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First French Large Format Conference & Exhibition in N&icirc;mes, France next June 4 and 5, 2004.



Dear Large Format friends

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It is a pleasure to announce the first Large Format Conference &
Exhibition in N&icirc;mes, south of France next June, Friday 4 and Saturday
June 5, 2004.

For those who will travel to Western Europe next June, welcome to the
conference. N&icirc;mes is located not far from Arles, a well-known
photographic "mecca" in France (even Ansel Adams visited Arles,
invited by Lartigue !!). N&icirc;mes can be reached easily by motorway and
high speed train from Paris, Lyons and Marseilles. Major French
airports are Paris seconded by Nice on the riviera ; closest large
domestic airport to N&icirc;mes is Montpellier. Travel time to N&icirc;mes by
high-speed train (TGV) from Paris are : 2 hours to Lyons plus 1h30
from Lyons to N&icirc;mes ; direct TGV from Paris to N&icirc;mes in only 3 hours.

The conference is organized by Henri Peyre
(http://www.galerie-photo.com) professor of photography at the N&icirc;mes
School of Fine Arts. The conference is hosted by the N&icirc;mes School of
fine Arts, admission is FREE. Language will be... French ;-);-) but
many contributors do speak English fluently.

On Friday June 4, 7 conferences on LF photography plus one workshop on
panoramic photography. On Saturday June 6, hands-on various view
camera models plus a pinhole workshop. Acces to conferences is free
and unrestricted, however the number of attendants to the practical
pinhole worshop is strictly limited to 10.

An overview of the program :

on Friday 4, conferences by Henri Peyre, Henri Gaud, Emmanuel Bigler
will try to convince you of the interest of large format,
high-resolution photography. So since you are already convinced, you
can skip this ;-) Marc Genevrier, Arnaud Frich and Yvon Haze will
address the question of fine digital prints in all aspects,
resolution, color calibration, and fine digital print from large
format film. Chrsitian Nze will close the series of conferences with
alternative fine print processes (e.g. platinum, palladium etc..)

On Friday 4 evening a panorama photography workshop will be conducted
by Arnaud Frich.

On Saturday 6, pinhole workshop by Robert Colognoni ; exhibition of
large format prints either silver-halide or digital, informal
gathering and hands-on view cameras as well as panorama cameras.

N&icirc;mes has a rich Roman heritage including a Roman Circus and one of
the most well preserved Roman Temple, the Square House. Participants
to the hands-on sessions will be invited to pratical photo sessions
dowtown N&icirc;mes.
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Looking forward to meeting you in N&icirc;mes June 4 and 5 2004 !



Links to detailed program (in French..:

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http://www.galerie-photo.com/congres...j-avril-04.pdf
http://www.galerie-photo.com/program...er-stenope.pdf
http://www.galerie-photo.com/inscription-stenope.pdf
http://www.galerie-photo.com/congres...j-avril-04.pdf
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