BIOS | Greek Island Stock Photography

<body> <h1> | Greek Island Stock Photography</h1> <h2>Greek Island Stock Photography</h2> <div>Greek Island Photo Workshops "In Search of the Real Greece" with award-winning, ASMP pro photographer, Greek expert Glenn Steiner</div> <span class="links"><a href="/index.html" target="_top"><font color="#989898"></font></a></span>   <span class="links"><strong><a href="/portfolio.html" target="_top"><font color="#444">Greek Photography</font></a></strong></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=1" target="_top"><font color="#989898">Greek Photo Workshops - Cancelled due to COVID</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=2" target="_top"><font color="#989898">NEWS!</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=3" target="_top"><font color="#989898">BIOS</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=4" target="_top"><font color="#989898">The Metaphysics of Photography</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=5" target="_top"><font color="#989898">The Faces of Epiphany</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=7" target="_top"><font color="#989898">On Teaching Photography</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=9" target="_top"><font color="#989898">Links</font></a></span> <div> <style>  </style> <div class="encloser contentSpan" > <span class="encloser" > <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" style="width: 80%;"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left"> <p style="text-align: left;"> <style type="text/css"> </style> </p> <p class="links style2" style="text-align: left;"><a href="#_Introduction">Introduction</a> <span class="style5">|</span><a href="#_Personal_BIOS"> Personal BIOS</a> <span class="style5">|</span> <a href="#_Bibliography">Bibliography</a> <span class="style5">|</span> <a href="#_CinemaGreek">Cinema Greek</a> <span class="style5">|</span> <a href="#_Language">Language</a> <span class="style5">|</span> <a href="#_History">History</a> <span class="style5">|</span> <a href="#_Guides">Guides</a></p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><font color="#c0c0c0"><a name="_Introduction"></a></font><span class="style2">Introduction</span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p> </span></h3> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="238" src="/users/GlennSteiner1388/docs/Glenn-Portrait-Blue-Sky--72.gif" width="158" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="text-align: left;"><br /> Glenn Steiner has explored more than fifty-eight Greek islands by sailboat, motorcycle, ferry boat, donkey and sandaled foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glenn's love for Greece and all things Hellenic began twenty-one years ago when he first set foot on the magical island of Santorini.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">"The light was extraordinary!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All things shifted into greater clarity." To paraphrase Henry Miller in his <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Colossus of Maroussi</span>, no ugliness could exist in light such as this, only degrees of beauty.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">With that first step, Glenn began a journey of study and insight that has taken him to study with Dr. Maria Kotzamanidou of the University of California Berkeley and to San Francisco State University, to focus on the modern and ancient Greek language, their literature, history, movies, art and philosophy.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">"The academic experience can carry you only so far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Plato said in his Dialogues, one must make a choice whether to look at the shadows of the fire, dancing on the cave's wall, or to look directly at the fire itself."</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Glenn travels the islands two months a year in search of enlightenment: writing, exploring, teaching and photographing.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="238" src="/users/GlennSteiner1388/docs/Sifnos-Artemonas-Kohi-Churc.jpg" width="166" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="text-align: left;"><br /> In the off-season, <a href="http://glennsteiner.com">Glenn Steiner</a> shoots advertising and corporate photography on location for the world's largest corporations. His assignments have taken him to Europe: Greece, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Turkey, to Asia: the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, and across North America: Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Alaska and over twenty-five of the continental United States. Glenn's commercial work has captured many national and regional photographic awards to date. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts Rental Gallery represents Glenn Steiner's fine art Greek prints and photography.  His stock photograph was represented by Freelance Photographer's Guild, the oldest and first stock agency in the world and is now represented by Getty Images.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Glenn is the Co-President of the American Society of Media Photographer-<a href="http://www.asmpnorcal.org/">ASMP/NorCal</a>, the Society for Photographic Education-<a href="http://spenational.org/">SPE</a>, and National Association of Photoshop Professionals-<a href="http://photoshopuser.com/">NAPP</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Personal_BIOS"></a>Personal BIOS</h3> <p style="text-align: left;">After completing his English degree at <a href="http://www.willamette.edu/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Willamette University</span></a>, Glenn transferred to the prestigious <a href="http://www.houseofedu.com/brooksphoto/index.jsp"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brooks Institute of Photography</span></a> in 1970, to better master the technical, scientific demands of the photography business.</p> <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;"><img align="right" alt="" border="0" height="187" src="/users/GlennSteiner1388/docs/Stefani-Nude-Torso-Seascape-72.gif" width="238" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="text-align: left;"><br /> Yet, technique without the powerful balance of art and expression left Glenn wanting for more.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Glenn's epiphany struck during Ansel Adams' "Nude and the Landscape" workshop in the early 70's.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He studied the Zone System with Wynn Bullock and Imogen Cunningham. His life was changed. The synergy of technique and art and expression could be achieved without the selling of one's soul. For Glenn, the die had been cast.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">The second Ansel Adams' workshop in 1975 brought further revelation, while studying with international masters: Eikoh Hosoe from Japan, and Lucien Clergue of France. Inspired, he pulled up stakes and moved immediately to San Francisco.Glenn continued his studies at the <a href="http://www.sanfranciscoart.edu/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">San Francisco Art Institute</span></a> working with Aaron Siskind, Ruth Bernhard, Oliver Gagliani, and Pirkle Jones (Ansel Adams' first assistant).<br /> <br /> Glenn finished his second degree in 1976, and opened his first studio, <a href="http://www.glennsteiner.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Glenn Steiner Photography</span></a>, in San Francisco's SOMA.</p> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="166" src="/users/GlennSteiner1388/docs/Nude-As-Waterfall-Yosemite--72.gif" width="238" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="text-align: left;"><br /> For the next twenty-five years, Glenn's studio specialized in revolutionary, experimental work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using in-camera masking with up to five exposures, multiple images were merged directly onto a single piece of film.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">"We had to do it right the first time. Within this discipline, there was no margin for error. Everything had to be placed well and lit perfectly. In retrospect, it was in this way using analog technology that Rose, my assistants and I pre-staged the 'look' and the 'feel' of Photoshop by fifteen years."</p> <p style="text-align: left;">"The digital revolution has transformed photography in terms of its immediacy and flexibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Digital cameras continue to progress on the quality level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe that digital has now surpassed the look and feel of traditional photography."<br /> <br /> Glenn has been shooting digital assignments since 1999.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">After thousands of successful analog and digital projects, Glenn and Rose bring their combined experience and interdisciplinary teaching philosophy to Greek Island Workshops.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Bibliography"></a>Bibliography</h3> <p style="text-align: left;">I've included a partial bibliography of Greek reading that I have studied and enjoyed for your reading pleasure.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Iliad</u>, Homer (translated by Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox)</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Odyssey</u>, Homer (translated by Robert Fagles & Bernard Knox)</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Santorini</u>, Dr Walter Friedrich</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Girl with the Golden Eyes</u>, Stratis Myrivilis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Mermaid Madonna</u>, Stratis Myrivilis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Life in the Tomb</u>, Stratis Myrivilis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Tales From a Greek Island</u>, Papadiamantis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Zorba The Greek</u>, Nikos Kazantzakis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Love and Freedom</u>, Nikos Kazantzakis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Odyssey</u>, Nikos Kazantzakis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Christ Recrucified</u>, Nikos Kazantzakis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Odysseus Unbound</u>, Nikos Kazantzakis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Colossus of Maroussi</u>, Henry Miller</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Reinventing Paradise</u>, Edmund Keeley</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Songs of Kings</u>, Barry Unsworth</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Greeks Have a Word for It</u>, Barry Unsworth</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Pascali's Island</u>, Barry Unsworth</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Crete</u>, Barry Unsworth</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Dinner With Persephone</u>, Patricia Storace</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Sailing The Wine Dark Sea</u>, Thomas Cahill</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Fire In The Sea</u>, Walter Friedrich</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Voyage To Atlantis</u>, James W. Mavor</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greek Waters Pilot</u>, Heikell</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Elen</u>i, Nicholas Gage</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Portrait of Greece</u>, Nicholas Gage</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Greek Islands</u>, Lawrence Durrell</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Alexandria Quartet</u>, Lawrence Durrell</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Bitter Lemons</u>, Lawrence Durrell</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>My Family and Other Animals</u>, Gerald Durrell</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Corelli's Mandolin</u>, Louis de Bernieres</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Middlesex</u>, Jeffrey Eugenides</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Collected Poems</u>, C. P. Cavafy</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greek Poetry Translations</u>, M. Byron Raizis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Xenos</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">, David A. Ross</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>A Winter Garden</u>, David A. Ross</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Two Thrillers</u>: <u>What Did The Blackbird Hear?</u> & <u>Replay</u>, Giorgos Maniotis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Kalamas and Acheron</u>, Christoforos Milionis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Old Curiosity Shop</u>, Costoula Mitropoulou</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Magus</u>, John Fowles</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Joanna and Ulysses</u>, May Sarton</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Cretan Runner</u>, George Psychoundakis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Greek-O-File</u>, a compendium of writings about Greece, Sylvia & Terry Cook</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Olive Grove</u>, Katherine Kizilos</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Dancing Girl</u>, Thordis Simonsen</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Jason Voyage</u>, Tim Severin</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>We Followed Odysseus</u>, Hal Roth</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Counter-Tenor's Daughter</u>, Elizabeth Falconer</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>A Lone Red Apple</u>, Aurelia</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Bitter Sea</u>, Faith Warn</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Xania Town News</u>, Douglas Bullis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Athenian Murders</u>, Jose Carlos Somoza</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Death in Cyprus</u>, M. M. Kaye</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Aphrodite's Island</u>, Andrew John Garcia</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">A Journey to Crete</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">, Popi Panagis</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>A House in Corfu</u>, Emma Tennant</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>On A Greek Island</u>, Fionnuala Brennan</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Still Life in Crete</u>, Anthony Cox</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Separate Lives</u>, Sara Hylton</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>One Mykonos</u>, James Davidson</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Patouchas</u>, Ioannis Konkylakis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Priest Fainted</u>, Catherine Davidson</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>It's All Greek to Me</u>, John Mole</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Summer of my Greek Taverna</u>, Tom Stone</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greek Salad</u>, Miles Lambert-Gocs</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_CinemaGreek"></a>Cinema Greek</h3> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Zorba the Greek</em> - Michael Kakogiannis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>A Touch of Spice</em> - Tassos Boulmetis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Z</em> - Costa Gravas</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Amerika Amerika</em> - Elia Kazan</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Stella</em> - Michael Kakogiannis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>A Matter of Dignity</em> - Michael Kakogiannis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Elektra</em> - Michael Kakogiannis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Atillos</em> - Michael Kakogiannis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>The Girl in Black</em> - Michael Kakogiannis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Iphigenia</em> - Michael Kakogiannis</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Ulysses Gaze</em> - Angelopoulos</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Eternity and a Day</em> - Angelopoulos</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>The Poor Devil </em>(in Greek) - Thanassos Vengos</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>The Drunkard</em> (in Greek) -</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Macedonia</em> - Manakia</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Shirley Valentine</em> -</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Mamma Mia -</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Summer Lovers</em> - Kleiser</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Language"></a>Language</h3> <p style="text-align: left;"><o:p><u>A</u></o:p><u><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></strong>Manual of Modern Greek</u>, Farmakides</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Teach Yourself Greek</u>, Aristarhos Matsukas</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Berlitz Greek Phrase Book & Dictionary</span></u></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Oxford Greek Minidictionary</span></u></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary</span></u></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>600 Modern Greek Verbs, </u>Carmen Capri-Karka</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_History"></a>History</h3> <p style="text-align: left;"><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">A Concise History of Greece</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">, Clogg</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greek Mythology</u>, Sofia Souli</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a name="_Guides"></a>Guides</h3> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greek Islands</u>, Lonely Planet, written in part by my friend, Michael Clark</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Greek Islands</u>, Rough Guide</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greek Island Hopping 2013</u> (etc), Freewin Poffley</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greek Islands</u>, Frommer's</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>The Greek Islands</u>, Eyewitness</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greece</u>, Let's Go</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greece</u>, National Geographic Traveler</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Off The Beaten Track: Greece</u>, Geoffrey Brown</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Insight Pocket Guide: Athens</u>, Elizabeth Boleman-Herring</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece</u>, Richard Stoneman</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><u>Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion</u>, Artemis Leontis</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> </span> </div> <div> <script src="/js/js.js"></script> <script defer src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" data-pin-build="parsePinBtns"></script> </body>