Exploring Color Photography ─ From Film to Pixels

Exploring Color Photography is a flexible, multiple duty text that clearly and concisely instructs students and intermediate photographers in the fundamental aesthetic and technical concepts needed to create thought-provoking color photographs in both the digital and the analogue processes. This conceptual approach does not rapidly outdate, 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.

Robert Hirsch is a photographer, writer, curator, and the director of Light Research (lightresearch.net). His books include:Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography, Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes,and Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960. Hirsch is a former Associate Editor forDigital Camera (UK) and Photovision, and a contributor to Afterimage, exposure, Contact Sheet, The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, History of Photography, The Photographic Collector,The Photo Review, and World Book Encyclopedia as well as former Director of CEPA Gallery. Hirsch’s work has been exhibited in over 200 solo and group shows.