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Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Hirsch
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 41054
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 024080855X
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780240808550
ASIN: 024080855X
Publication Date: September 14, 2007
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Product Description
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.
Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today's digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world.
Explore the history, theory and methods of digital image-making. Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. You'll view, capture and think about images from a new perspective.
Increase your ability to analyze, discuss and write about your own work and the images of others.
Learn with exercises and assignments by leading digital educators. Innovative techniques will train your eye to make the strongest visual statement.
Solve visual problems and overcome image challenges. Whether you use a digital SLR or a point-and-shoot camera, you'll get new strategies to master composition, design and light.
View the full range of the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists.
Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo, New York, and on the Visual Studies faculty of University of Buffalo/The State University of New York.
*Applies technology in the service of ideas
*Emphasizes conceptual problem solving in photography today
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Light & Lens May 7, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for any photographer, but especially for digital photographers. You will loose you photographic inhibition the deeper you get into the books chapters. It is exciting to know there are new discoveries in style and technique to be made in digital photography. All you have to do is pick up your camera and start making images.
First time not at all satisfied February 15, 2008
2 out of 27 found this review helpful
We paid for speedier shipping- it took 8 days to receive
The bottom of the box was open. I'm surprised the book stayed in.
 Pretty Good. February 11, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I got this book for class, I already knew most the stuff in it. But it listed a lot of good information, as well as technical info. I recommend it, for anyone interested in digital photography.
Hirsch blurs line between textbook and art book September 16, 2007
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
As a photographer and college photography educator, I'm extremely excited about Robert Hirsch's new book Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. We have adopted it in our photography department at Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico. I consider this an unusual textbook; even a pioneer book because of how it blurs the line between textbook and art book.
It is an ambitious work in that it presents an immense amount of complex technical information very clearly and succinctly without leaving anything out, weaves historical information throughout, challenges students (everyone!) to "think critically" about the photograph and their own work at every turn, coaches, encourages, and it is ALSO beautifully designed - giving each artwork featured a real presence that inspires students. It is obvious Hirsch is a generous educator, active photographer, and thinker.
The layout is elegant - really elegant (it even has a dust jacket!) so students and photography enthusiasts are buying an "art book" that has value beyond its wealth as a textbook.
The scale of the book is about 7X17" opened with about 400 pages but looks small and is lightweight which I think was smart for a `heavyweight' subject. It can be held comfortably in the hand for good contemplative reading or placed easily on a small digital work station where it can be used as a technical reference or reference for the many innovative assignments included.
It was obviously designed for those who love photography and want to see (or have their student's see) a bigger "picture" about image making in the digital age. It is for the instructor who sees students intimidated by the larger digital texts that are completely techie-oriented and don't usually address the important issues of personal process, critical theory, and the content and context of imagery. Here is a wonderful marriage of the craft and content of making photographs in the digital age and the book's physicality exemplifes that too.
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