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Light and Lens: Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age
The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy. New to this fourth Ideal for undergraduate students of digital photography and hobbyist photographers.
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488 pages, Hardcover
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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