Light and Lens

The new edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography.

Featuring artwork from the most current contemporary artists today working with the photographic medium, this fully updated edition clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of image making, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy.