Photography, 13th edition
- Barbara London |
- Jim Stone |
Title overview
For courses in Photography.
A comprehensive, up-to-date resource for today's photography students
Photography provides thorough yet practical coverage of both the traditional practice of photography and the now-dominant digital techniques. Authors Jim Stone and Barbara London help students understand the fundamental photographic processes, as well as how different photographers employ them for their own creative purposes.
The 13th Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest in the field. The text offers fully up-to-date coverage of digital photography, the latest information on health and safety, and more than 3 dozen new photographs.
Hallmark features of this title
- Integrated coverage of digital and chemical camera techniques throughout the text meets the needs of students using an all-digital, all-chemical or mixed workflow.
- A fully illustrated troubleshooting section covers film processing, darkroom printing and digital photography. This section explains technical problems and outlines ways to prevent them.
- Demonstration photographs by fine art and professional photographers integrated throughout the text make concepts easy to understand.
- An easy-to-use format presents a single idea, skill or technique on every 2 facing pages.
- Boldfaced topic sentences on every page lead students through the material.
- Workflow routines are presented step by step so as to be easy to understand.
New and updated features of this title
- UPDATED: Chapters 8 to 11, dedicated to digital technique, have been thoroughly updated to reflect the current state of digital photography.
- UPDATED: More than 3 dozen new photographs illustrate technical concepts and help students develop visual awareness. The 13th Edition includes new photos by Liz Cohen, Lois Conner, La Toya Ruby Frazier, Ann Hamilton, Yunghi Kim, Gillian Laub, Andrea Modica, Zanele Muholi, Steven B. Smith and Kehinde Wiley.
- UPDATED: The text's coverage of health and safety reflects the latest standards in the field.
- UPDATED: Photographer at Work pages throughout the text feature interviews with successful photographers. Subjects include an internationally exhibited artist and an advertising photographer who photographs cars that aren't really there. The 13th Edition includes new profiles of sports photographer Elsa Garrison and food photographer Isa Zapata.
- NEW: The 13th Edition offers new sections on special purpose cameras and unusual cameras, as well as additional information on tethered shooting.
- UPDATED: The section on choosing a camera has been expanded.
Table of contents
- Getting Started
- Camera
- Lens
- Exposure, Sensors and Film
- Light and Color
- Developing a Film Negative
- Printing in a Darkroom
- Basics of Digital Pictures
- Image Editing
- Printing Digitally
- Organizing, Storing and Presenting Work
- Lighting
- Extending the Image
- View Camera
- Seeing Photographs
- History of Photography
Author bios
About our authors
Jim Stone is 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 6 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.