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Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
Light & 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 The Expressive Use of Ideas , Materials and Processes ; Exploring Color From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio ; and Seizing the 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. Robert Hirsch's new edition of Exploring Color Photography is also now available from Focal Press!
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 The Expressive Use of Ideas , Materials and Processes ; Exploring Color From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio ; and Seizing the 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. Robert Hirsch's new edition of Exploring Color Photography is also now available from Focal Press!
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416 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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August 13, 2023
This was my recommended textbook for a photography course that I took, but we really didn’t use it in class. As a result, I decided to take my time reading it and working through it, paying attention to the assignments, reading the captions, looking up some of the references. It is an excellent text, though not a quick reference. If you want something involved and detailed that covers lots of ground, this is it.
May 29, 2009
NOTE: This book has been on my currently-reading shelf for quite some time. The reason is complicated and admittedly silly. Describing it in much detail I fear would require revealing more of my schizophrenic thought process than I am comfortable with. So, here is my single sentence excuse: I endowed this book, after a cursory scan at the store, with more authority than perhaps it warranted and, therefore, became dissappointed midway through. That being said, I have attempted to make this short review as objective as possible.
If I were professor of a photography class made for art students who are not studying to be photographers, this is the book I would choose as the main text. It touches on every aspect of photography; history, design principles, forms, exposure, equipment, how to think about photography, how to write about photography, and on and on. It is by no means specific and by every means exhaustive. There are even suggested exercises to help you grasp the concepts within.
What I valued most were the images accompanied by artist's statement or relevant commentary. The author did a great job choosing talented artists from amongst both canon and the vast population of under appreciated photographers. I felt exposed to works that I otherwise would have missed.
What I valued least was the chapter on photographic history because the images had little or nothing to do with the text. Although, as the book moves along images become more and more relevant to the chapter.
Frankly, I thought a book that focused on both the technical and the creative was rare and potentially very insightful. It was instead too general which made it very tedious to pick out the few gems of useful information and ignore parts already known to me.
If I were professor of a photography class made for art students who are not studying to be photographers, this is the book I would choose as the main text. It touches on every aspect of photography; history, design principles, forms, exposure, equipment, how to think about photography, how to write about photography, and on and on. It is by no means specific and by every means exhaustive. There are even suggested exercises to help you grasp the concepts within.
What I valued most were the images accompanied by artist's statement or relevant commentary. The author did a great job choosing talented artists from amongst both canon and the vast population of under appreciated photographers. I felt exposed to works that I otherwise would have missed.
What I valued least was the chapter on photographic history because the images had little or nothing to do with the text. Although, as the book moves along images become more and more relevant to the chapter.
Frankly, I thought a book that focused on both the technical and the creative was rare and potentially very insightful. It was instead too general which made it very tedious to pick out the few gems of useful information and ignore parts already known to me.
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