Light Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers eye; an aesthetic point of view. Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use todays digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world.Explore the history; theory and methods of digital image-making. Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. Youll view; capture and think about images from a new perspective.Increase your ability to analyze; discuss and write about your own work and the images of others.Learn with exercises and assignments by leading digital educators. Innovative techniques will train your eye to make the strongest visual statement.Solve visual problems and overcome image challenges. Whether you use a digital SLR or a point-and-shoot camera; youll get new strategies to master composition; design and light. View the full range of the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists.Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer; educator; historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas; Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery; he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo; New York; and on the Visual Studies faculty of University of Buffalo/The State University of New York.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The section with Julian Casablancas is pretty funny but theres not much redeeming about this bookBy Done in 60 SecondsIm no Neil Strauss fanatic. The Game changed my life and Emergency was a very interesting read. Ive never read his rock bios or even his interviews. So ELYWYD was a miss for me. Its become a bathroom book. I was hoping for more of a narrative but there really isnt one. its just an anthology of mostly bland interviews.Maybe im of a dissenting opinion but i dont find Lady Gaga all that interesting. I think it was a mistake to put her in the book. as nobody will care or even really remember her a decade from now. On top of that. its just her backstage rambling about her family. Who cares?The section on Brian Wilson should have been interesting but its not. All we learn about him is that his wife answers for him a lot because hes done so many drugs that its impossible for him to complete a thought.For some reason. Strauss goes on for page after page about what happened to wax sculptures from a closed-down Nashville museum. Again. who cares? They ended up where youd expect them to end up. Melting in a basement somewhere.The Who? Who cares?The guy from Soul Asylum? Who REALLY cares?The section with Julian Casablancas is pretty funny but theres not much redeeming about this book. And its long. Strauss phoned it in with this one.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. So much more than a compilation of interviewsBy Erik KetzanI was pleasantly surprised by Everyone Loves You When Youre Dead (ELYWYD?). I was expecting a collection of Strauss interviews over the years. assembled. like every other such book. in some kind of mundane order-- the interview with Madonna. then Gaga. then Bowie. etc.-- I was expecting to read the interviews I was interested in and skip the ones I wasnt.Thankfully. ELYWYD is so much more than that. The book splices dozens of Strauss interviews into a narrative so that. unlike most books of interviews. you actually want to read this one cover to cover. The narrative sometimes follows a theme (contrasting different rock stars views on faith. struggles with addictions. their childhoods. battles with record companies. etc.). and other times explores a particular story (for instance why some members of Pink Floyd dont speak to one another and why Pete Townshend resisted re-forming The Who).Like most of Strauss books. this ones a page-turner. I read over 300 pages in one day. The book goes down so easy that its easy to take for granted how *big* it is. in every sense. Its the condensation of apparently a couple decades worth of rock journalism. and assembling such a crazily entertaining narrative from what must have been thousands of hours of interview tapes must have been no easy task. But as entertaining and fun as the book is. its also a deep and surprisingly illuminating exploration of fame. art. and ego. Its a major and important book on music. stardom. and. well. the times we live in.Theres a lot more to say. and Im sure many other reviewers will jump in and say it. Anyone with a serious interest in music or pop culture in general will probably devour Strauss ELYWYD.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. AWESOME!By Matt SimonsThis is the first book that Ive read by Neil Strauss but wont be my last. Hes an amazing author and interviewer. Every interview in this book is entertaining. Ive learned so much about the celebrities Ive admired my whole life by just reading these in depth raw interviews. I really like how each interview is extremely different than the last. It will go from Snoop Dogg to Johnny Cash to Britney Spears to Led Zeppelin to Madonna and so on. All the words from each interview are coming strait from the mouths of each interviewee and not manipulated and twisted by journalists and thrown together for a magazine article. Youll really get to know each and every celebrity on a personal level. I would recommend this book to anyone. Ive found a new respect for almost every person in this book. Its all very entertaining!!!
