Photographic Possibilities

The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes - Third edition!

by Robert Hirsch

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Book Description

Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition is a marvelously updated resource of innovative and traditional photographic processes that imagemakers have come to trust and depend on to enhance their technical knowledge, create astonishing pictures, and raise their visual consciousness.

This concise and reliable handbook provides professional and advanced photography students with practical pathways of utilizing diverse photographic methods to produce engaging, expressive pictures from an informed aesthetic and conceptual position.

This update, in full color for this first time, offers new links between analog and digital photography by featuring clear, up-to-date, step-by-step instructions on topics ranging from making ambrotypes and digital negatives to pre-picturemaking activities that utilize a thinking system to visually realize what is in your mind's eye in an effective and safe manner.

This edition vividly showcases the thought-provoking work of over 140 international artists including Peter Beard, Dan Burkholder, Carl Chiarenza, Michael Kenna, Dinh Q. La, Joe Mills, Andrea Modica, Bea Nettles, France Scully and Mark Osterman, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Holly Roberts, Martha Rosler, Mike and Doug Starn, John Sexton, Brian Taylor, Jerry Uelsmann, and Joel Peter Witkin as well as other major and emerging talents. Image captions explain how each artist technically realized their vision and concept.

All technical information and resources have been refreshed to provide the latest data for acquiring the products needed for these processes. Above all, this comprehensive reference provides field-proven know-how, encouragement, inspiration, and a profuse compendium of promising photo-based explorations one can discover and pursue.

• Two new chapters bridging digital and analog photography, including a discussion of digital negatives.
• Explains key techniques of Photogram, Cyanotype, Photo Weaving, Gum Prints, and more.
• Completely revised to include updated resources and the newest information on where to find products or how to replace discontinued products.
• Includes breathtaking photographs displaying how artists can apply different approaches with insight and aesthetic concern.

Product details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Focal Press; 3 edition (December 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0240810139
• ISBN-13: 978-0240810133
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.8 inches