Book Outline

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Part 1: Vision

THEORY 1: Seeing, Perceiving, and Mediating Vision
REBEKAH MODRAK

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
REBEKAH MODRAK

Exploring human vision
The camera as viewer
The camera as recorder

Part 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW

THEORY 2: Light and Shadow
BILL ANTHES

Introduction
The void
Writing with 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
REBEKAH MODRAK

The source of light
The path of light
Light's terminal point

Part 3: REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES

THEORY 3: Copying, Capturing, and Recording
REBEKAH MODRAK

Possessing the subject: The photographic copy
Mass media and reproduction
Mass reproduction and artworks
Reproduction and ethics
Reenacting as a photographic act

PRACTICE 3: Reproductive Processes: Tools, Materials, and Processes
REBEKAH MODRAK

Low-tech positives and negatives
Recording images: Film and digital sensors
Processing images: Developing film
Printing images: Traditional processes
Processing digital images: Digital workflow
Printing images: Digital Printing
Other printing options

Part 4: editing, presentation, and evaluation

THEORY 4a: Series and Sequence
BILL ANTHES

Introduction
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
BILL ANTHES

Introduction
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
REBEKAH MODRAK

EDITING

Digital resizing
Digital tools
Contrast and tone
Color
Print retouching techniques
Photo-based collage
Using text with phtoographs

PRESENTATION

The book
Mounting, matting, and framing
Constructing a light box
Photography on the Internet
Animating Photographs

EVALUATION

Critique Strategies