The book brings photographic education up to date with contemporary art practice. Essays link photographic conventions with a history of ideas, involving such topics as architecture, literature, psychology, and genetics, and introduce related artists and artworks. How-to sections describe an extensive range of processes, such as viewing devices (including multiple types of cameras, scanners, and the human eye), lighting methods, low-tech ways to reproduce images, film and digital processing, digital, darkroom and manual editing and printing, book arts, pre-cinematic animation techniques, web arts, collage, light box construction, web portfolios, internet art, and more.
Consult this website to view contemporary artists talk about their practice (the In Their Own Words series in our Artists’ Gallery), to view step-by-step video tutorials, to read about additional photographic processes, to locate artists’ works, resources, readings, and opportunities through our Resources of over a thousand web links, and (if you are an instructor) to discover class projects related to book topics or recommended by educators.
