Creative Vision Speaker Series: Lectures from ImageMakers

Interpreting the Image
Charles Cramer
2:00 pm February 6
$10 admission for non-members*

“Interpreting a photographic image is dependent on how the human brain processes images,” says Cramer, a master printmaker with rare expertise in dye-transfer and digital printing. His presentation will include illustrations of his personal journey from black & white darkroom prints, through dye-transfer color printing, to his current method of digitally making inkjet prints.

Following in the footsteps of Ansel Adams, who said “the negative is the score and the  print is the performance,” Charles will focus on the importance of interpretation in “optimizing” an image, through techniques that make the image reflect more of what is “felt” in exposing a scene.

Richard Gadd
Looking at Photographs: An Analysis of Photographic Masterpieces.
October 6,2009

Surveying the history of photography Richard will show and discuss some of the most expensive photographs ever to come to public auction.  Covering many of the Master Photographers from the nineteenth and twentieth century he will evaluate some of the prints that have sold for more than one million dollars.  Looking at the time and place in history when these great image were created he will take apart the layers that help make a photograph so desirable and talk about why Museums around the world are building photographic collections to complement their major painting and sculpture collections.

Richard Gadd is a fine art photography expert with over 25 years of museum & fine art gallery experience, and is the director of the Weston Photography Gallery in Carmel.

Richard is an authority on 19th, 20th, 21st century fine art photography. His expertise includes extensive knowledge of archival conservation and preservation methods, care and handling of rare prints, and collection management.

Richard enjoys building relationships with collectors, connoisseurs, artists and other professionals in museums and educational institutions.

He is experienced in exhibition design and gallery management. His education includes the Getty Museum Institute, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Museum of American Art, Reynolda House.

Richard worked as the Curator of Photography at the Monterey Museum of Art for 9 years, following which he became the Executive Director of the museum until 2004, a total of 18 years with MMA.

The Weston Gallery is the oldest and most respected gallery of its kind, a world leader in the field of fine vintage and contemporary photography.

Richard's specialties are the buying, selling, and displaying fine art photography

Patrick Tregenza
August 4, 2009
6:30 pm
CPA Gallery



"I've been a commercial photographer for 18 years. I never attended a University but learned the craft through assisting. I assisted Batista-Moon for 2 years, Grant Huntington for 2 years and Larry Dale Gordon for 2 years. I also shot as a catalog photographer in Sausalito which was very educational.

"I started specializing in agriculture photography and food as well as architecture and lifestyle  I've built a solid base of agribusiness clients and continue to expand in that field. I have also gained a reputation as one of the leading food photographers in the area and have photographed the Earthbound Farm cookbook "Food To Live By," 3 Tassajara cookbooks, the Fandango cookbook, and the 25th anniversary "Silver Palate Cookbook." My wife, who happens to be a food stylist, works with me whenever I need her services.

"I've had the same studio in downtown Monterey for 15 years now, and live just a few blocks away with my wife Diane and our kids, Harry and Colette; 449 Calle Principal, Monterey, CA 93940, 831-372-3786, www.Tregenza.net, patrick@tregenza.net."

The Creative Vision Series, produced by ImageMakers, is an ongoing series of presentations by lecturers who display their current work and discuss their internal creative process.