Charles Altschul
Charles Altschul is a photographer, graphic designer and education consultant specializing in the use of technology in the teaching of art. He received a B.A. and M.F.A. from Yale where he also held a faculty appointment as Senior Lecturer. He subsequently chaired the University President's Council committee to study the future direction of the School of Art.
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In 1991, he moved to Camden, Maine to become Director of Education at the newly-formed Eastman Kodak Center for Creative Imaging. In 1997, he created the nation's first BFA program in Multimedia at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has also been a consultant to the president of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Executive Director of the Creative Media Center in Cupertino, California, and head of the computer graphics studio at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. |
He has lectured at many institutions including the MIT Media Lab and the Columbia School of Journalism. He was Chair of the 1996 American Center for Design conference, Design for the Internet, and has judged international new media competitions for "Communication Arts" magazine and the Art Directors' Club Annual.
Altschul's interests stem from contemporary as well as historical perspectives.
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As founder and president of the New Overbrook Press (subsequently the Camden Hills Press), he has published handcrafted books created through the traditional methods of letterpress and intaglio printing. Altschul has exhibited widely, won numerous honors and awards and his work is in the collections of many libraries and museums.
He is currently working on a new series of photographs featuring overlapping panoramas of the female figure in the landscape. |