- Subjects
- Published
-
Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Focal Press
c2008.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
-
Robert Hirsch
(-)
- Physical Description
- xvii, 397 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 20 x 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780240808550
- Preface
- 1. Why We Make Pictures: A Concise History of Visual Ideas
- 2. Design: Visual Foundations
- 3. Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners
- 4. Exposure and Filters
- 5. Seeing with Light
- 6. Observation: Eyes Wide Open
- 7. Time, Space, Imagination and the Camera
- 8. Digital Studio: Where the Virtual Meets the Material World
- 9. Presentation and Preservation
- 10. Seeing with a Camera
- 11. Solutions: Thinking and Writing About Images
- 12. Photographer on Assignment
- Addendum I. Safety
- Addendum II. Careers