
10:30 a.m., Break
10:40 a.m., Sayre Kos, senior at Lake Forest College, the next generation. Kos assists at the college’s Archives and Special Collections Department. He has worked as a conductor for the Wisconsin & Southern and as an editorial intern for Trains magazine.
11:10 a.m., Steve Barry, an active photographer (since 1979) and managing editor of Railfan & Railroad magazine (since 1998), on creative photography.
11:50 a.m., Lunch
1 p.m., Simpson Kalisher, New York, author-photographer for the landmark book, Railroad Men (1961), which received an award from the American Institute of Graphic Artists.
1:45 a.m., John Roskoski, in “Surf and the Southern Pacific,” provides an indepth look at railroading in California’s Lompoc Valley and the last days of the train order station next to the ocean, closed in 1985.
2:30 p.m., Break
2:45 p.m., Misko Kranjec, Ljubljana, Slovenia, co-winner in the Center’s 2006 awards program. He frequently photographs railroaders at work.
3:30 p.m., Announcement of award winners
3:35 p.m., Panel with Kranjec, Steve Crise, Greg McDonnell, and Barry, moderated by Jeff Brouws, on the impact of the Internet on rail photography.
4:30 p.m., Trains magazine is sponsoring the reception at Glenn Rowan House.
On Sunday from 9-11 a.m., for people attending the conference, photographer M. Ross Valentine will host a seminar and discussion about using iView and digital workflow. There will be additional charge of $15 to cover room expenses. Valentine's column, "Digital Photography for Dinosaurs," is in Trains, March 2007, page 68.
Venue
Center for Railroad Photography & Art 1914 Monroe St., P.O. Box 259330, Madison, WI 53725-9330 info@railphoto-art.org / phone 608-252-5785
