Photography Reborn: Image Making in the Digital Era
Digital photography has now replaced film in nearly all its applications and has radically expanded the limits of conventional image-making. This book presents some of the best examples of contemporary art - Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Pedro Meyer, Nancy Burson and Loretta Lux. Jonathan Lipkin, who has practiced and observed the phenomenon of digital photography, chronicles its rise from an obscure scientific application, through its adaptation by pioneer computer artists, to its acceptance by the mainstream of the art world. Present throughout is the understanding that its greatest impact is on the everyday need for everyone to make images. The images range goes from the banal to the otherworldly, from MRI scans to fine art to snapshots. Lipkin explores dominant themes of the field, including the human body, identity, and the landscape.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0810992442
ISBN13:9780810992443
Release Date:November 2005
Publisher:Harry N. Abrams
Length:128 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 7.9" x 10.0"
Age Range:13 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 8 to Postsecondary
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
wonderful!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I bought this used for $3.00,for one of my photography classes, and it was in perfect condition!
A tour-de-force of What Can Be Done
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
The one thing you can say about digital photography is that it is certainly changing fast. And in this book Mr. Lipkin shows what a series of what you might call photographer/artists have done using digital images and computer manipulation of those images. In many cases, you might view these images as closer to paintings than photographs. In other cases, the images are of things that we cannot see ourselves, MRI images from inside the skull of a living person, mountains on the surface of Venus. Other images are from somewhere in the mind of the producer. These might be composite pictures of several people, these might be images that start with a photograph but which now are so distorted and colors so changed that their origin is difficult to see. This is not a book of techniques, it is a book of results, of ideas from the minds of people who are carrying digital photography into new areas.
The Digital Image
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
It is truly amazing the rate at which technology moves! Four years ago, the author thought that film photography was here to stay for a long while because digital cameras were expensive, not so good, and anyway, people would need fancy computers and printers to make accessible photos. Now easy internet business is routinely conducted with digital images. But, as Lipkin points out, in PHOTOGRAPHY REBORN, it is not only that digital photography takes the place of film. It does, but it also is a genuine new medium. This book tells how and why digital images can outmanipulate experience and reality, be a new aesthetic medium and be more subversive than film photographs in which Trotsky's image was removed from Stalin's. In fact, the book tells not only how digital photography works, but also is a great guide to what it promises to do in the future.
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