Digital Photography & the Real World A Lecture by Stephan Johnson

Please join us for this special event at Napa Valley College...

A Lecture by Stephen Johnson
Digital Photography & the Real World
from National Parks to Antarctica

Friday September 14, 2012 7pm

Napa Valley College
Performing Arts Center, Room 142
2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. Napa, CA

Canon’s Explorer of Light Photographer - Stephen Johnson

Presented in a Special Photography Lecture
Stephen Johnson Photography

www.sjphoto.com ©2011 by Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

As a photographer, teacher and
designer, Stephen Johnson has
been teaching and working in photography
since 1977. His books include At
Mono Lake, the critically acclaimed The
Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland,
its tutorial companion, Making a Digital
Book and the 2006 Stephen Johnson on Digital
Photography (which has received accolades far and wide).
Stephen has taught both traditional and digital photography
at the college level, and has lectured at scores of seminars
and major conferences in the United States and Europe.
In 1999, Folio Magazine declared the publication of Johnson’s
digital photographs in Life Magazine to be one of the
Top 15 Critical Events in magazine publishing in the 2oth.
Century. Stephen Johnson was named as a 2003 inductee
into the Photoshop Hall of Fame, recognized for his achievements
in Art. Canon named Steve as one of their Explorers
of Light in 2006. In 2007 X-Rite named Stephen as a founding member of their exclusive
Coloratti group of photographers and educators honored for their skills in color management.
Current projects include With a New Eye, an all digital national parks photographic
project, a collection of recent work around the world Exquisite Earth, and huge digital
panoramics.
Stephen’s work in digital photography, desktop color separations and digital imaging has
included software and product development for clients such as Apple, Adobe, Eastman Kodak,
Epson, Foveon, HP, Leaf, Radius, Ricoh and SuperMac. His work with Adobe includes the creation
of the duotone curves shipped with their Photoshop software. Photographic clients have
included the Ansel Adams Publishing Trust, and the Friends of Photography. Johnson’s photographs
have been widely published and collected internationally. His work has been featured in
Life and dozens of other magazines and in television specials including features on ABC
News/Discovery Channel, PBS, internet TV and many local stations.
A New Realism: Photographer’s Gallery 1998
Johnson’s work births a “new realism,” a post modern expression beyond the constraints
of conventional photographic techniques and styles. Plunging into a rich pastel world
rarely attempted in photography, yet uncannily familiar to human experience, he is doing
battle with color photographic convention of contrasty, saturated renditions, forcing us to
see a world we know, but which photography
has largely ignored. His sensitive design
and color take us into a remarkable world
of sensual visual experience.