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Chrysotype is about photographic printing in gold on paper. This
19th century printing process, modified for contemporary use,
provides artists with an affordable way to produce permanent prints
in gold. By using film or digital negatives, striking hand-coated
prints can be created in monochromatic hues ranging from pink,
violet, magenta and purple, to green, blue, grey and black.
Chrysotype offers a how-to guide for intermediate practitioners
with illustrated examples and simple explanations for each stage of
the chrysotype process. The book is divided into three sections:
history; preparation and how-to; and the work of contemporary
artists using chrysotype. This book includes: A concise account of
the invention and modification of the chrysotype process, including
early discoveries about gold and colour and the significance of
moisture for printing in gold How to set up your workspace for
printing, including useful equipment and materials Advice on safe
chemical practice A step-by-step guide to creating suitable digital
and film negatives Guidance on paper selection and how to
successfully coat paper An overview guide to creating a chrysotype
print Step-by step directions for creating the chrysotype solutions
An explanation of mixing ratios and solution volumes that control
contrast An illustrated explanation of the effect of humidity on
colour, including split tone colours and ways to control humidity
Step-by-step directions on post-exposure hydration to lengthen
tonal range and lower contrast Step-by-step tray processing
directions Advanced techniques such as handling translucent papers,
additional chrysotype formulas and procedures, and alternative
developing agents that support longer development, colour formation
and remedy problems that affect image quality Troubleshooting
chrysotype printing, including advice and photographic examples
Illustrated profiles of contemporary artists making chrysotype
prints, including their methods and tips Chrysotype serves to
inform, encourage and challenge a new generation of alternate
process practitioners and a growing chrysotype community, from the
newly curious to the experienced professional.
Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key
debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and
political contexts. Written especially for students in further and
higher education and for introductory college courses, it provides
a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing.
Individual chapters cover: * Key debates in photographic theory and
history * Documentary photography and photojournalism * Personal
and popular photography * Photography and the human body *
Photography and commodity culture * Photography as art. This
revised and updated edition includes new case studies on topics
such as: Black Lives Matter and the racialised body; the #MeToo
movement; materialism and embodiment; nation branding; and an
extended critical discussion of landscape as genre. Illustrated
with over 100 colour and black and white photographs, it features
work from Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Fran
Herbello, Hannah Hoech, Mari Katayama, Sant Khalsa, Karen Knorr,
Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas, Lee Miller, Ingrid Pollard, Jacob
Riis, Alexander Rodchenko, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman and Jeff
Wall. A fully updated resource information, including guides to
public archives and useful websites, full glossary of terms and a
comprehensive bibliography, plus additional resources at
routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780367222758/ make this an ideal
introduction to the field.
These photographs are perhaps little wake-up calls, solar beams
rousing us into a greater wakefulness and seeing the world in a
totally fresh perspective. This book has won the 2009 Nautilus Gold
Award under the Art/Specialty/Gift category. It is also the
Award-Winning Finalist in the General Photography category of the
National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.
Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography and Mobility
examines contemporary literature written by women that are all
related to Italy in different ways. It argues that photography
provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self
and of others' mobile lives within and beyond the writing process.
By resorting to the visual, women individualistically respond to
forms of hegemonic power, fragmentation, displacement, loss and
marginality and make these experiences key to their creative
production.
This book delivers an in-depth analysis of Hercule Florence, who is
virtually unknown despite being among the world's photographic
pioneers. Based on the texts of various manuscripts, letters,
diaries, notes, and advertisements, this book answers numerous
questions surrounding Florence's work, including the materials,
methods, and techniques he employed and why it took more than a
century for his discovery to come to light. Kossoy's groundbreaking
research establishes Florence's use of "photographie" to describe
the product of his experiments, half a decade before Sir John
Herschel recommended "photography" to Henry Fox Talbot. This book
aims to change the fact that despite its cultural and historical
importance, Florence's photographic breakthrough remains largely
unknown in the English-speaking world.
Situations of conflict offer special insights into the history of
the interpreter figure, and specifically the part played in that
history by photographic representations of interpreters. This book
analyses photo postcards, snapshots and press photos from several
historical periods of conflict, associated with different
photographic technologies and habits of image consumption: the
colonial period, the First and Second World War, and the Cold War.
The book's methodological approach to the "framing" of the
interpreter uses tools taken primarily from visual anthropology,
sociology and visual syntax to analyse the imagery of the modern
era of interpreting. By means of these interpretative frames, the
contributions suggest that each culture, subculture or social group
constructed its own representation of the interpreter figure
through photography. The volume breaks new ground for image-based
research in translation studies by examining photographic
representations that reveal the interpreter as a socially
constructed category. It locates the interpreter's mediating
efforts at the core of the human sciences. This book will be of
interest to researchers and advanced students in translation and
interpreting studies, as well as to those working in visual
studies, photography, anthropology and military/conflict studies.
Surfing the Cosmos is an original book of photographs and text that
visually explores the high/low of energy in the slums of Rio de
Janeiro as compared with the high-tech physics of CERN, where
discovering the origins of the universe and the elementary
particles from which it is made are examined. Within this visual
story are the unplanned beautiful drawings that humans make in
space with electrical wires, whether from the favela or CERN. These
"drawings" inspired a series of artworks/photographs that are
pictured in this book, often along with their photographic source
or the spirit of the community from which they are derived (either
favela or CERN). The human energy of the favela is also mirrored in
CERN with one specific comparison of the graffiti from Rio and the
chalkboards of CERN, both viewed as works of art and sources that
motivated the author's response as demonstrated in his previous
works through examples including paintings, fashion scarves,
handmade rugs from Nepal, bamboo cotton face masks along with
surfboards (chalkboards) and skatedecks.
The neon, pastels, bows, and vibrant prints of Tokyo's fashion
tribes are unmistakable, outrageous, and fun. Recognized around the
world, with huge online followings, the city's style icons are
photographed here against white backgrounds, revealing a new
dimen-sion of personality and emotion in these remarkable
individuals. Portraits include fashion icon Kumamiki--the vision
behind the Party Baby movement and clothing brand--who has a
growing global online following.
The Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a
seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of
photography. Comprising an impressive range of essays written by
experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines the
medium's history, its central issues and emerging trends, and its
much-discussed future. The essays explore the current debates
surrounding the photograph as object, art, document, propaganda,
truth, selling tool, and universal language; the perception of
photography archives as burdens, rather than treasures; the
continual technological development reshaping the field;
photography as a tool of representation and control, and more, in
this time of unprecedented image consumerism.
Grounded in real-life experiences and scenarios, this practical
guide offers editorial, non-profit, foundation, and corporate
photographers an honest and insightful approach to running a
freelance photography business. Pulling from thirty years of
experience as a freelance photographer, veteran Todd Bigelow
presents a timely and detailed account of the methods and tactics
best used to navigate and succeed in the profession. He explores
the topics that define the business of freelancing, including:
analyzing photography contracts; creating and maintaining an image
archive; licensing for revenue; client development; registering for
copyright; combating copyright infringement; and understanding tax
issues, freelance business structures, and more. Chapters feature
examples of real contract clauses and emails to better prepare
readers for the practical daily activities that are essential to
growing a success business. Likewise, Bigelow shares conversational
anecdotes throughout to provide real insight into the world of
freelancing. Based on the author's sought-after Business of
Photography Workshop, this book is an essential guide for emerging,
mid-career, and experienced photographers interested in starting or
improving their own freelance business.
In the late 1970s, the George Eastman House approached a group of
photographers to ask for their favorite recipes and food-related
photographs to go with them, in pursuit of publishing a cookbook.
Playing off George Eastman's own famous recipe for lemon meringue
pie, as well as former director Beaumont Newhall's love of food,
the cookbook grew from the idea that photographers' talent in the
darkroom must also translate into special skills in the kitchen.
The recipes do not disappoint, with Robert Adams's Big Sugar
Cookies, Ansel Adams's Poached Eggs in Beer, Richard Avedon's Royal
Pot Roast, Imogen Cunningham's Borscht, William Eggleston's Cheese
Grits Casserole, Stephen Shore's Key Lime Pie Supreme, and Ed
Ruscha's Cactus Omelet, to name a few. The book was never
published, and the materials have remained in George Eastman
House's collection ever since. Now, forty years later, this
extensive and distinctive archive of untouched recipes and
photographs are published in The Photographer's Cookbook for the
first time. The book provides a time capsule of contemporary
photographers of the 1970s-many before they made a name for
themselves-as well as a fascinating look at how they depicted food,
family, and home, taking readers behind the camera and into the
hearts, and stomachs of some of photography's most important
practitioners.
This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between
the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the
temporal episteme of selfie practice. Claire Raymond investigates
how the selfie's involvement with time and self emerges from
capitalist ideologies of identity and time. The book leverages
theories from Katharina Pistor, Jacques Lacan, Roegnvaldur
Ingthorsson, and Hans Belting to explore the ways in which the
selfie imposes a dominant ideology on subjectivity by manipulating
the affect of time. The selfie is understood in contrast to the
self-portrait. Artists discussed include James Tylor, Shelley Niro,
Ellen Carey, Graham MacIndoe, and LaToya Ruby Frazier. The book
will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture, history
of photography, and critical theory. It will also appeal to
scholars of philosophy and, in particular, of the intersection of
aesthetic theory and theories of ontology, epistemology, and
temporality.
Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily
Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers,
and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of
femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence
in American women's literature and photography from the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dickinson's poetry is read
through its relationship to the Southern Agrarian critics who
championed her work. While the representations of violence found in
Carrie Mae Weems's installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I
Cried, Morrison's Beloved, Dickinson's poetry, O'Connor's 'A View
of the Woods' and 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find,' Allison's Bastard
Out of Carolina, McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe, and Hurston's
Mules and Men are diverse in terms of artistic presentation, all
allude to or are set in the antebellum and Jim Crow South. In
addition, all involve feminine characters whose subjectivity is
shaped by the practice of seeing acts of violence inflicted where
there can be no effective resistance. While not proposing an
equivalence between representing violence in visual images and
written text, Raymond does suggest that visual images of violence
can be interpreted in context with written evocations of violent
imagery. Invoking sadism in its ethical sense of violence enacted
on a victim for whom self-defense and recourse of any kind are
impossible, Raymond's study is ultimately an exploration of the
idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of feminine
characters as witnesses to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly
of the American South that is linked to the culture's history of
racism.
Since the first atomic bomb was dropped, humankind has been haunted
by the idea of nuclear apocalypse. That nightmare almost became
reality in 1986, when an accident at the USSR's Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant triggered the world's worst radiological crisis. The
events of that night are well documented - but history didn't stop
there. Chernobyl, as a place, remains very much alive today. In
Chernobyl: A Stalkers' Guide, researcher Darmon Richter journeys
into the contemporary Exclusion Zone, venturing deeper than any
previously published account. While thousands of foreign visitors
congregate around a handful of curated sites, beyond the tourist
hotspots lies a wild and mysterious land the size of a small
country. In the forests of Chernobyl, historic village settlements
and Soviet-era utopianism have lain abandoned since the time of the
disaster - overshadowed by vast, unearthly mega-structures designed
to win the Cold War. Richter combines photographs of discoveries
made during his numerous visits to the Zone with the voices of
those who witnessed history - engineers, scientists, police and
evacuees. He explores evacuated regions in both Ukraine and
Belarus, finding forgotten ghost towns and Soviet monuments lost
deep in irradiated forests. He gains exclusive access inside the
most secure areas of the power plant itself, and joins the
'stalkers' of Chernobyl as he sets out on a high-stakes illegal
hike to the heart of the Exclusion Zone.
Photographers and publishers of photographs enjoy a wide range of
legal rights including freedom of expression and of publication.
They have a right to create and publish photographs. They may
invoke their intellectual, moral and property rights to protect and
enforce their rights in their created and/or published works. These
rights are not absolute. This book analyses the various legal
restrictions and prohibitions, which may affect these rights.
Photography and the Law investigates the legal limitations faced by
professional and amateur photographers and photograph publishers
under Irish, UK and EU Law. Through an in-depth discussion of the
personal rights of the public, including the right not to be
harassed, the book gives a clear analysis of the current legal
standpoint on the relationship between privacy and freedom of
expression. Additionally, the book looks at the reconciliation of
photographers' rights with the state's interest in public security
and defence, alongside the enforcement of ethical and moral codes.
Comparative legal standing in the European Union is used as a
springboard to further analyse Irish and UK statutes and case law,
including recent reforms and current proposals for future change.
The book ends with pertinent suggestions of the necessary reforms
and enactments required to rebalance the relationship between the
personal rights of individuals, the state's duties and the
protection of photographers' and photograph publishers' rights. By
clearly explaining the theoretical and conceptual reasoning behind
the current law, alongside proposed reforms, the book will be a
useful tool for any student or academic interested in photography
law, privacy and media law, alongside professional and amateur
photographers and photograph publishers.
Though primarily known for his haunting, enigmatic novel Pedro
Paramo and the unrelenting depictions of the failures of
post-revolutionary Mexico in his short story collection, El Llano
en llamas, Juan Rulfo also worked as scriptwriter on various
collaborative film projects and his powerful interventions in the
area of documentary photography ensure that he continues to inspire
interest worldwide. Bringing together some of the most significant
names in Rulfian scholarship, this anthology engages with the
complexity and diversity of Rulfo's cultural production. The essays
in the collection bring the Rulfian texts into dialogues with other
cultural traditions and techniques including the Japanese Noh or
"mask" plays and modernist experimentation in the Irish language.
They also deploy diverse theoretical frameworks that range from
Roland Barthes' work on studium and punctum in photography to Henri
Lefebvre's ideas on space and spatiality and the postmodern
insights of Jean Baudrillard on the nature of the simulacrum and
the hyperreal. In this way, innovative approaches are brought to
bear on the Rulfian texts as a way of illuminating the rich
tensions and anxieties they evoke about Mexico, about history,
about art and about the human condition.
However beautiful or technically dazzling your photographs might
be, if they don't tell a story, convey an idea or make your viewer
stop and think, they are unlikely to make a lasting
impression.Context and Narrative in Photography introduces
practical methods to help you plan, develop and present meaningful,
communicative images. With dozens of examples from some of the
world's most thought-provoking photographers, this is a beautiful
introduction to a fascinating aspect of photography.Beginning with
an exploration of different narrative techniques, you'll be guided
through selecting and developing a compelling concept for your
project and how it might be conveyed either through a single image
or a series of photographs. You'll also learn ways to incorporate
signs, symbols and text into your work and how to present the
finished piece to best reach your audience.New to this edition are
extended projects, additional exercises and discussion questions,
expanded case studies, around 25% of the images and an expanded
Chapter 6 on integrating text into photographic projects.
Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented
transformation as it adapts to the impact of digital technology,
social media and new distribution methods. In this book,
photographer and educator Michelle Bogre contextualizes these
changes by offering a historical, theoretical and practical
perspective on documentary photography from its inception to the
present day. Documentary Photography Reconsidered is structured
around key concepts, such as the photograph as witness, as
evidence, as memory, as narrative and as a vehicle for activism and
social change. Chapters include in-depth interviews with some of
the world's leading contemporary practitioners, demonstrating the
wide variety of different working styles, techniques and topics
available to new photographers entering the field. Every key
concept is illustrated with work from a range of innovative,
influential and often under-represented photographers, giving a
flavor of the depth and range of projects from the history of this
global art form. There are also creative projects designed to spark
ideas and build skills, to help you conceive, develop and produce
your own meaningful documentary projects. The book is supported by
a companion website, which includes in-depth video interviews with
featured practitioners.
Running a Successful Photography Business is the definitive
business bible for every professional photographer - a one-stop
resource covering everything you need to know to make your business
a success. This handy book contains guidance on the key areas of
running your business: fine-tuning your brand, attracting new
clients and keeping existing ones, costing and producing shoots,
professional ethics and codes of practice, contracts, preparing a
business plan, operating your business effectively, legal
obligations, working with agents and agencies and how to evolve and
prosper in this ever changing industry. Everything a working
photographer needs to know in order for their business to
flourish.Written from the unique point of view of a leading
photographers' agent, the author knows from first-hand experience
what it takes to survive and succeed as a professional
photographer. This book builds on the author's popular first book,
Setting up a Successful Photography Business, aimed at those
starting out in freelance photography.
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Achieve the Best Camera Design: Up-to-Date Information on MCMs
Miniature camera modules (MCMs), such as webcams, have rapidly
become ubiquitous in our day-to-day devices, from mobile phones to
interactive TV systems. MCMs-or "smart" cameras-can zoom, adjust
their frame rate automatically with illumination change, focus at
different distances, compensate for hand shake, and transform
captured images. With contributions from academics and field
engineers, Smart Mini-Cameras discusses the structure, operation
principles, applications, and future trends of miniature mobile
cameras. It compares this technology with traditional digital still
cameras and explains the specific requirements of MCM components
(imposed by the size or type of application) in terms of optical
design, image sensor, and functionalities. The book describes the
implementation of several active functionalities, including liquid
crystal auto focus (AF) and optical image stabilization (OIS). It
also explores how new technologies, such as the curved detector and
transforming optics, are stimulating novel trends, including a
miniature panoramic lens on mobile phones. By providing you with an
understanding of the components and performance tradeoffs of MCMs,
this book will help you achieve the best camera design. It also
answers frequently asked questions, such as the importance of the
number of megapixels in a mobile phone camera and the value of AF
and OIS features.
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