Photographic possibilities: the expressive use of equipment, ideas, materials, and processes

Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition is a marvelously updated resource of innovative and traditional photographic processes that imagemakers have cometo trust and depend on to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness. This concise and reliable handbook provides professional and advanced photography students with practicalpathways of utilizing diverse photographic methods to produce engaging, expressive pictures from an informed aesthetic and conceptual position. This update, in full color for this first time, offers new links between analog and digital photography by featuring clear, up-to-date, step-by-step instructions on topics ranging from making ambrotypes and digital negatives to pre-picturemakingactivities that utilize a thinking system to visually realize what is in yourmind's eye in an effective and safe manner.This edition vividly showcases thethought-provoking work of over 140 international artists including Peter Beard, Dan Burkholder, Carl Chiarenza, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. Lê, Joe Mills, Andrea Modica, Bea Nettles, France Scully and Mark Osterman, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Holly Roberts, Martha Rosler, Mike and Doug Starn, John Sexton, Brian Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, and Joel Peter Witkin as well as other major and emerging talents. Image captions explain how each artist technically realized theirvision and concept.All technical information and resources have been refreshed to provide the latest data for acquiring the products needed for these processes. Above all, this comprehensive reference provides field-proven know-how, encouragement, inspiration, and a profuse compendium of promising photo-based explorations one can discover and pursue. INDICE: Chapter 1: Essential Moments in Photographic Printmaking Chapter 2: Predarkroom Actions: Imaginative Thinking and Personal Safety Chapter 3: Image Capture: Special-Use Films, Processing and Digital Negative Making Chapter 4: Formulas of One's Own Chapter 5: Black-and-White Film Developers Chapter 6:Analog Fine Printmaking: Equipment, Materials, and Processes Chapter 7: Black-and-White Paper Developers Chapter 8: Toning for Visual Effects Chapter 9: Special Cameras and Equipment Chapter 10: Historic and Alternative Processes: Beauty, Imagination and Inventiveness Chapter 11: Transforming Photographic Concepts: Expanding the Lexicon

• ISBN: 978-0-240-81013-3
• Editorial: Focal Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 284
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés