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Are you passionate about photography? Do you desire to live life surrounded by inspiring images? Can you imagine sharing in an organization devoted to the widest spectrum of photographic creativity?

Whether you are an amateur or professional photographer, photography student, collector, or ardent disciple of this art form, please consider joining (or renewing your membership in) the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California. At the same time, indulge yourself in the CPA’s exciting 2010–2011 Fine Print Program, an incredible opportunity to add to your photography collection at significantly reduced prices while helping to maintain the CPA’s vital goals: exhibition, education and aesthetic innovation.

The renowned Friends of Photography, founded in 1967 by such luminaries as Ansel Adams, Brett Weston and Morley Baer, was grounded in the regional traditions of California’s breathtaking Central Coast. For the past eighteen years, the Center for Photographic Art has promoted excellence in photography in the same space, evolving into a diverse and flourishing focal point for visual invention.

Please allow the Center for Photographic Art to continue fulfilling its commitment to the next generation of photographic artists. Your participation keeps the lectures, panel discussions and workshops thriving with distinguished guest artists, curators and educators. Your membership ensures the Center’s future group and solo exhibitions, auctions and juried shows. Your support guarantees that a spotlight shines on traditional and digital processes, color and black-and-white printing, and time-honored as well as cutting-edge visions.

• Free admission to events (except workshops)
• Discount on workshops
• 10% discount on items purchased in the gallery and online (except prints)
• Monthly newsletter
• Eligible to attend the annual Members Retreat Weekend

• All benefits of Regular membership for up to 2 adults and 2 children

• All the benefits of Couple/Family membership plus:
• One book selection: Oliver Gagliani’s Scores of Abstraction or Brad Cole’s The Last Dream (see below)
• Advance notice for all workshops

• All of the benefits of Garrapata Circle membership plus:
• One selection from our current Fine Print Program (except Midnight Walk)
• Listing on Donor Board in the gallery

• All of the benefits of Mono Lake Circle membership plus:
• Invitations to exhibit previews with the artist
• Two non-member guest passes per year for events (except workshops)
• One additional selection (for a total of two) from our current Fine Print Program or one selection of Midnight Walk

• All of the benefits of Point Lobos Circle membership plus:
• One additional selection (for a total of three) from our current Fine Print Program
• Two additional non-member guest passes (for a total of four) per year for events (except workshops)

Brad Cole: The Last Dream

The words" Last Dream" create a vision unique to our own dream experience. Artist Brad Cole gives us a distilled look at a body of work which steps into this cinematic territory, a visual sojourn moving between the land, sea and reality. A. D. Coleman, noted photographic art critic and author, says “the (book) transports the viewer – as if swept up in some momentous course of events beyond comprehension or control – through a suite of sensual and spiritual adventures in charged, enchanted places.”

Brad Cole, who lives and works in Carmel as a photographer and filmmaker/composer, is known for his ethereal photographs of the Big Sur coast. In The Last Dream, Cole melds his large format images with his cinematic and musical sensibilities, elegantly revealing how his work in one medium affects discovery in another.

Black and white, large format, 57 pages, 1997, retail price $50.00

Oliver Gagliani, Scores of Abstraction

For over six decades, Oliver Gagliani approached image making with the firm belief that objects could speak with him. As a highly trained musician and composer, he felt he had an added advantage, possessing a parallel ability to “listen with his eyes.” These images address the lost integrity of a salvaged but still occupied environment laden with lessons in humanity. Gagliani consistently engaged in making images where the actual absence of people symbolically enhances their presence in the objects.

According to noted photographic artist, Paul Caponigro, “Oliver Gagliani’s photographic studies exhibit a love of subject and silver. There is for him a fascination for the process of transformations encountered between the solid and the ephemeral worlds. With this work, Oliver has taken us beyond the traditional workings of the pristine silver print to an extraordinary visual experience of pure, delightful Gagliani abstraction.

Black and white, 54 pages, 2006, retail price $42.95

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Membership fees, print sales, and workshop fees all help to fund the Center's ongoing programs and activities– but unfortunately they do not cover all of the organization's operating costs.

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