The Photography Handbook

Terence Wright

ISBN 10: 0415115949 / ISBN 13: 9780415115940

Published by Routledge, London, 1999

About this Item

Soft cover. First edition. VG condition. Laminated cover. Ex-library. Usual stamp otherwise unmarked interior. Some marks on DJ and dust on margin.

Seller Inventory # 000500

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Photography Handbook
• Publisher: Routledge, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415115949
• ISBN 13: 9780415115940
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Soft Cover First Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

The Photography Handbook provides an introduction to the principles of photographic practice and theory and offers guidelines for the systematic study of photographic media. It explores the history of lens-based picture making and examines the mediums' characteristics, scope and limitations.

Equipping the reader with a vocabulary for photographic phenomena and helping develop visual awareness and visual literacy, The Photography Handbook will enable students to familiarize themselves with current theoretical viewpoints and to evolve critical frameworks for their own photographic practice.

The Photography Handbook includes:

* an analysis of photographic theory
* an introduction to conceptual skills necessary for photography
* the historical background and rationale for photographic representation
* the camera as a documentary tool
* interviews with editors, photographers, picture editors and readers
* the effect of new technologies on photographic practice and an exploration of the shift from analogue to digital imagery
* over seventy images.

About the Author

Terence Wright spent ten years as a photographer. He taught at the National Film and Television School, was Reader in Media Arts at the University of Luton and is presently Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House and Associate Fellow of the Reuter Programme at the University of Oxford.