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Reframing photography : theory and practice / Rebekah Modrak with Bill Anthes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: lii, 501 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 x 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415779200 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780415779203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 770.1 MOD
Contents:
Part 1. Vision : Theory 1. Seeing, perceiving, and mediating vision : Photography and the anatomy of sight ; Conventions of seeing ; Mediated vision: photography and optical devices ; The viewer as distant or enmeshed observer: the camera obscura ; The natural eye: direct experience and photography ; Nineteenth-century viewing devices and their optical legacy ; The camera as mechanical eye ; New views: experiments in space and time -- Practice 1. Vision: tools, materials, and processes : Exploring human vision ; The camera as viewer ; The camera as recorder -- Part 2. Light and shadow : Theory 2. : Light and shadow : The void ; Writing and light ; Light is radiation ; Qualities of light ; The symbolism of light and dark ; Modern light and shadow ; Reflection, shadow and the self ; Projected light ; Shadow plays -- Practice 2. Light and shadow: tools, materials, and processes : The source of light ; The path of light ; Light\'s terminal point -- Part 3. Reproductive processes : Theory 3. Copying, capturing, and reproducing : Possessing the subject: the photographic copy ; Mass media and reproduction ; Mass reproduction and artworks ; Reproduction and ethics ; Reenacting as a photographic art -- Practice 3. Reproductive processes: tools, materials, and processes : Low-tech positives and negatives ; Rubbings ; Infinite ways to generate images ; Recording images: film and digital sensors ; Digital sensors ; Filters ; Processing images: developing film ; Small tank film processing ; Black and white film processing ; Evaluating negatives ; Printing images: traditional processes ; Black and white photographic paper ; Black and white print processing ; The Photogram ; Printing a context sheet in the darkroom ; Non-silver and historic processes ; Screenprinting ; Processing digital images: digital workflow ; Adobe Bridge ; Adobe Lightroom ; Printing images: digital printing ; Color management ; Digital printing: printing black and white on a color printer ; The digital contact sheet ; Other printing options ; Reproducing photographs with other materials --
Part 4. Editing, presentation, and evaluation : Theory 4a. Series and sequence : Pictures at an exhibition ; Typology ; The body in the archive ; Images in sequence ; The passing of time ; Documenting artistic process ; Photobooks ; Slide shows ; Motion ; Sculpting with time -- Theory 4b. Text and image : Is a picture worth a thousand words? ; Telling a story: the documentary tradition ; Selling the story: picture magazines and the photo essay ; Personal stories ; Questioning the story ; Instructions ; Speech ; Pictures of words: a forest of signs ; Word as image ; Photomontage -- Practice 4. Editing, presentation, and evaluation: tools, materials, and processes : Editing: resizing digital images ; Digital tools: Adobe Photoshop tools panel ; Contrast and tone ; Adjusting image contrast in the darkroom ; Digital tonal adjustments ; Levels and curves ; Adjusting brightness locally: burning and dodging ; Color ; Digital color casts ; Digital color corrections ; Color conversions: toning and handcoloring print effects ; Print retouching techniques ; Digital photographic retouching ; Photo-based collage ; Culture jamming and collage ; Content and form ; Image appropriation and copyright concerns ; Handmade collage ; Digital collage ; Using text with photographs ; Handmade and alternative typesetting ; Creating text in the darkroom ; Integrating text and images digitally ; Special techniques for working digitally with type and images ; Presentation ; Mounting, matting, and framing ; Constructing a light box ; Photography on the internet ; Animating photographs ; Evaluation -- Glossary.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 770.1 MOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100397539

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

To fully understand photography, it is essential to study both the theoretical and the technical.

In an accessible yet complex way, Rebekah Modrak and Bill Anthes explore photographic theory, history and technique to bring photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic practice. Reframing Photography is a broad and inclusive rethinking of photography that will inspire students to think about the medium across time periods, across traditional themes, and through varied materials. Intended for both beginners and advanced students, and for art and non-art majors, and practicing artists, Reframing Photography compellingly represents four concerns common to all photographic practice:

vision light/shadow reproductive processes editing/ presentation/ evaluation.

Each part includes an extensive and thoughtful essay, providing a broad cultural context for each topic, alongside discussion of photographic examples. Essays introduce the work of artists who use a diverse range of subject matter and a variety of processes (straight photography, social documentary, digital, mixed media, conceptual work, etc.), examine artists' conceptual and technical choices, describe cultural implications and artistic influences, and analyze how these concerns interrelate. Following each essay, each part continues with a "how-to" section that describes a fascinating range of related photographic equipment, materials and methods through concise explanations and clear diagrams.

Key Features:

case studies featuring profiles of contemporary and historical artists glossary definitions of critical and technical vocabulary to aid learning 'how to' sections provide students with illustrated, step by step guides to different photographic methods, alongside related theory fully up-to-date, with both high and low tech suggestions for activities online resources at: www.routledge.com/textbooks/reframingphotography will update information on equipment and provide further activities, information and links to related sites lavishly illustrated, with over 750 images, including artists' work and examples of photographic processes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Vision : Theory 1. Seeing, perceiving, and mediating vision : Photography and the anatomy of sight ; Conventions of seeing ; Mediated vision: photography and optical devices ; The viewer as distant or enmeshed observer: the camera obscura ; The natural eye: direct experience and photography ; Nineteenth-century viewing devices and their optical legacy ; The camera as mechanical eye ; New views: experiments in space and time -- Practice 1. Vision: tools, materials, and processes : Exploring human vision ; The camera as viewer ; The camera as recorder -- Part 2. Light and shadow : Theory 2. : Light and shadow : The void ; Writing and light ; Light is radiation ; Qualities of light ; The symbolism of light and dark ; Modern light and shadow ; Reflection, shadow and the self ; Projected light ; Shadow plays -- Practice 2. Light and shadow: tools, materials, and processes : The source of light ; The path of light ; Light\'s terminal point -- Part 3. Reproductive processes : Theory 3. Copying, capturing, and reproducing : Possessing the subject: the photographic copy ; Mass media and reproduction ; Mass reproduction and artworks ; Reproduction and ethics ; Reenacting as a photographic art -- Practice 3. Reproductive processes: tools, materials, and processes : Low-tech positives and negatives ; Rubbings ; Infinite ways to generate images ; Recording images: film and digital sensors ; Digital sensors ; Filters ; Processing images: developing film ; Small tank film processing ; Black and white film processing ; Evaluating negatives ; Printing images: traditional processes ; Black and white photographic paper ; Black and white print processing ; The Photogram ; Printing a context sheet in the darkroom ; Non-silver and historic processes ; Screenprinting ; Processing digital images: digital workflow ; Adobe Bridge ; Adobe Lightroom ; Printing images: digital printing ; Color management ; Digital printing: printing black and white on a color printer ; The digital contact sheet ; Other printing options ; Reproducing photographs with other materials --

Part 4. Editing, presentation, and evaluation : Theory 4a. Series and sequence : Pictures at an exhibition ; Typology ; The body in the archive ; Images in sequence ; The passing of time ; Documenting artistic process ; Photobooks ; Slide shows ; Motion ; Sculpting with time -- Theory 4b. Text and image : Is a picture worth a thousand words? ; Telling a story: the documentary tradition ; Selling the story: picture magazines and the photo essay ; Personal stories ; Questioning the story ; Instructions ; Speech ; Pictures of words: a forest of signs ; Word as image ; Photomontage -- Practice 4. Editing, presentation, and evaluation: tools, materials, and processes : Editing: resizing digital images ; Digital tools: Adobe Photoshop tools panel ; Contrast and tone ; Adjusting image contrast in the darkroom ; Digital tonal adjustments ; Levels and curves ; Adjusting brightness locally: burning and dodging ; Color ; Digital color casts ; Digital color corrections ; Color conversions: toning and handcoloring print effects ; Print retouching techniques ; Digital photographic retouching ; Photo-based collage ; Culture jamming and collage ; Content and form ; Image appropriation and copyright concerns ; Handmade collage ; Digital collage ; Using text with photographs ; Handmade and alternative typesetting ; Creating text in the darkroom ; Integrating text and images digitally ; Special techniques for working digitally with type and images ; Presentation ; Mounting, matting, and framing ; Constructing a light box ; Photography on the internet ; Animating photographs ; Evaluation -- Glossary.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Selected Contents:
  • Part 1 Vision
  • Essay: Vision: The Eye, Perception and Conventions of Sight
  • Essay: Mediated Vision: Photography & Optical Devices
  • Tools, Materials & Processes: Vision
  • Part 2 Light and Shadow
  • Essay: Light and Shadow
  • Tools, Materials & Processes: Light and Shadow
  • Part 3 Copying, Capturing and Reproducing
  • Essay: Copying, Capturing & Reproducing
  • Tools, Materials & Processes: Reproductive Processes
  • Part 4 Editing, Presentation and Evaluation
  • Essay: Series and Sequence
  • Essay: Word and Image
  • Tools, Materials & Processes: Editing, Presentation and Evaluation

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rebekah Modrak is a studio artist whose work has been shown at The Sculpture Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Kenyon College. She is Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan where she teaches courses involving photography, animation, mixed media, and photographic history.

Bill Anthes is Associate Professor of Art History at Pitzer College. He has received awards from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant Program.

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