Photography: The Essential Way - Softcover

London, Barbara; Stone, Jim; Upton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136142761 ISBN 13: 9780136142768

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

Synopsis

Photography: The Essential Way is a departure from tradition that moves boldly into the digital age with you.  This new book embraces the new photography that is captured, shaped, transmitted, printed, and saved electronically, while retaining coverage of film and its exposure and development.

 

About this title

About the Author

Jim Stone is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. His photographs have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. Books of his work include Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993),Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005).

He has also published six higher education titles that are widely used in university courses: A User¹s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, and A Short Course in Digital Photography.

Barbara London has authored and co-authored many photography books from their first editions to their current ones, including Photography, Photography: The Essential Way, A Short Course in Photography, A Short Course in Digital Photography, The Photograph Collector's Guide, and more.

John Upton, Professor Emeritus, was for many years Chair of Photography at Orange Coast College, one of the largest photography departments in the U.S. He has curated a number of exhibitions, including Color as Form: A History of Color Photography. His work is included in many private and public collections, including the New York Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

Synopsis

Photography: The Essential Way is a departure from tradition that moves boldly into the digital age with you. This new book embraces the new photography that is captured, shaped, transmitted, printed, and saved electronically, while retaining coverage of film and its exposure and development. Based on the #1 selling introductory photography textbook, Photography, by London, Stone, and Upton, this new title offers photography instructors another option to choose from in selecting a text. Photography: The Essential Way offers: A * comprehensive coverage of essential topics such as digital and film cameras, lenses, exposure, sensors and film, and developing black-and-white film. A * comprehensive coverage of the latest in digital photography, including four chapters dedicated to digital technique, and digital topics that are integrated throughout the book. A * a shorter length than Photography. This book excludes coverage of darkroom printing, the zone system, and has more concise coverage of silver print display.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0136142761
• ISBN 13: 9780136142768
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368