The Focal Press Companion To The Constructed Image In Contemporary Photography

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The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography

Author : Marni Shindelman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317299108
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography written by Marni Shindelman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium examines the choices, construction, inclusions and exemptions, and expanded practices involved in the process of creating a photograph. Focusing on work created in the past twenty-five years, this volume is divided into sections that address a separate means of creating photographs as careful constructs: Directing Spaces, Constructing Places, Performing Space, Building Images, and Camera-less Images. Introduced by both a curator and a scholar, each section features contemporary artists in conversation with curators, critics, gallerists, artists, and art historians. The writings include narratives by the artist, writings on their work, and examinations of studio practices. This pioneering book is the first of its kind to explore this topic beyond those artists building sets to photograph.

Visual Culture and the Forensic

Author : David Houston Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100054673X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture and the Forensic written by David Houston Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Houston Jones builds a bridge between practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example in performance and installation art as well as photography. Contemporary work in these areas responds both to forensic evidence, including crime scene photography, and to some of the assumptions underpinning its consumption. It asks how we look, and in whose name, foregrounding and scrutinising the enduring presence of voyeurism in visual media and instituting new forms of ethical engagement. Such work responds to the object-oriented culture associated with the forensic and offers a reassessment of the relationship of human voice and material evidence. It displays an enduring debt to the discursive model of testimony which has so far been insufficiently recognised, and which forms the basis for a new ethical understanding of the forensic. Jones’s analysis brings this methodology to bear upon a strand of contemporary visual activity that has the power to significantly redefine our understandings of the production, analysis and deployment of evidence. Artists examined include Forensic Architecture, Simon Norfolk, Melanie Pullen, Angela Strassheim, John Gerrard, Julian Charrière, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras and Sophie Ristelhueber. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, literary studies, modern languages, photography and critical theory.

Photographic Possibilities

Author : Robert Hirsch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240803620
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Photographic Possibilities written by Robert Hirsch and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic Possibilities, Second Edition continues to provide a reliable source of techniques and ideas for the use of alternative and contemporary photographic processes that photographers have come to depend on. Professional photographers and advanced students seeking to increase their skills will discover modern and classic methods of creating and manipulating images. This practical guide integrates technical methods with the aesthetic outcome. It offers readers clear, step-by-step instructions on historic and on contemporary processes that integrate both the technical information and the aesthetic inspiration needed to create outstanding photographs. This new expanded edition concisely covers the most significant new products, processes, and issues that have effected the practice during the past decade. Two new chapters are exclusively devoted to digital photography, covering the history of digital imaging as well as the latest techniques and practices. Also included is an in-depth discussion on the copyright, which deals with the ethical and conceptual issues surrounding digital imaging that are rapidly changing the world of photography.

Photography Beyond Technique

Author : Tom Persinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781317818045
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Photography Beyond Technique written by Tom Persinger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photography is not dying and has not died. It has been an ever-changing medium since its earliest days, and while near-obsession with the technology of the day may have defined photography over the course of its existence, photography is so much more than hardware and software. Photography is communication, whether chemical or digital, tangible or ephemeral in form. Photography Beyond Technique is a compelling selection of essays and images that reveal the thoughts and methods of some of today's most exciting contemporary photographers. These artists employ alternative, historical, or handmade processes and techniques, and they share a comprehensive view of the medium: that the choice of photographic process is just as important as the selection of subjects. While other books concentrate solely on process, or theory, or artistic intent, none focus on photography in which these decisions are considered inseparable. These 20 essays, originally presented at the annual F295 symposium and seminar series, provide a thought-provoking read for anyone interested in photography as an art form and as a medium through which to view the world. Includes: - "Looking Backward, Seeing Forward: Reframing Visual History" by Robert Hirsch - "Mystery, Memory, and Narrative" by Martha Casanave - "Finding Confidence: Combining Process with Purpose" by Mark Osterman - "Photograph, Material, and Metaphor" by Jerry Spagnoli"--Provided by publisher.

Photographically Speaking

Author : David duChemin
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 0132733234
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Photographically Speaking written by David duChemin and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When looking at a photograph, too often a conversation starts–and, unfortunately, ends–with a statement such as, “I like it.” The logical next question, “Why?”, often goes unasked and unanswered. As photographers, we frequently have difficulty speaking about images because, frankly, we don’t know how to think about them. And if we don’t know how to think about a photograph and its “visual language”– how an image is constructed, how it works, and why it works–then, when we’re behind the camera, are we really making images that best communicate our vision, our original intent? Vision–crucial as it is–is not the ultimate goal of photography; expression is the goal. And to best express ourselves, it is necessary to learn and use the grammar and vocabulary of the visual language. Photographically Speaking is about learning photography’s visual language to better speak to why and how a photograph succeeds, and in turn to consciously use that visual language in the creation of our own photographs, making us stronger photographers who are able to fully express and communicate our vision. By breaking up the visual language into two main components–“elements” make up its vocabulary, and “decisions” are its grammar–David duChemin transforms what has traditionally been esoteric and difficult subject matter into an accessible and practical discussion that photographers can immediately use to improve their craft. Elements are the “words” of the image, what we place within the frame–lines, curves, light, color, contrast. Decisions are the choices we make in assembling those elements to best express and communicate our vision–the use of framing, perspective, point of view, balance, focus, exposure. All content within the frame has meaning, and duChemin establishes that photographers must consciously and deliberately choose the elements that go within their frame and make the decisions about how that frame is constructed and presented. In the second half of the book, duChemin applies this methodology to his own craft, as he explores the visual language in 20 of his own images, discussing how the intentional choices of elements and decisions that went into their creation contribute to their success.

The Persuasive Image, Art Kane

Author : John Poppy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780690007848
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Persuasive Image, Art Kane written by John Poppy and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Composition and Language Photographic

Author : Ernesto Martinez
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Composition and Language Photographic written by Ernesto Martinez and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing how to compose in photography is having more than halfway to becoming a good photographer. If you are interested, we are going to recapitulate the basic notions of photographic composition. Mastering composition is just as important as mastering lighting, or the parts and handling of your photographic equipment. It can make the difference between an ordinary photo and a great professional looking photo. In the following pages we will analyze various rules, tricks and tips to take the best photographs in terms of Composition. We will know the laws of perception, who are the Gestalt psychologists and what relationship they have with photography. We will study the law of figure and background, the law of proximity, the law of continuity, the law of closure, the law of similarity and the law of grouping, among others. All of them are rules of perception that help us understand why some photos are better than others and how the visual stimulus that the photographer captures in the image affects the viewer. We will explain in depth the basic laws of photographic composition: the law of the horizon, the law of the gaze and, of course, the famous rule of thirds. Nor will we forget the golden section, the Fibonacci sequence and its relationship with photographic composition. We will continue talking in detail about the elements that make up the design in an image, what they are, and how we can use them in our favor when composing a good photograph. Lines and points, shapes, textures and colors are all concepts that we will get to know in depth in this book and that will serve as a guide when taking out the camera and composing. Finally, we will review the types of framing, explaining what values the different ways of framing add to the image. We will review the photographic angle and the planes of the image and perspective, all of which are aspects to take into account in a good photographic composition. If you want to become a better photographer, get better photos, incredible photos, you don't need to wait for a better team. You can greatly improve your photography, climb a privileged level... by learning the laws and concepts of Composition and visual language . That is why we have created this new Book (ebook) " Photographic Composition and Language" From Good to Extraordinary Photos . It belongs to the Series: " Higher Training in Photography " where we address all matters related to this discipline, necessary for your training as a professional photographer. The series includes the following titles: 1. Black and White Art. 2. Color and Photography. 3. The Exposure . 4. Focus and Sharpness. 5. Photographic. Illumination. 6. Composition and Photographic Language. 7. The Digital Camera. 8. Photographic Lens. 9. Practical guide of Ligthroom. 10. Photoshop for Photographers CONTENTS: Visual Language in Photography. Elements and Basic Tools of Composition The Framing in Photography Location of Objects within the Frame Frame Types Orientation, Proportion and Reframing The Selective Approach Depth of Field. Freeze Motion in your Photography Movement rule. The Path of our Gaze. types of perspective Know how to look graphically The Rule of the Odd Visual Perception Gestalt Perception The Importance of the Optics Used Triangles in Photography: The 7 Types of Plane According to the Scale in Portrait Photography The Visual Weight in Photography Add Visual Weight to an Image How to Express Ourselves with Visual Weight Angle and Frame. Types of Angles Identify the Center of Interest Fill the Frame (Fil the frame) Work Flow and Direction Simplicity Horizon Law Balance and Symmetry The Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. The Rule of Thirds Forms and Figures Texture and Drawing

Langford's Basic Photography

Author : Michael Langford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136096698
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Langford's Basic Photography written by Michael Langford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langford's Basic Photography is a seminal photography text. First published in 1965, it has informed the work and career of many of the world's leading photographers. The new, 9th edition, continues the tradition of its predecessors, reflecting the same comprehensive mix of scholarly and practical information. It covers every aspect of photography, from capture through to output, both digital and analogue. There is an emphasis on explaining the 'how to' of photography, but Langford's Basic also includes in-depth coverage of the fundamental principles that govern the art, such as how light behaves, optics, and the shutter. This ensures that the reader comes away with not only a good grasp of photographic technique, but also an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals that will help them to better understand how great photography is made. As such, it functions both as an excellent coursebook for students of photography, and a great primer and reference for amateur enthusiasts. The new edition has been fully updated to reflect dynamic changes in the industry. These changes include: an expansion and overhaul of the information on digital cameras and digital printing; an emphasis on updating photographs to incude a wider range of international work; replacement of many diagrams with photos; overhaul of the analogue sections to give a more modern tone (ie exposure measurement and film and filters with some more dynamic photo illustrations); a fully edited and updated photography timeline. This landmark text is an essential purchase, both for new photographers as an introduction, and for established photographers as an invaluable reference work.

Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960

Author : Robert Hirsch
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317818350
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960 written by Robert Hirsch and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking survey of significant work and ideas focuses on imagemakers who have pushed beyond the boundaries of photography as a window on our material world. Through interviews with more than 40 key artists, this book explores a diverse group of curious experimentalists who have propelled the medium’s evolution by visualizing their subject matter as it originates from their mind’s eye. Many favor the historical techniques commonly known as alternative photographic processes, but all these makers demonstrate that the real alternative is found in their mental approach and not in their use of physical methods. Within this context, photographer and photography historian Robert Hirsch outlines the varied approaches these artists have utilized to question conventional photographic practices, to convey internal realities, and to examine what constitutes photographic reality. Hirsch explores the half-century evolution of these concepts and methodologies and their popularity among contemporary imagemakers who are merging digital and analog processes to express what was thought to be photographically inexpressible. Read an interview with the author at Photo.net: http://photo.net/learn/photographer-interviews/robert-hirsch

Beyond Memory

Author : Diane Neumaier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813534541
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Memory written by Diane Neumaier and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography possesses a powerful ability to bear witness, aid remembrance, shape, and even alter recollection. In Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art, the general editor, Diane Neumaier, and twenty-three contributors offer a rigorous examination of the medium's role in late Soviet unofficial art. Focusing on the period between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s, they explore artists' unusually inventive and resourceful uses of photography within a highly developed Soviet dissident culture. During this time, lack of high-quality photographic materials, complimented by tremendous creative impulses, prompted artists to explore experimental photo-processes such as camera and darkroom manipulations, photomontage, and hand-coloring. Photography also took on a provocative array of forms including photo installation, artist-made samizdat (self-published) books, photo-realist painting, and many other surprising applications of the flexible medium. Beyond Memory shows how innovative conceptual moves and approaches to form and content-echoes of Soviet society's coded communication and a Russian sense of absurdity-were common in the Soviet cultural underground. Collectively, the works in this anthology demonstrate how late-Soviet artists employed irony and invention to make positive use of difficult circumstances. In the process, the volume illuminates the multiple characters of photography itself and highlights the leading role that the medium has come to play in the international art world today. Beyond Memory stands on its own as a rigorous examination of photography's place in late Soviet unofficial art, while also serving as a supplement to the traveling exhibition of the same title.

Focus In Photography

Author : John Neel
Publisher : Ilex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781572382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Focus In Photography written by John Neel and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus is an important artistic tool, directing your viewers into and around your image, but a technical challenge too. In this book, the first serious treatent of the topic in the digital age, John Neel shows how a mastery of your lens will greatly enhance the quality and 'wow' factor of your photographs. Never losing sight of what real-life photographers need to know, Focus in Photography will let you master bokeh and other focus techniques, giving you a complete understanding of optics-and what actually happens to light within the camera in your hand. Richly illustrated with John's own amazing images, and drawing on his well-known authority in the field, it will be a valuable asset to students of photography, enthusiasts looking to refine their art, product photographers and commercial shooters alike.

Each Wild Idea

Author : Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262523240
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Each Wild Idea written by Geoffrey Batchen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on photography and the medium's history and evolving identity. In Each Wild Idea, Geoffrey Batchen explores a wide range of photographic subjects, from the timing of the medium's invention to the various implications of cyberculture. Along the way, he reflects on contemporary art photography, the role of the vernacular in photography's history, and the Australianness of Australian photography. The essays all focus on a consideration of specific photographs—from a humble combination of baby photos and bronzed booties to a masterwork by Alfred Stieglitz. Although Batchen views each photograph within the context of broader social and political forces, he also engages its own distinctive formal attributes. In short, he sees photography as something that is simultaneously material and cultural. In an effort to evoke the lived experience of history, he frequently relies on sheer description as the mode of analysis, insisting that we look right at—rather than beyond—the photograph being discussed. A constant theme throughout the book is the question of photography's past, present, and future identity.

Why it Does Not Have to be in Focus

Author : Jackie Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500290958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Why it Does Not Have to be in Focus written by Jackie Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter, Battersea Power Station, XI: July 13, 2004)? And why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston, Red Ceiling, 1973)? In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, Jackie Higgins offers a lively, informed defence of modern photography. Choosing 100 key photographs with particular emphasis on the last twenty years she examines what inspired each photographer in the first place, and traces how the piece was executed. In doing so, she brings to light the layers of meaning and artifice behind these singular works, some of which were initially dismissed out of hand for being blurred, overexposed or badly composed.

The CRITICAL image

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The CRITICAL image written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

Author : Sally Barnden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487939
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance written by Sally Barnden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Photographic Composition

Author : Albrecht Rissler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492016335
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Photographic Composition written by Albrecht Rissler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alternative Photographic Processes

Author : Brady Wilks
Publisher : Focal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781138808669
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Photographic Processes written by Brady Wilks and published by Focal Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative Photographic Processes teaches techniques, both analog & digital, allowing artists to bring a personal touch through manipulation of a photograph, the negative, and the print. This book stands apart from recent publications on alternative processes by presenting a range of new approaches and methods to achieve popular techniques, as well as providing step-by-step guidance for an array of unique techniques meant to inspire artists working in various mediums. Through detailed guidance, working artist examples, and info about the contemporary use of these processes, this book will provide instruction for students, educators, and artists to expand their creative toolbox.