Synopses & Reviews
Exploring Color Photography is a flexible, multiple duty text that clearly and concisely instructs students in the fundamental aesthetic and technical concepts needed to create thought provoking photographs in both the digital and the analogue processes. This conceptual approach will not be rapidly outdated, nor will it get students bogged down in complex technical matters. Coverage of Light, Design, Color, Movement, Time, and Space, and Presentation is pertinent to all levels of photographic education.
A comprehensive, diverse, high-quality art program stresses a multitude of approaches through its inspiring visual examples and well-structured illustrative informational charts and tables.
Exploring Color Photography is a lavish idea book with thoughtful assignments that encourages students to be adventurous and to take responsibility for learning and working independently. The emphasis on design and postmodern theoretical concepts stresses the thought process behind the creation of successful images. Image captions give insight into how imagemakers apply technology in the service of their ideas. A Problem Solving and Writing chapter offers methods and exercises that help students learn to be visual problem solvers and to talk and write succinctly about the ideas at the foundation of their work.
From the journal Afterimage, November/December 2004, page 15:
A textbook for college-level students and serious amateurs with a historical and pragmatic approach. Theory is related to practice and it is abundantly illustrated by original works form various sources and many professional practitioners and artists. The digital section has been expanded. Hirsch accompanies hislectures with creative assignments for the reader to complete.
Synopsis
Exploring Color Photography is a flexible, multiple duty text that clearly and concisely instructs students in the fundamental aesthetic and technical concepts needed to create thought provoking photographs in both the digital and the analogue processes. This conceptual approach will not be rapidly outdated, nor will it get students bogged down in complex technical matters. Coverage of Light, Design, Color, Movement, Time, and Space, and Presentation is pertinent to all levels of photographic education.
A comprehensive, diverse, high-quality art program stresses a multitude of approaches through its inspiring visual examples and well-structured illustrative informational charts and tables.
Exploring Color Photography's thoughtful assignments encourage students to be adventurous and to take responsibility for learning and working independently. The emphasis on design and postmodern theoretical concepts stresses the thought process behind the creation of successful images. Image captions give insight into how imagemakers apply technology in the service of their ideas.A "Problem Solving and Writing" chapter offers methods and exercises that help students learn to be visual problem solvers and to talk and write succinctly about the ideas at the foundation of their work.
From the journal Afterimage, November/December 2004, page 15:
"A textbook for college-level students and serious amateurs with a historical and pragmatic approach. Theory is related to practice and it is abundantly illustrated by original works form various sources and many professional practitioners and artists. The digital section has been expanded. Hirsch accompanies his "lectures" with creative assignments for the reader to complete."
Synopsis
Exploring Color Photography is an idea book that motivates the reader's imagination by integrating accurate technical information with inspiring images, artist commentary, and broad aesthetic and philosophical structures about analog and digital imaging. This text stresses diverse working methods by treating analog, digital, and non-silver methods as equal photographic tools that are consciously applied by image makers to achieve their visual desires.
About the Author
Robert Hirsch is the Associate Director of Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY and co-director of the Visual Studies Workshop Graduate Program. He is also Associate Professor of Art at SUNY/Brockport.
Until June of 1999, he was the Director of the Center for Photographic Arts (CEPA Gallery), Rochester, NY. Hirsch is the author of Exploring Color Photography . He is a professional photographer and a regular contributor to the journal of the Society for Photographic Education.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 This is Color PhotographyChapter 1 Concepts of Color Photography
Chapter 2 A History of Color Photography
Chapter 3 Exposing the Light
Chapter 4 Filtering the Light
Chapter 5 Color Films
Chapter 6 Color Printing
Chapter 7 Digital Input
Chapter 8 Digital Output
Chapter 9 Presentation and Preservation
Chapter 10 Photographic Problem Solving and Writing
Chapter 11 Seeing the Light
Chapter 12 Color and the Visual Language of Design
Chapter 13 Working Color Strategies
Chapter 14 The Interaction of Color, Movement, SpaceandTime
Chapter 15 Thinking About Color Photography
Chapter 16 Special Materials, PracticesandProcesses
Addendum I: Safety in the Color Darkroom
Addendum II: Safety in the Digital Studio