Beyond Tradition - Cara Weston & Susan Bein

 

 

 

 

w i z m o s i s

superlative visual everything

+ pithy verbiage

+ rent-a-brain

why ditz around? hire someone good!

 

 

 

stock • 

events •

portraits •

dogs •

illustration •

 

 

 

 

 

print design • 

web design •

patterns •

 

 

 

Workshops & Teaching

As soon as I learn something, I begin teaching it.

I taught my sister to read before she was in kindergarden.

I taught my fellow students to develop film and print photographs when I was in high school,

and by the time I was in college I was teaching photography classes for adults.

I've taught over 7,000 classes to a hugely diverse population.

Below are my current venues.

•  Beyond Tradition Workshop

Along with my colleague, Cara Weston, I'll be doing a workshop in Big Sur, California, in November 2008.

The workshop will include time to photograph famous local spots like Big Sur, Point Lobos,

and the remaining buildings of Fort Ord, a deserted military base.

We'll offer night photography and 'drive-by-shooting opportunities as well.

There will be three sessions of Photoshop training and a presentation of inspirational work.
Click here for the brochure

•  Fenixworks in downtown Portland, Oregon

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & Flash CS3)

•  Newspace Center for Photography in SE Portland.

LEARNING TO USE YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA
Saturday, September 20th
12-5pm

BEYOND THE SNAPSHOT
Three Saturdays, September 27th through October 11th
2-5pm

•  Private and Corporate Training

 

Writing & Editing

I love to write and edit.

It's an integral part of design,

because it's part of the whole communication bundle that attempts to get a message across.

I never design without reading the text,

and that has proven to be a very good thing for my clients,

many of whom are writers themselves.

Beyond proofreading, it's especially important, in these times of short attention spans, to be pithy.

So I'm going to end this, and let my words speak for themselves.

And oh, PS, I taught journalism.

Below are links to some examples of my writing.

Web

Blog - ok, it's old, but it's still fun to read

Stories

 

About

Wizmosis is me, Susan Bein.

I pronounce my last name Bean because it's more fun that way.

My last boss called me the 'Supreme Bean' and I think it was a compliment.

When I taught high school I used to call myself, the Mean Miss Bean,

but no one bought that.

I've been a designer and photographer for a very long time.

I've been a creative type since anyone can remember,

and it permeates everything I do, from buying a toothbrush to peeling an orange.

It's hard to live with, but it makes me good at what I do.

And what I do is design things and photograph things,

and teach other people to do the same, in their own way.

 

Beyond Tradition

 

Why?

Every generation has its own artistic and emotional voice.

Edward Weston and his colleagues broke away from

the pictorialism that came before them and redefined

photography as an art in its own right, celebrating it

for its own qualities; sharp focus, depth of field, etc.

 

Time has passed, camera technology has taken another

giant step, and it’s time to push still further. We must

find fresh ways of seeing because to re-create what has

already been done lacks the emotional freshness and

honesty of new discovery.

 

It’s the spirit of pushing past traditions, into new and

unique visions that interest us. We’re looking for

people who want to explore further, through exercises

and assignments designed to challenge creativity and

open participants to new photographic possibilities.

 

About us

 

Cara Weston was born and raised in Carmel, California. She has

lived in the world of photography all her life. A photographer

in her own right, she is the daughter of photographer Cole

Weston and granddaughter of the fabled Edward Weston.

She worked with her father Cole and uncle, Brett Weston, during

the 1970s, learning her craft and developing her eye.

Cara spent several years as director of the Weston Gallery in

Carmel, where she curated numerous shows, featuring the

work of Yousuf Karsh, Ansel Adams, Edward, Cole and Brett

Weston and many others. She is on the Board of Trustees for

the Edward Weston Estate.

Cara has broken with family tradition and embraced digital

photography. Her family name has been both a gift and a

burden, and she has worked hard to evolve her own

style. Her work is widely sought after by

collectors. She lives and photographs

on the magnificent Big Sur Coast

and travels extensively. She has

two grown daughters.

http://carawestonphotography.com

Susan Bein is a Californian who has lived many places and

currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Photography became

her passion from the moment she picked up a camera at the

age of fifteen. In her teens she took workshops with Ansel

Adams, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Paul Caponigro,

Nathan Lyons, Beaumont & Nancy Newhall, and others. She

took classes from the eccentric Edmund Teske, and majored

in Photography in college, winning a post-grad teaching

fellowship. After that, for all kinds of reasons she put down

her cameras. She became a graphic designer, and teacher

of graphic design, and an Adobe Certified Expert

in Photoshop.

Then she picked up a digital camera and the muse

returned. She joined the online photo

community, flickr. At present she has over

3,000 images posted, and has had more

than 500,000 online visitors from all

over the world. She has an upcoming

show at Cameraworks Gallery in Portland. As

her photos suggest, she agrees with Cartier Bresson,

who supposedly said, “Focus is a bourgeoise concept.”

http://themeanmissbean.com/wizmographics

http://flickr.com/photos/wizmo

 

 

 

 

Mean Miss Bean has taught A.I. class at MPC, Monterey, CA