Lecture on photographing words of art

"Photographing works of art"
The ICON Paintings Group invite you to a talk given by
Andrew Smart
Director of the Fine Art Photographers, A. C. Cooper
at the ICON Office
1 London Bridge, London SE1 9BG
Tuesday, 5 October 2010 at 6.30pm prompt

Doors open at 6pm

Tickets: ICON
members:  UKP5, non- members: UKP10

Please register by sending your name and stating if you are an ICON
member

Your name must be on the security list no later than

Friday, 1 October 2010

Free wine and cheese inc. in price of ticket

RSVP

    Clare Finn
    finnclare<-at->aol<.>com
    +44 20 7937 1895

The talk will cover practical advice on topics such as:

Techniques in photographing 3-dimensional artworks and 2-dimensional
paintings;

Tips to help if the artwork is behind glass; The sort of equipment
best required to do the job; Lighting techniques; Dealing with
contrast on old master pictures;

Your Question and Answers.

Andrew Smart has spent the last 20 or so years of his working life
in the field of Fine Art Photography and in 2003 became the Director
of A.C.Cooper. A.C.Cooper is a company that has specialised in this
field since 1918 and has worked for many prestigious clients such as
The Royal Collection, The Courtauld Institute, The Whitt library and
also Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillip's auctioneers. The brand that
A.C.Cooper offers is most popular with many major galleries,
artists, academics and independent collectors and their work and
reputation has taken them all over the world on a number of
assignments.

Andy has been involved in the photography of many important works of
art for the purposes of academic research, Advertising, Insurance,
Point of Sale and website production. In 1994 he spent a year
working in the conservation workshop at the Wallace Collection where
he helped with the photography of artworks as well as gaining some
hands on experience working in a conservation studio and museum
environment. Andy is still on hand and regularly gives advice to the
Wallace Collection and their in house photography department on
photographic issues as they arise.

Since 2003, digital photography has become the preferred choice of
tool for many of our clients although Andy is trained in the use of
all film formats and still gets asked to shoot them from time to
time! He is also a competent Black and White printer and darkroom
technician.


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