Reframing photography: theory and practice

Abstract

To fully understand photography, it is essential to study both the theoretical and the technical. This book combines theory and practice in one text, exploring photographic ideas alongside processes.

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.