The Photography Handbook
von: Terence Wright
Routledge, 1999
ISBN: 9780203161098
Sprache: Englisch
209 Seiten, Download: 4906 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Contents | 6 | ||
| Illustrations | 8 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 10 | ||
| Introduction | 12 | ||
| The purpose of critical theory in photography | 19 | ||
| 1 Historical outline of photographic representation | 23 | ||
| Photographic realism | 24 | ||
| The camera obscura | 26 | ||
| Vision and representation | 27 | ||
| The Constructivist Theory of perception | 32 | ||
| Evolution and the camera | 36 | ||
| Twentieth-century theoretical standpoints | 38 | ||
| The ecological approach | 39 | ||
| Avant-garde practice | 43 | ||
| Photography as an entertainment medium | 44 | ||
| 2 Pre-production | 47 | ||
| The aesthetics of photography | 47 | ||
| Realism | 51 | ||
| Formalism | 53 | ||
| Expressionism | 55 | ||
| The shoot | 61 | ||
| Composition | 65 | ||
| Framing | 66 | ||
| Camera angle | 70 | ||
| The camera | 72 | ||
| 3 The photographic image | 79 | ||
| C.S.Peirce’s scheme | 81 | ||
| The nature of the photograph | 86 | ||
| Case study: I.Russell Sorgi’s photograph of a suicide | 95 | ||
| 4 Post-production | 100 | ||
| Reading contact sheets | 103 | ||
| The photographic one-liner | 107 | ||
| The role of the editor | 108 | ||
| Case study: ‘The Looking Glass War’ | 113 | ||
| Image/text relationship | 116 | ||
| Sequences | 119 | ||
| The viewer’s response to the image | 121 | ||
| The issue of the viewer responding to effect or meaning | 122 | ||
| Photo-elicitation | 125 | ||
| The Australian After 200 Years project | 126 | ||
| 5 The documentary photograph | 129 | ||
| The photograph as a document | 129 | ||
| Photo-journalism | 131 | ||
| Case study: The Guardian assignment | 134 | ||
| News photography | 139 | ||
| Feature photography | 140 | ||
| Case study: The Libyan People’s Bureau siege | 143 | ||
| 6 Photography as a cultural critique | 146 | ||
| From ‘unconcerned’ photographs to concerned photographers | 146 | ||
| The revolutionary approach to photography | 149 | ||
| Case study: independent photography—‘Outsiders Photography’ | 152 | ||
| The cultural chasm | 157 | ||
| The future of photo-journalism? | 159 | ||
| 7 Characteristics of digital photography | 162 | ||
| What is digital photography? | 163 | ||
| What are the implications of digital photography? | 165 | ||
| Changes to photography by digital imagery | 169 | ||
| Photographic manipulation | 173 | ||
| Digital photo-journalism? | 174 | ||
| Copyright | 175 | ||
| Photography on the internet | 176 | ||
| Case study: The Virtual Gallery | 178 | ||
| JPEG: a note on the digital transfer of photographs | 179 | ||
| Digital theory | 180 | ||
| 8 Conclusion | 184 | ||
| Notes | 187 | ||
| Glossary | 190 | ||
| Bibliography | 194 | ||
| Index | 202 |