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Photography in the Digital Age
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By
Robert Hirsch, The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now director of Light Research in Buffalo, NY. To learn more about Hirsch's writings and other projects visit lightresearch.net.
Description
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction
and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous
classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images
from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.
Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light
and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today's digital technology to create compelling images; and how
to output and preserve images in the digital world.Explore the history, theory and methods of digital image-making.
Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. You'll view, capture and think about images
from a new perspective.Increase your ability to analyze, discuss and write about your own work and the images of others.
Learn with exercises and assignments by leading digital educators. Innovative techniques will train your eye to make
the strongest visual statement.Solve visual problems and overcome image challenges. Whether you use a digital SLR or
a point-and-shoot camera, you'll get new strategies to master composition, design and light. View the full range of
the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists.
Robert Hirsch is a renowned
photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the
Light: A History of Photography. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many
workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of
Light Research in Buffalo, New York, and on the Visual Studies faculty of University of Buffalo/The State University of New York.
Audience
Photography students in beginning or intermediate digital imaging/digital photography courses. Intro to photography for programs that
are all digital. Serious amateur photographers that want to learn more about digital photography.
Contents
Preface
1. Why We Make Pictures: A Concise History of Visual Ideas
2.Design: Visual Foundations
3.Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and
Scanners
4.Exposure and Filters
5.Seeing with Light
6.Observation: Eyes Wide Open
7.Time, Space, Imagination and the Camera
8.Digital
Studio: Where the Virtual Meets the Material World
9.Presentation and Preservation
10.Seeing with a Camera
11.Solutions: Thinking
and Writing About Images
12.Photographer on Assignment
Addendum I: Safety
Addendum II: Careers
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 416 pages, publication date: SEP-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80855-0
ISBN-10: 0-240-80855-X
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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